Start with silence, first hunger strike, and eat spicy food. The meat wrapped in fishy smell is heavy and turbid, and the food will be very thick and difficult to subdue. Spicy food is frivolous by nature, and food will be scattered rather than gathered. Be reasonable, fast and spicy, and cook vegetarian meals in order to get rid of the original flavor. If you don't eat too much, it will hurt your spirit. Hunger will hurt you if you don't eat too much. The way to eat this section is indispensable.
2. Guan Liu.
When sitting still, the heart is trembling and qi is scattered. If you cultivate a little energy, you will not only miss the life of husband and wife, but also miss the six roots. Too many eyes is a kind of "leakage", too many ears is a kind of "leakage", and too many mouths is a kind of "leakage"! All six will leak. Why do you emphasize that the first step of a practitioner is to combine six pillars? When the six roots are closed, the spirit will automatically enter the second pulse of Ren Du and return to the middle pulse.
Step 3 smile.
Smile while meditating, and you can relax into silence.
4. Meditate and count your breath
When you sit still and think, you can count your breath intently, not your income, but your achievements. When you calculate your achievements, you put everything, including your own life, all your troubles and diseases, together with your achievements. Especially if you are sick with a cold, or have tumors or cancers in your body, let it go out with you, and it will be empty when you go out. Count your breath like this, and your body will relax immediately.
In the Yin Fu Jing of Taoism, there is an important formula-"controlling birds in qi". In other words, the yogi is full of delusions, and his thoughts can't be single-minded, because your qi is dispersed and your qi is disordered. Therefore, meditation advocates practicing qi first, and the yogi holds his breath with his mind to adjust his breath smoothly, so that his heart will naturally not disperse again. Many people in the society have practiced for many years, but their bodies often collapse. The reason is that the breath in their bodies has not been adjusted well. Taoism also has a wise saying: "Heaven and earth are Xuanzhu, and qi is the root." We can see the importance of qi from this sentence. No matter how strong the body is, if the breath in the body is not harmonious, it is a serious illness. It can be said that with the cooperation of body and mind, the breath can have 10 thousand changes.
The first one: count from one to ten, then count backwards from ten to one, and so on, so that you only have numbers when you breathe, and there are no other distractions. ( 1、2、3...... 10、9、8 ......2、 1......)。
The second type: count from one to two ... and at the end, there are no distractions and delusions, and there are no mistakes in the numbers. Mind and breath are the first successes. ( 1、2、3、4......99、 100...... 1、2、3、...99、 100)。
The heart should not enter the body with the breath, nor should it leave the body with the breath. It should only be aware of breathing in the area around the nose.
The process of counting, breathing and the feeling of strong wind are divided into three levels: wind → breathing → breath. At the beginning, breathing heavily is called wind. After calming down, breathing becomes thinner, which is called qi. Furthermore, both body and mind are quiet. Only when you feel your inner breath, you can't hear the sound of breathing. This is breathing. When you get to the rest, don't count, that is, enter. When you sit still for a few breaths, breathe naturally, relax your body and turn your ears to listen to your breathing. If you can't hear breathing when repairing in a noisy place, you should listen by feeling.
5. Others
Seating: If tatami is used as futon, it should be divided into upper and lower seats. Generally, the feet are placed in the lower seat and the buttocks are placed in the upper seat. Its dimensions: the lower seat is 2*2 feet square, the upper seat 1*2 feet, and the upper seat height 1.5 inches. If only the meditation person's thighs are too fat or his feet are stiff, when the height of the seat is not enough, his feet can't be put down during meditation, and there will be a phenomenon of leaning back and forth, so people should raise the cushion to the most comfortable height. After a long effort, the meditator's feet have softened, and then the height of the seat is reduced to about 1.5 inch. When sitting on a tatami futon, you can only sit on one third of the surface, which makes it easier to straighten your spine.
Material: There is one thing in the world, and so is the material of meditation futon. Some will accumulate gas, others will consume gas or recruit people. Materials that help people accumulate qi include straw, coconut fiber, tea, herbs, herbs and shaved wood. There are plastics, rubber, PVC, rattan, sponge, foam and so on that consume or absorb gas. These materials will absorb gas.
Try it if you don't believe me: let the practitioner lift the heavy object horizontally with one hand, and then cover the head with a plastic sheet to isolate the passage of qi between the head and the void. At this time, the practitioner's hands are asked to lift heavy objects by hand, but it seems that they can't lift them horizontally or for a long time.
