After you have the precepts, you can choose a meditation method (the term is "karma") to practice meditation. There are many ways to practice meditation, among which 40 kinds are recorded in the * * * Pure Way compiled by the Buddha. We usually use two ideas: commitment and kindness. Now I quote Ven. Do you know Buddhism? The introductory method and the cultivation method contained in the book are also recorded in this book, and the sages can download and consult them themselves. Here is just a brief introduction to the entry method. If you really want to get the first meditation or even a higher level, you can refer to ven's records. Ma Xinda's "Introduction to Buddhism" and "The Way to Cleanliness".
When you get home, if there are no other chores, you can take a period of time, half an hour, forty-five minutes or an hour. Don't watch TV, don't turn on the computer, turn off your cell phone and phone, and find a quiet place, such as your own room and study. Find a comfortable seat cushion, the seat cushion is about four fingers high, or a little higher, and the hips are raised a little, so as to keep the balance of the body's center of gravity and facilitate sitting for a long time. Then keep your upper body straight, don't bend over, bend over, and don't stretch too straight, naturally straight.
Close your eyes gently, then relax all over, leaving your body in a relaxed, natural, comfortable and meditative state. At this time, we should temporarily put aside the affairs of work, the troubles of life and the trivial matters of family, take back our wandering heart, don't look back on the past, don't plan the future, let go of everything that has nothing to do with meditation, and decide to return to the present and to our own time and space at this moment. When the body and mind are in a natural, relaxed and comfortable state, build your mind on the area above the nose, person or lips and try to be aware of your breathing.
Don't follow the breath into the body, and don't follow the breath out of the body; Don't pay attention to the soft, slippery, light, flowing, hot, cold, pushing and other feelings of breathing, and don't "see" breathing with your eyes, just let your mind know the nose and people's breathing in and out.
In the process of perceiving breathing, if you find yourself with many delusions, you still can't calm down. I suggest that you can overcome them by counting your breath at this time.
The method of calculating breath is: when inhaling, know the breath; When exhaling, know the breath; Meditate "one" in your mind at the end of your career; Then I know my breathing when I breathe in, I know my breathing when I exhale, and I say "two" in my mind at the end of my breathing ... So I said a few words silently.
You can choose any number from five to ten when counting. For example, choose to count from one to eight. In this way, the number at the end of each breath: in, out, one; In, out, two; In, out, three; Entry, exit and four; Enter, exit and five; In, out, and six; Enter, exit and seven; In, out, eight. If you want to choose to calculate interest at the end of your income, that is, out, in and out; Out, in, two ... out, in, eight. You can also choose to count to ten. In any case, when counting your breath, you should focus on your breath. Numbers are just a tool and a convenience. You should not focus on numbers.
If you calculate the interest like this and you are still delusional, you must make up your mind: "Let me count from one to eight, and my heart will not drift away!" " "Set a time period by calculating interest. If we count our interests from one to eight in two minutes, then our hearts will not drift away in these two minutes. In this way, one round trip is two minutes, two round trips are four minutes and three round trips are six minutes ... In this way, we gradually increase our concentration time.
In the process of calculating interest, once you find that your heart has drifted away and is interrupted by delusion, you must start again. For example, if you count to six and find that your heart is floating, don't continue counting and go back to one! If you keep counting, your heart will become numb to calculating interest. In the future, you may get into the bad habit of dreaming while counting, so it won't work to calculate interest. So, once you feel floating away in the process of calculating interest, go back to one! Be sure to keep your heart clean from one to eight.
If you can continue to focus on breathing for about fifteen minutes, twenty minutes or even half an hour in this way, if your mind is calm and your delusions are reduced, you can stop counting your breathing, just focus on your nose and people and keep your awareness of breathing.
Realizing that breathing is actually a very simple and simple thing. Why? Because we breathe all the time, breathing is all the time, but we always ignore its existence. To be aware of breathing, you don't have to be artificial or deliberate, just try to understand and care about the breath that has always existed.
This is a way to calm your mind by focusing on breathing. This method is called getting into your mind. As long as you can always learn to pay attention to breathing, you will find your emotions easier to control and your heart easier to calm down.