From

Entering the Second Attention

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jjudd/energy/partIII/sorcererway/secattn.htm

5. THE RIGHT WAY OF WALKING

WHAT IS THE RIGHT WAY OF WALKING?

THE RIGHT WAY OF WALKING IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO STOP THE
INTERNAL DIALOGUE
(the right way of walking) is the most effective way to stop your internal dialogue.
TOP,230.

IT ALSO TRAINS YOUR ATTENTION

His method was effective on two counts. It allowed me to stop my internal dialogue
after years of trying, and it trained my attention. By forcing me to concentrate on the
peripheral view, DJ reinforced my capacity to concentrate for long periods of time on
one single activity. EG,135,136

WHY IS THE RIGHT WAY OF WALKING SO EFFECTIVE?

IT SATURATES THE TONAL WITH SO MUCH INFORMATION IT CANNOT

MAINTAIN A WORLD AND THUS BECOMES SILENT
Walking in that specific manner saturates the tonal..it floods it. ..the attention of the
tonal has to be placed on its creations..it is the attention that creates the order of the
world in the first place; so, the tonal must be attentive to the elements of its world in
order to maintain it, and must, above all, uphold the view of the world as internal
dialogue. TOP,230.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO DO THE TECHNIQUE

To teach me how to master it, he used to make me walk for miles with my eyes
held fixed and out of focus at a level just above the horizon so as to emphasize
the peripheral view. EG,135,136. His recommendation had been to not look at
anything directly but, by slightly crossing the eyes, to keep a peripheral view
of everything that presented itself to my eyes.... if one kept one's unfocused
eyes at a point just above the horizon, it was possible to notice, at once,
everything in almost the 180 degree range in front of one's eyes. He assured
me that that exercise was the only way of shutting off the internal dialogue
TOP,19. appropriate form of walking...I had to curl my fingers gently as I walked so I
would keep my attention on the trail and the surroundings. He claimed that my
ordinary way of walking was debilitating and that one should never carry anything in
the hands. JTI,19...his idea was that by forcing the hands into a specific position one
was capable of greater stamina and greater awareness. JTI,19.
The right way of walking was a subterfuge. The warrior, first by curling his
fingers, drew attention to the arms; and then by looking, without focusing his
eyes, at any point directly in front of him on the arc that started at the tip of his
feet and ended above the horizon, he literally flooded his tonal with
information. The tonal without its one-to-one relation with the elements of its
description, was incapable of talking to itself and thus one became silent.
TOP,230..the position of the fingers did not matter at all, that the only
consideration was to draw attention to the arms by clasping the fingers in
various unaccustomed ways, and that the important thing was the manner in
which the eyes by being kept unfocused, detected an enormous number of
features of the world without being clear about them. He added that the eyes in
that state were capable of picking out details which were too fleeting for normal
vision... TOP,230.
it was obvious to me that the effect DJ had been after in making them gaze was to
teach them to stop the internal dialogue.La Gorda had expressed it as quieting down
the thoughts. DJ had taught me to do the very same thing, although he had made
me follow the opposite path; instead of teaching to focus my view, as gazers did, he
taught me to open it, to flood my awareness by not focusing my sight on anything. I
had to sort of feel with my eyes everything in the 180-degree range in front of me,
while I kept my eyes unfocused just above the line of the horizon. SRP,267.

I told DJ that I had practised the technique for years without noticing any change...
one day I had just walked for about ten minutes without having said a single word to
myself. TOP,19