Foot towel: There will be joint problems when you meditate for a long time, so be sure to cover your knees with a foot towel. Even if you are used to meditation, watching TV or talking to people, cover your knees with a foot towel. At the beginning of meditation, due to the increase of metabolism, the body temperature will rise, and the gap with room temperature will increase. Suppose the room temperature is 22.5 degrees Celsius and the body temperature is 36.5 degrees in winter. If the body temperature rises as high as 1 during meditation, the temperature difference will change from 14 to 15, so the body will feel a little cold. If the room temperature is 33 and the body temperature is 36.5 in summer, the body temperature will rise by 1 during meditation, and the temperature difference will increase from 3.5 to 4.5. So when you meditate, the surrounding temperature will drop, and you won't be bored with meditation because of the hot summer. It will be more comfortable to sit for a while, because the temperature difference will increase.
Coat and thick clothes: prepare a coat and put it next to the seat during spring and autumn meditation. Wash your face after meditation and put it on before going to the next seat to avoid catching a cold. Wear clothes to protect yourself according to room temperature in winter. If the cold current comes, you should wear thick clothes to meditate. One principle is that when you meditate, don't feel cold on your back. If this happens, put on more clothes and sit on it to avoid catching cold.
Towel: prepare a towel in summer and put it next to the meditation seat. Before doing exercises after meditation, wipe your sweat with a towel before doing exercises. Remember, don't wipe your sweat when you meditate. Meditation is training your concentration. You should let the sweat flow naturally and ignore it.
Clothing: wear long-sleeved clothes when meditating, and pay attention to solemnity. Because during meditation, bodhisattvas and dharma protectors who are close to you may come to protect you, and it is more polite to dress neatly or show respect. Pants worn during meditation should be loose, preferably elastic. Too tight will make qi stagnate, so women should not wear tight pants when meditating.
Location: The meditation place should be selected. Good places include Buddhist temples, study rooms and single bedrooms. Don't blow the wind (thief wind) directly on your body in the meditation place, or you will catch a cold easily. Because of the earth's magnetic field, it is best to sleep in the east-west direction, not the north-south direction. But there is no obstacle to meditation. Just face the Buddha statue or face the Buddha statue sideways. In your own room, it is advisable to face the west or the door. It is forbidden to meditate between husband and wife.
Time: Beginners should not meditate immediately after meals. Meditate after meals 1.5~2 hours or more. After a full meal, blood gas is digested in the stomach, and food is gathered in the stomach. If you meditate at this time, your feet will be dish-shaped, your blood gas will be scattered on your feet, your fingerprints will be knotted, your shoulders will be filled with gas, and your blood gas will be concentrated on your hands. This will cause the stomach and digestive tract to fail to work normally, and the gastrointestinal contents can be emptied in 2 to 3 hours, and then emptied in 3 to 4 hours. Over time, it will hurt the stomach and cause indigestion or stomach trouble, so meditation on an empty stomach is the most hygienic. But Lao Shen is not limited to this, because Lao Shen has a sense of qi all over his body. Be sure to calm down after a meal, the qi will run by itself, so it is not affected by the stomach after a meal. Old ginseng can help to promote qi circulation by using camp guards the day after tomorrow, and it is easier to get into the state by meditating after meals. The source of qi → weather first (from abdomen, perineum and right kidney), and then weather (energy metabolism after eating, health protection).
Duration: Beginners can start from 10 to 15 minutes, and gradually lengthen the meditation time to about one and a half to two hours per fragrance. Meditate at least twice every morning and evening. If you feel angry, you can meditate for half an hour, which is worth sleeping for two hours. If you are used to meditation, you will become really angry. If you don't meditate for a day, you will be listless and full of blood. Because every time I meditate, the developed qi can open the meridians one by one. If one day you don't meditate, your whole body's meridians will be blocked, and people will feel uncomfortable. When the meditator is tired, he can close his eyes and rest. With meditation and pranayama, ten minutes will have a very good rest effect. Beginners can meditate, and each seat should last for 80 minutes. When they sit-ups, they should first double the board and then change the single board. For example, after sitting for 50 minutes, they can sit for another 30 minutes, and the total 80 minutes will arrive soon. If the meditation time is too short, you have to get off as soon as you sit down, which is invalid for practice. To reach the realm of spiritual practice, we must lengthen the meditation time and sit for at least two hours. For example, if you practice meditation at the most critical moment, you have to sit for six hours at a time, three times a day and eighteen hours. Only by stepping up your study can you achieve something.
Meditation at noon: noon refers to 1 1~ 1 point in the evening and at noon. During this period, due to the mutual attraction of the earth, the moon and the sun, the magnetic energy and gas in the atmosphere are the most vigorous. If it can be inhaled into the body, it can be converted into internal qi, which is helpful to the body's efforts. Therefore, people who have not been trained in Buddhism generally dare not have too much qi to enter the body, but they must have enough qi to be enlightened.