Cankama. Mindfulness in motion — one of the four postures the Buddha named.
The practice of bringing full awareness to each step. The Buddha's own movement — and the cure for the sleepiness of long sitting.
Vietnamese Zen master (1926-2022), poet, founder of the School of Youth for Social Service during the war, exiled for nearly forty years for his refusal to take sides, founder of Plum Village in southwest France, author of more than a hundred books. He gave the modern world the phrase "engaged Buddhism" and made mindfulness — sati — a global practice.
The continuous, non-judgmental awareness of what is arising in the present moment. The Buddha's central instruction — and the gateway through which the dharma has entered the West.
The Birth.
