The Morning Walk An Invitation to Freedom
®The Work of Byron Katie

This is a silent exercise. Walk in silence. 

As you walk, look at everything you see 

.as though it has no name

See it as though you have never seen it before
 and don't know what it is.

As you walk, begin to notice
what your eyes rest upon
and mindfully begin to name it
as if you were God naming things
for the very first time.

Use only first generation names,
for example, flower, sky, shoe, bird.

As you begin to notice thoughts
moving one generation away,
for example, cold morning, big dog, beautiful tree.
.Just notice. Gently stop

Be still. Notice.

Return to simple, uncomplicate
one word, first generation names
Man. Dog. Cloud.

The morning walk is meditation.
It is about noticing. It is a silent exercise.

It is so lovely to just walk and not know

 and let the world tell you what it is, 

rather than me telling each object what it is, 

to just listen and be still and let it name itself, if at all. 

But just to notice and to be so free in that 

it's as though nothing has ever been named. 

Symbolically, 

like God naming things for the very first time.

Someone had to name things, 

and someone called it tree, 

and someone else believed it, 

and we've been passing it 

on in all these languages on this planet. 

And we really, really think it's a tree, 

whereas what if you just got still, 

notice, and let it tell you.

 "So I invite you to that "don't know mind 

in your morning walk.