The tricks of meditation and chanting Buddha can be recited in various forms, whether walking, living, sitting or lying down. Among them, meditation is more common and it is easier to absorb the body and mind. Meditation and chanting Buddha itself is a way to relax yourself. The following are meditation and meditation tips.

The secret of meditation 1 the secret of meditation.

Different methods have different requirements for meditation, and Buddhism requires "forgetting yourself". So what are the secrets of meditation and meditation?

1, virtue comes first.

People who meditate and recite Buddha should pay attention to their moral cultivation at ordinary times, not because they are worried that you will hurt others by learning advanced skills, but because your moral character is not enough and you can't cultivate advanced kung fu at all. Meditation is also a profound kung fu. If you don't pay attention to moral cultivation, you can't get yourself into meditation.

2, the heart of a child

When you meditate and recite Buddha, you must not concentrate, get rid of other thoughts and clean your mind, so that you can quickly enter the meditation state. In ordinary life, we should constantly look for our own delusions and persistence, and not be driven by various external "phases"; When your mind is clean, you can only settle down through meditation and chanting Buddha. If you don't have a clean heart, you can't settle down by meditating and chanting Buddha for a long time. Only by diluting everything in life and letting nature take its course, can the mind gradually become clean, and when you meditate and recite Buddha, you can really settle down as soon as you sit down.

Meditation and the Secret of Meditation 2 What does meditation mean?

Meditate and sit with your fingers crossed to calm your mind. It is a method of practicing meditation in Buddhism and Taoism, that is, sitting with legs in a certain posture and hands in a certain position. Meditation in Buddhism is called "meditation" or "meditation". Meditation can not only improve health and prolong life, but also increase wisdom.

Meditation has many levels. Meditation for ordinary people is called meditation. The purpose is health preservation, which can pay attention to physical and mental health and prolong life. Indian yogis meditate for meditation. Meditation can include four meditations, eight meditations and nine meditations. Zen is also meditation, the purpose is to blindly participate in meditation with a safe sitting posture.

Meditation is about slow work and meticulous work, perseverance, and regular meditation every day, which becomes a habit and a part of daily life. Over time, there will be gains. At that level, if you don't meditate for a day, you will feel that life is at a loss. People who have not experienced long-term meditation can hardly appreciate the great difference between chaotic thoughts and orderly thoughts.

If you feel that time passes slowly during meditation, it is because you are fidgeting and uncomfortable. There is an absolute relationship between time and mood. If the heart can't adapt, it feels long, and if the heart can adapt, it feels short. Therefore, according to Buddhist scriptures, the time in hell is particularly long, and the time in heaven is particularly short. Note that when you can't adapt, you need to adjust to comfort.

The benefits of meditation

Meditation has three functions: first, to achieve physical and mental balance, second, to achieve spiritual stability, and third, to achieve the development of wisdom and compassion.

Physical and mental balance: physical balance and psychological balance, that is, physical and mental health. If a person's body is as strong as a buffalo and his mind is as fragile as a mouse, he can't be said to be healthy.

Spiritual stability: the meaning of spirit is difficult to understand. It is neither psychological nor physical, but related to body and mind. It will produce invisible functions, which will be manifested in tangible behaviors.

What is the development of wisdom and compassion? If you have the experience of unity of body and mind and your own experience of unity with the universe, the spirit can be unified. If we go beyond spiritual and physical persistence, we will have wisdom and compassion to develop. Wisdom here is neither knowledge nor learning, but absolute determination.

Gestures and methods of meditation

warm-up

Don't meditate before doing any activities after getting up in the morning. Before meditation, you should do a simple warm-up exercise to soften your bones and muscles.

1. Twist handshaking: Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, shake hands with your waist, keep your feet still, turn your body back to the right as far as possible, hit your right shoulder with your left palm, then turn left and right, do the same action, and swing left and right ten times.

2. Waist exercise: put your hands on your waist and open your eyes. First, turn the upper body and waist clockwise, then turn counterclockwise for ten times each. 3. Twist your waist and draw a circle: keep your hands straight and hold high, rotate your body 360 degrees, clockwise and counterclockwise for ten times each.

4. Bend your knees: While swinging your hands back and forth, put your arms as flat as possible, and swing your feet and hands in the same position for a hundred times.

5, the sky touches the ground: hands crossed, palms outward, palms up, hands raised, heels raised at the same time, the higher the better. Then bend down and let your palms touch the ground.

