Why Do Sitting Meditation When You Can Do Hiking Meditation?

[r0ckyreed]

What I’m really asking is why would you choose to sit on your ass for 10 days when you could instead be hiking in the forest?

Why would you confine yourself to sitting to meditate if hiking is also a meditation?

I hope you can understand my question. 

This is one of my main thoughts that holds me back from doing a 10 day meditation retreat. After all, I think I would get more out of a 10 day hike in Yosemite than a 10 day sit in my room. 

The longest I ever meditated was 5 hours and didn’t feel like I gained much from it. Compare that to a 5 hour hike in Yosemite, and I got so much more out of that. I had a stillness and gratitude like no other, and I got in some exercise.

I think I would have regrets of wasting my time if I did sitting meditation for 10 days. Imagine 10 days of hiking. That would be quite the adventure. Adventure is a deep value of mine. I see limitations of sitting meditation. It’s not good for your back or for your mind long term because your spirit will long for adventure. If you just sat in one place and meditated, it would be as if you were already dead. 

Edited 6 hours ago by r0ckyreed