I was really interested, so I searched the website of "Justice Meditation" according to the information I shared, and read the information one by one, from the historical context to the knowledge of meditation guidance, as well as the audio-visual materials of teacher Hong's lectures. After reading these materials, I decided to sign up.
The trip in April is quite busy. Two days before I left Chengdu, I just finished a week-long business trip in Guizhou. With rich feelings and tired body that have not yet settled, I embarked on a long-awaited journey of meditation. Just because I was sleepy, I jumped on the bus from the airport and began to sleep until my brother woke me up and said,' Here we are.' The green eyes of Qingcheng Mountain caught my eye.
The wind in the mountains is extremely cool just to wake up. The architecture of Zhao Pu Temple is antique and unique, giving people a sense of tranquility and loftiness. I looked around and saw an old man with silver hair getting off a car in front of me. When I looked closely, I saw that he was full of energy and his eyes were burning. Somehow, I felt respect in my heart, just like the first time I saw the cover photos of Krishnamurti or Gurdjieff on the bookshelves. I didn't know who they were at that time. I just glanced at them and started reading their books. Well, I also have eye contact with Mr. Hong.
Cut the gossip and enter our meditation schedule. This meditation will last for 5 days and there will be a strict schedule every day. Several brothers who have been meditating for many years volunteered to arrange everyone's schedule activities in an orderly way, which will also help guide Taoist friends who participated in meditation for the first time. Get up at 4:40 every morning and press 12 incense to arrange the schedule activities from 5 am to 22 pm, where 1 1 incense is the meditation time, and each incense column lasts for 45 minutes; It was another incense, and teacher Hong gave you a lecture that afternoon. Every Taoist friend will get a handout when reporting, which is an excerpt from the Yongping Guangti Law written by Zen Master Daochang Yuan. Teacher Hong will teach Buddhism in combination with the text. Daoyuan Zen Master is Cao Dongzong, the founder of Japanese Buddhism. In the Song Dynasty, he came to China to study Buddhism, visited famous teachers all over the world, and finally got along with Zen master Rujing at Tiantai Temple in Zhejiang. After returning to Japan, he went through hardships to promote Buddhism in Cao Dongzong, and was honored as the great-grandfather of Cao Dongzong in Japan by later generations. It is through him that the Buddhism of "mindfulness" can be passed down and will not be lost.
At four o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the temple was hidden in the jungle of the mountains, and then the long morning bell rang in the night, and a new day began in the temple. I got up in the squatter with other Taoist friends and walked to the meditation hall. Walking in a quiet and cool night wrapped in a coat, you can see the stars when you look up, and several loud peacocks crow from the forest. The air is filled with the smell of incense ashes, and the chanting of monks and nuns and the music of musical instruments surround the whole temple, which is quieter and makes people forget all popular concepts.
The meditation hall is very large, with 150 monks. After a sound of exhaustion, we began to meditate for a beautiful time. As a beginner, I think the first three days of adaptation are the most difficult. After sitting for a while, I began to feel groggy and sleepy, and unconsciously sat out of shape. At this time, there is always a brother patrolling the hall to help me straighten up gently and then walk away quietly. So I took a few deep breaths, awakened my consciousness and re-perceived the physical feeling of sitting posture. After a while, I either feel pain in my waist and legs, want to exercise and loosen my legs. Either the pain in a certain part of the body is unbearable and I really want to scratch it. At this time, my thoughts are always constant, and I am quite anxious to wait for the sound to end, but the more so, the more I feel: Why not end it?
Fortunately, Dr. Luo enlightened and guided the essentials of meditation during meditation. What is meditation? He said that this is the wonderful method of the Buddha, and there is no other way, that is, sitting on the leg truthfully. Meditation means that your body is sitting in the present. No one "I" is meditating. Meditation is meditation. Without me, how can there be "I hurt", "I itch" and "I want to move"? Pain itself is a normal physiological response. Only when I watch it together will you find it unbearable. Just sit straight, thinking up and down, without a "I" following. Buddha's Word: But this body is synthesized in many ways. When it started, it was just law, and when it was destroyed, it was just law. When will this rule start, don't say I will start; As soon as this law died, I died without saying anything. Think before and after, never think of each other. Before law, after law, law is not relative. This is "just meditation".
Two days before meditation, I just survived. It was not until the third day that I experienced the local scenery (that is, what it looks like now) mentioned by Teacher Hong and Dr. Luo in meditation. On this day, my leg still hurts unbearable. I just feel the ups and downs of my body and mind. I no longer want to escape the pain, but simply feel and accept it. In this experience, there seems to be no time. I no longer care when the end of the sound rings, only care about the current breath and breath. This experience is really beautiful!
During the five days of meditation, what I look forward to most every day is listening to Mr. Hong's lecture. Listening to him is really a spiritual enjoyment. "Yongping Cantonese" is completely ancient Chinese, and I really don't understand it. However, after the teacher took a seat, he chose a paragraph to say "the whole body is natural." Who is messing up this place? Please be friendly. Why are you looking for it? More than one sentence. How to work three times? Give up your lunch. Turn over and show up. It is. After Lingshan broke his face. Four or seven didn't add a little. Since Shaolin pulled out the pulp. What's the difference between two and three? ...... "Then, the teacher slowly unfolded and explained the story from Lingshan to 4,728 founders of Buddhism, even Shaolin, the founder of Buddhism, who was face to face. There are several Zen cases interspersed in the middle, which is as natural as telling the story of the next-door neighbor. There is only one incense time in each class, and we are still unfinished. My yoga instructor and fellow initiates have an incisive comment on Mr. Hong's lecture: thoughts together, like running water, never stop. I feel the same way myself, and his speech is like running water, straight into my heart.
I was quite surprised by Mr. Hong's Buddhist attainments. Later, I heard from other Taoist friends that Mr. Hong was a proud disciple of Mr. Nan. Later, after he came into contact with Cao Dongzong Buddhism in Japan, he vowed to carry forward the "Zhengchan" Buddhism throughout his life. That being the case, it is not surprising.
It has been more than eight months since this meditation. I am very grateful to all the fellow initiates, as well as to the coach and teacher Hong who introduced me to meditation. I have been meditating for eight months. Sometimes I can't sit for more than ten minutes, sometimes I sit for two incense sticks, and occasionally I am busy with work, but I always remind myself: just meditate!
Looking back at my own state, meditation alone has a subtle influence on me. I don't know when I began to accept my physical and mental feelings more and more, and strive to respond positively with actions and constantly expand my horizons. I don't know when I started, but I became more and more resistant to outside troubles. I learned not to fight, not to follow, not to escape, not to try to suppress external things when I was in high spirits. I just make myself aware and connected with the present.
This year, I have lived a full life. In addition to meditation, I also participated in the best Buddhist education course in Thailand, and experienced the growth power brought by "personal transformation" in my own life; I met my friends in the Free Mind Reading Club, read the Book of Chakras and Tarot Meditation together, and shared the contents of Hu Yinmeng's spiritual growth.
These karma finally made me say in the last days of 20 16: time has passed, but I feel at ease! 20 17, continue to "just meditate", continue to read and write, and let strength grow in silence! Grateful!