6. Knee movement: put your feet together for half a squat, put your hands on your knees and turn clockwise for ten times, then turn counterclockwise for ten times; Finally, stand up and turn your right ankle and left ankle ten times each. The number of times can be increased or decreased according to your judgment.

(2) Head movement

Before each meditation, whether or not you do the above warm-up exercise, you need to do the following head movements.

After sitting on the futon, first put your hands flat on your left and right knees, sit up straight, and then do the four steps of head movement: 1. Keep your head down and then lean back; Head to the right, then to the left; 3. Turn your head to the right, then turn to the left; Turn your head clockwise, forward, right, up and left, then counterclockwise, forward, left, up and right. Do each step three times to keep your body still and relax your muscles and nerves. Move slowly and gently, open your eyes and breathe naturally. The purpose of head movement is to reduce the blood in the head and reduce the motivation of thought fluctuation; Let your mind become fresh and quiet.

After the head movement, put the left and right palms on the abdomen (about three fingers below the umbilicus), touch the thumbs of both hands to form an inverted triangle, take a deep breath, then slowly exhale and bend over, press the palms on the lower abdomen to help exhale air until the air is completely exhaled, and take three deep breaths continuously. The purpose of deep breathing is to eliminate the polluted air in the body, exchange oxygen for fresh air, and make the blood circulation smooth.

(3) Seven-legged sitting method

When you are ready, you can start meditation. The orthodox method of meditation is seven-legged meditation. The so-called seven-legged sitting method is:

1. Sit on your feet-there are two types:

(1) Sitting with your left foot down, your right foot on your left thigh, and then your left foot on your right thigh is called wishful sitting.

(2) Don't move king kong sit-put your right foot down, your left foot on your right thigh, and then your right foot on your left thigh. This is called Don't move king kong sit. These two sitting postures are difficult for the elderly and beginners.

Beginners who can't sit on two boards can sit on a single board with one foot on the other thigh. Either the left foot is under the right calf or the right foot is under the left calf.

For those who can't serve double or single dishes, you can also use a simpler sitting method at first. For example:

(1) Straddle seat-Put your feet on the ground, contract inward, put your feet up, and put them under two calves or even two thighs.

⑵ Sit across the crane-kneel down and put the cushion under the moustache, such as riding on the crane's back, with your thumbs overlapping up and down and your hips on the cushion under the moustache.

(3) God sitting-sitting with his left foot like a squat, bending inward and putting it in front; The other leg is bent outward and put behind your back. When Buddhists spread to the south, they often used this formula when they smelled Buddhism on the floor, even when they meditated in the Zen temple, and they also used this formula when they first meditated.

(4) Sit comfortably-this style imitates the sitting posture of the Bodhisattva before coming down to earth. His left foot sits like a squat, bending inward, with his heel in front of his perineum, his right foot upright, his knees bent on his right chest, his left and right hands evenly placed on his left and right knees, or folded on his vertical knees.

5] Sitting posture is dangerous-all the above sitting postures are based on the floor. This type is sitting on a knee-high chair or bench with feet flat on the ground and legs vertical. The distance between your knees should allow you to punch, and your back should not rely on anything. Just sit on your hips and hang your thighs at right angles to your calves.

The above sitting method is only slightly different in sitting posture and hand posture, and others still adopt the standard stipulated by the seven-brace sitting method. The most effective and lasting sitting posture is still the most difficult sitting posture. Therefore, even if beginners can't double set, at least they should practice more and get used to single set.

2. The back is vertical-after the legs are folded, stand up, don't stand up, head is vertical, chin is adducted, and Adam's apple is pressed down.

3. The hand knot method defines the seal-the two hands are tied into a circle, the right hand is down, the left hand is up, and the two thumbs are gently connected to form a circle and gently placed on the leg of the lower epiphysis of the abdomen.

4. Relax your shoulders-relax the muscles of your shoulders and feel that you have no shoulders, no arms and no hands.

5. Gently lick the upper jaw with the tip of the tongue-lick the tip of the tongue on the salivary glands of the gums on the front teeth. Do not use force. If there is saliva, swallow it slowly.

Shut your mouth-just snore at any time, and don't open your mouth to breathe unless you have a nasal illness.

⒎ Open and close your eyes slightly and separate them at two points. Look at a point on the ground two or three feet in front of you, not to see anything, just because your eyes are wide open and your heart is easily scattered; It's easy to get dizzy when you close your eyes. If you feel tired after opening your eyes for a long time, you might as well close your eyes for a while.

(4) relax

Generally, the round futon should not be full, but one-half or one-third according to personal circumstances, which is conducive to straightening the waist; You can put a square pad with moderate hardness under your legs. When you meditate, you should relax completely, and try not to wear necklaces, watches or glasses on your body. It's best to wear loose clothes and relax your belt, so that your body is completely stress-free.

After everyone sat down, they began to relax, telling themselves in turn to relax their heads, eyeballs, facial muscles, neck, shoulders, arms, lower back, lower abdomen and legs, focusing on their hips and sinking their breath into their abdomen. Any part of the body, even the skin, should be completely relaxed. As long as there is pressure, you will be nervous, which will affect the nervous system and even the digestive and secretory systems.

After the body is completely relaxed, open your eyes slightly for about two or three minutes. Don't exert yourself, don't think about anything, relax your facial muscles, smile slightly, and have a sense of joy in your heart. Tongue in upper and lower jaw, chin retracted, lumbar spine straight. Hands are tied under the umbilicus, and the left palm, right palm and hands are connected with two thumbs. After that, I stopped paying attention to my body, focused on my hips and cushions, and began to pay attention to my breathing. At this time, give your body to the futon and your heart to the method.

If you feel sleepy or groggy, keep your eyes open and wait until you feel better. Paying attention to breathing is a very boring thing, and it is easy to get dizzy or paranoid, and my mind is full of delusions. Pay attention to class when you are in class, eat when you are eating, sleep when you are sleeping, and concentrate on everything.

(5) Count your breath.

Pay attention to breathing for a long time, it may be stuffy. Now I'll teach you another method: 1. Count your breath (count your breath) and 1. Say Buddha's name. These methods are also aimed at achieving the purpose of uselessness and concentration.

Practice breathing first and pay attention to the difference between breathing. The average person has a long breathing time and a short income time. So when we count breaths, we only count breaths, regardless of income. Every time we exhale, we will count a number. When we inhale, we still stay at that number, and when we exhale in the next breath, we change the next number.

The average person breathes about fourteen to sixteen times a minute. You can't deliberately control your breathing, or your chest will feel uncomfortable.

When you have experience in meditation, your breathing will naturally slow down gradually to four or five times a minute, which is already a state of concentration. Generally, I breathe ten times a minute, and my heart is quite stable.

If you are short of breath, you must be bored, scared, impatient and excited. Breathing is closely related to pulse. If there is a problem with breathing, there will be a problem with pulse. If your pulse is fast, there must be something wrong with your breathing, so you should breathe in the usual way.

The way to calculate interest is to count a number every chance, from one to ten, and then back to counting dozens again and again, again and again. When counting interest, once you have delusions or distractions, you have to count it again in the middle, so you often can't count from one to ten smoothly, or you don't count to ten, or you count too much without realizing it. You may feel fresh at first, but you will get bored after a while, so practice keeping every number fresh with every breath.

(6) Count the names of Buddha.

Some people don't breathe, they breathe normally. Once they count their breathing, their breathing becomes short and unnatural. If so, try the method of chanting Buddha, that is, chanting the name of Buddha Amitabha or Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Besides simply reciting Buddha's name, we can also recite Buddha's name and count it, that is, recite Buddha's name or Guanyin Bodhisattva's name and count it. How to count amitabha I and amitabha II ... also from one to ten, and so on. Its purpose is to concentrate people's thoughts.

The method of chanting and counting has nothing to do with breathing. It doesn't need to cooperate with breathing, neither too fast nor too slow. It is easy to count a number in one sentence, then clearly know the existence of this number, and then continue to read the second number in the second sentence, clearly focusing on the counted number, which is the same as counting every promise.

You can choose a method that suits you, such as random method, interest-bearing method, chanting Buddha, counting Buddha, etc., but it is best to choose only one method, instead of using one method at a time and another method at a time, and concentrate on adjusting your mentality in the same way.

(7) Self-alignment method

Adjusting the body, adjusting the air and adjusting the heart is the adjustment. The movements and postures during meditation are related to physical adjustment; Pranayama is related to inhalation and exhalation. Pay attention to inhale and exhale, and your heart will naturally calm down. Only when the heart is connected can the heart be calm, and all kinds of thoughts, psychological activities and impulses will naturally stabilize, so as to adjust the breath and heart.

Buddhist chanting has nothing to do with breathing, but regulating the heart. I am very confused, I can recite Buddha in a hurry, and my mood is quite calm. I should recite Buddha slowly. The reason why chanting Buddha comes back from one to ten is to prevent it from becoming a mechanical counting, that is, the mouth is counting and the brain is thinking, but the counting is still very good. We can count from childhood, which is why some people accidentally count to one hundred or two hundred, and find it easier to count to two hundred than to count to ten.

