Updated 28 April 2024
Walking Meditation Cankama
BGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) teaches walking meditation cankama in its Open Meetings. BGKT Secretary Bodhicarini Upasika Jayasili Jacquetta Gomes taught walking meditation cankama at Retreats at The London Buddhist Vihara.
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Maha Thera (1927-)
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk who is the Founding Abbot of the Bhavana Society in West Virginia USA. He is an internationally respected meditation master and author.
Weblinkhttps://bhavanasociety.org/
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana was one of the Founder Spiritual Advisors of BGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) in 1991.
https://www.buddhistgroupofkendal.co.uk/spiritual-advisors-venerable-dr-balangoda-ananda-maitreya-and-venerable-henepola-gunaratana/
Teachings in Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) BGKT’s Open Meetings are based on Mindfulness in Plain English, Loving-Kindness in Plain English, Start Here, Start Now: A Short Guide to Mindfulness Meditation and The In Plain English series by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana published by Wisdom Experience. His books include explanations of walking meditation cankamana.
Weblinkhttps://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/bhante-gunaratana/
Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Wisdom Publications USA, 2009. (ISBN 9780861715299)
Chapter 4 Why Can’t We Concentrate Strongly Right Now?: Section Sloth and Torpor pages 76-77.
Chapter 9 Access Concentration: Section Choosing a Meditation Subject page 112.
https://wisdomexperience.org/product/beyond-mindfulness-plain-english/
Available on Google Books
Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Wisdom Publications USA, 20th anniversary edition 2011. (ISBN 9780861719068)
Chapter 14 Mindfulness versus Concentration: Section Walking Meditation pages159-162
https://wisdomexperience.org/product/mindfulness-plain-english/
Available on Google Books
What, Why, How: Answers to Your Questions about Buddhism, Meditation and Living Mindfully, Bhante Gunaratana, Wisdom Publications, USA, 2019. (ISBN 9781614296164)
Chapter 1 On Meditation: Section Other Meditation Postures pages 17-18.
Chapter 11 Concentration and the Jhanas: Section Walking Jhana page 165.
https://wisdomexperience.org/product/what-why-how/
BPS Buddhist Publication Society Kandy Sri Lanka
https://www.bps.lk/library.php
BPS Bodhi Leaves
https://bps.lk/library_bodhileaves.php
Bodhi Leaves 137 The Benefits of Walking Meditation by Sayadaw U Silananda
https://www.bps.lk/olib/bl/bl137_Silananda_The-Benefits-of-Walking-Meditation.html
https://bps.lk/olib/bl/bl137_Silananda_The-Benefits-of-Walking-Meditation.pdf
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/silananda/bl137.html
BPS Wheel Publications (ISSN 0068-3345)
https://www.bps.lk/library_wheels.php
https://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/_whindex.html
Wheel 464 Nyanadhammo, Ajahn Walking Meditation: Three Expositions on Walking Meditation by Ajahn Nyanadhammo, Ajahn Brahmavamso and Dharma Dorje. 2007. (ISBN 978-955-24-0300-2).
https://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh464_Nyanadhammo-etal_Walking-Meditation–Three-Expositions.html
https://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh464_Nyanadhammo-Brahm-Dorje_Walking-Meditation.pdf
Wheel 464 Walking Meditation includes a section on Discourse of Suttas
Discourses
Bhikkhus, there are these five benefits in walking meditation. What five? One endures long (walking) journeys. One endures striving (in meditation). One has little physical afflictions. What is eaten, drunk, chewed, tasted, is well digested. The concentration that has been attained by walking meditation lasts for a long time.
(AN Anguttara Nikaya 5:29)
“… Moggallana, perceiving what is before and behind, you should fix attention on walking meditation, with the sense-faculties turned inward, and the mind not going out. …”
(AN Anguttara Nikaya7:58)
“Bhikkhus, you should train thus: ’We will be devoted to wakefulness; by walking and sitting meditation during the day, … night, we will purify our minds of obstructive states.’”
(MN Majjhima Nikaya 39.10)
I left my dwelling overcome by sleepiness. Going onto the walking path, I fell down on the earth. Having rubbed my limbs and having gone onto the walking-meditation path again, I did walking meditation and became well composed in mind. Then wise attention arose in me, the danger in existence became clear, disenchantment was established, and my mind was released.
(Bhagu Thera, Theragatha 271–273)
Dictionaries
Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines. Nyanatiloka, Venerable. 2004. (5th revised edition) (Kandy, Sri Lanka, BPS Buddhist Publication Society (ISBN 955-24-0019-8) (Current ISBN 978-974-9511-30-5).
https://www.bps.lk/olib/bp/bp601s_Nyanatiloka_Buddhist-Dictonary.pdf
The Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary. Edited by T. W. Rhys Davids and William Stede (London, Luzac for the PTS Pali Text Society). (ISBN: 978-0-86013-503-6).
1921-1925 edition available online via the Pali Text Society website
https://palitextsociety.org/product/pali-english-dictionary/
Suttas and Translations
Suttas and translations are available on the Access to Insight, dhammatalks.org and Sutta Central websites.
Access to Insight https://www.accesstoinsight.org/
dhammatalks.org https://www.dhammatalks.org/ https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/
Sutta Central https://suttacentral.net/?lang=en
Suttas
AN Anguttara Nikaya 5.29
Cankama Sutta: Walking, translated from the Pali by Aggacitta Bhikkhu & Kumara Bhikkhu
Available on Access to Insight website
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.029.agku.html
AN Anguttara Nikaya 5.29
Walking Meditation Cankama Sutta
Bhikkhu Bodhi Translation
https://suttacentral.net/an5.29/en/bodhi?reference=none&highlight=false
AN Anguttara Nikaya 5.29
Walking Meditation Cankama Sutta
Bhikkhu Sujato Translation
https://suttacentral.net/an5.29/en/sujato?layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin
SN Samyutta Nikaya 14.15
Walking Together
Bhikkhu Sujato Translation
https://suttacentral.net/sn14.15/en/sujato?layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin