Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

2, (1)—(6)).
Under walking, he first examines the sila involved and
this clearly is not a part of meditation, simply a
self-examination. After this comes a sentence
mentioning "concentrate the mind on the pure activity"
and this indicates samatha practice while walking. Later
in the same passage, it is said that this mental walking
action "and all that eventuates from its activity have no
reality that can be taken hold of. When this is fully
understood..." and we have come now to a samapatti on
walking. But all this, sila, samatha, and samapatti are
included under a heading which Zhi Yi calls "stopping
(samatha) under conditions of action." Readers and
meditators should with care discriminate his advice into
these categories, so that they are not led astray by his
unfortunate tendency to mix up subjects.
"It seems," said Mr. Chen consulting his Chinese
text of Zhi Yi's book, "that something has been
changed in the translation; at any rate, my reading
of the text on walking would be like this:
'When walking in a natural manner, one goes
straight, not looking here and there, nor allowing
any delusion to arise; such is walking samatha.'"
After dealing with the practice of tranquility, Zhi Yi
applies samapatti to develop insight on each of these
actions. Standing, sitting, and reclining are treated
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