Vipassana Thai-Eng

20 7 Vipassānā Meditation
lift your foot forward and touch down on the left-hand side.
And when you turn to the right-hand side, your attention has to
follow all the kinds of movements and even the turning from
the left to the right. And if you want to turn, you have to turn
your attention to wanting. If there is itching, you have to say
that there is itching. In the walking state Mahasi Sayadaw
emphasizes that your awareness, your attention, should be
in continue process. Otherwise there would not be samādi
understood as meditative concentration.
So Samādi is a continuity of your attention to all activities
either internal (mental activity) or external (bodily activity).
Continuity must be there in your attention and become powerful
samādi. Samādi is the outcome of samatha-bhāvāna.
Samatha-bhāvāna is needed wherever vipassāna-bhāvāna is
to be developed.
Why do I mention this? What I say is suitable to the Thai
temperament. You can look into the history of meditation
practice in Thailand since the Sukhothai period. The record
of the history of Thai meditation practice is available today,
for example, the record written by Sangharaja, the former