Zen, quiet also.
Zen realm is an extremely quiet and wonderful realm pursued by practitioners throughout the ages, and it is also the first step for all practitioners to enter the realm of enlightenment. Focus on the state of silence, and you will reach a state of forgetting yourself. This situation is not to forget yourself with thoughts, but to really integrate yourself into everything around you, into the emptiness around you, and create a stable realm. After reaching this state, it proves the true emptiness and wisdom, reaches the state of qualitative change and realizes the awakening of the soul.
Why do we feel uncertain in the process of meditation? It is because our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and heart (that is, our six roots) are constantly shaking and grabbing, which disturbs our mind and consciousness, makes our thoughts and differences fluctuate like ripples in water, and leads to our confusion and decreased consciousness.
For example, our eyes, in meditation, we will close our eyes and meditate in order to make the grasping less. However, in this case, in fact, the perception of your eyes still exists, and you will perceive the brightness of the external light and the various scenes inside you. These sights will shake your body and mind, and make your mind fluctuate wave after wave.
Of course, the sound we hear in our ears, the smell we smell in our nose, the perception of our tongue, the pain and feeling of our bodies, and the difference in consciousness will all disturb our minds and make us unable to reach a stable state. In this way, we can't perceive our own existence and everything around us. We all wander in our own minds and are bound by our own minds. In fact, this is also a part of karma and confusion. Therefore, the first step for a man of practice is meditation.
? Chapter one? Sit down and forget.
The general form of our meditation is meditation, that is, sitting quietly on a meditation stool. Some people watch the breath, some people watch the air, and some people watch themselves. There are all kinds of methods and categories, but they all make their minds single-minded.
The key at first is to let us settle down, but the purpose of meditation is to let us settle down. This is not just a form of meditation to keep our bodies calm. In the process of walking and repeating actions, you can enter the meditation realm of selflessness and single-mindedness.
In this realm, when our body and mind gradually settle down, the feelings of the body will appear. For example, fever, which represents the smooth pulse of our body and the collection of energy, is also a feeling that our body feels very comfortable when it is still or repeats an action for a long time. For example, pain not only represents the flow of energy, but also represents the phenomenon that energy is stuck here.
At this time, the ancients had two opposite practices: one was to focus on the painful part, so that the energy here would be stronger and break through the resistance; The other is not to pay attention to it, let it get hurt and let the energy naturally penetrate. Two ways, no matter what you do, just follow your heart or habit.
Sometimes, we also use our thoughts to guide our bodies. For example, empty yourself and let yourself blend into the void; Sometimes we imagine the body as a flower or a tree, and let our body and mind perceive another form. However, this is a conscious compulsion. This conscious forgetting is not a real forgetting.
The real forgetting is in the process of meditation. In quiet meditation, you forget your body, where you are and what you are experiencing now. At this point, you really see your heart trembling and your thoughts fluctuating.
Our body is like a water tank. When the body does not move, the water in the tank will be crystal clear. This water is like our thoughts. Forgetting is forgetting the water tank. You only need to observe the light and shadow changes in the water tank, not the water tank.