It is troublesome to look back every ten numbers, but our purpose is not to count, but to keep our thoughts focused on one point at any time and place, and not to leave this range. In other words, the mind will never leave our hard work. Counting breath is inseparable from the feeling of breathing in and out, and chanting Buddha is inseparable from the name of Buddha, that is, taking your heart back and taking it at one point. Its purpose is to realize the functions of self-understanding, self-knowledge and self-affirmation. If you are not clear about your psychological activities, you don't know enough about yourself; The deeper you know yourself, the stronger your confidence in yourself and the stronger your ability to play. The less you know about yourself, the easier it is to do something wrong and say something wrong. That's because you can't help thinking, talking nonsense and acting rashly. All these show that you don't know yourself, so you can't master yourself.

To avoid these involuntary phenomena, we must know ourselves, know ourselves and affirm ourselves. The more you know yourself, the less chance you have to make mistakes. On the contrary, your thinking, judgment, words and deeds will be more correct. When we can master our own thoughts, our confidence in ourselves will be strengthened, and we can achieve the goal of self-cognition and self-growth from self-knowledge.

(8) Full body massage before sitting up

After meditation, before you sit up (decide), your heart should move first, tell yourself that you are going to sit up, then slowly shake your body, put your hands together, put your hands on your knees, and shake your body and every joint to a great extent; Let go of your legs and do a full-body massage.

The order of massage is to rub the palm first, gently massage the eyes with the back of the thumb, and press the eyeball with the palm of the hot palm; Then massage the face, forehead, back neck, ears, shoulders, arms, back of hand, chest, abdomen, back, waist, especially axillary lymph nodes of both arms, lower back kidney and Ming gate. More massage is good for health. Next, the right thigh, knee and calf, the left thigh, knee and calf, gently turn the ankle. For those who meditate, the back is very important, so we should massage more.

When massaging the calf, press Zusanli from the third finger under the kneecap all the way down, which will be a little painful, but it will regulate the gastrointestinal tract.

When life and work are stressful, the internal heat is high, the liver fire rises, and constipation is easy. On the left and right fingers of the navel, gently press down with two or three fingers, and press it three or five times to have an effect. Obstruction of stool is more uncomfortable than holding your breath, which will also affect your interest in meditation.

This kind of self-massage exercise can completely eliminate the fatigue of beginners in meditation and make them feel soft, warm and comfortable physically and mentally. When you massage, you must concentrate on your palm or fingers. The whole massage can be finished in about fifteen minutes, and it can be finished in about three or five minutes if it is simpler. In addition to meditation, when you feel tired or sleepy, you can do a full-body massage, which is very effective in eliminating fatigue.

Matters needing attention in meditation

1, when the brain is clear and the physical strength is abundant, it is most suitable for meditation. It is best to meditate at a fixed time every day, such as getting up early in the morning and sitting once before taking a bath at night, for at least 15 to 20 minutes each time, preferably for half an hour to an hour or two.

It is better to drink some warm water and sit down after brushing your teeth and washing your face in the morning. If you feel tired, there is no need to drink a cup of coffee to refresh yourself. There are no strict restrictions, but don't drink too strong coffee, which will excite your heart and brain and make it difficult to settle down.

People who eat too much, get drunk, are too tired, have done strenuous exercise or just had sex are in a state of physical and mental fatigue and should not be seated.

There has always been a saying that it is not appropriate to meditate in the afternoon and noon, but the living habits of modern people are different from those in the past. If you only have time to meditate in the afternoon and noon, it is ok as long as you don't sit for too long.

Learn to relax, practice using your brain without eyes at any time, and relax your eyes and abdomen by methods, which can save a lot of energy. In addition, we should pay attention to the balance of nutrition, so as to achieve "open source and reduce expenditure".

6. Sufficient energy can make all the pipes in our body have no resistance, the pulse can be smooth, and so can the digestive system, circulatory system and nervous system. We use meditation and exercise to achieve this goal, which belongs to fitness (body regulation).

When you meditate, your waist is straight. Sitting for a long time will slowly bend over. If you don't bend badly, you don't need to adjust your posture deliberately, which will make you nervous. When the air is ventilated, the back will straighten itself, which is completely driven by air, not artificially manipulated. This is a very wonderful phenomenon.

8. People who don't meditate often can cross their legs. If you are thin, your legs will hurt when you eat double dishes; If you are fat, the leg meat of your legs will make your legs uneven and uncomfortable, and the single plate is more stable.