Since I got into the habit of meditation, it has become a new routine to meditate for 6 to 10 minutes every day. Usually at night, after running and taking a shower, I sit on the balcony, close my eyes and start a day of meditation. Usually you start by observing your breathing, take a deep breath and then observe your breathing and feel the state between your upper lip and nose when you breathe. This is basically the whole meditation process. Many times, I will be distracted and think of many different memories before. At this time, many clear pictures will emerge in my mind. When my brain realizes that I am distracted, it will slowly withdraw its attention to my breathing. After practicing like this for a while, I always feel that my understanding of meditation seems to stay in a very superficial state, and many related concepts are also half-baked? There are many questions in my heart that I can't find the answer, such as:

Why should we always pay attention to our breathing state when meditating?

When my mind is flying, why not let my brain recall or imagine?

With these questions, I reread a long article about meditation I read a long time ago: How to Meditate written by Daniel Niu. 2500 years of wisdom-ten diaries of a desert island. The article is very long, more than 20 thousand words, and it is the most thoughtful article I have spent on meditation.

On February 20 14, the author attended a meditation course in Hong Kong for 10 days. During these ten days, all the students were forced to completely break away from mobile phones, computers, signals, networks and modern society. For ten days in a row, they got up at 4 o'clock every morning, did not eat after noon, and were forbidden to speak, gesture and make eye contact for ten days in a row. Meditation for 10 hours every day constitutes the whole of life. In addition to the author, other 1 1 male students include: an Australian, a Frenchman, a Singaporean, a Malaysian, an Indian, two young people from Hong Kong and two elderly people from Hong Kong, which is a very international combination. This article is the author's ten-day meditation experience, and also his reflection and summary on meditation.

The process of meditation can be basically summarized in two words: observing interest, and the following are the specific operation steps.

"Focus all your attention on your nose. Observe that air enters around your left and right nostrils, touches the left and right nasal edges, enters the left and right nasal cavities, and then flows out from the left and right nasal cavities. Sometimes only through the right nasal cavity, sometimes only through the left nasal cavity, or sometimes through both the left and right nasal cavities. These can be done, all you have to do is observe the natural situation. "

After a period of daily meditation, I found that during the meditation time of 10 minutes, my mind was always absent-minded, and sometimes my thoughts drifted far away. My meditation was almost over when I finally realized that I was absent-minded and quickly refocused my attention on my breathing. So when reading this article, I have been thinking about a question: What kind of experience is it to meditate 10 hours every day for ten consecutive days? Perhaps the answer can only be truly understood after I have personally experienced such a meditation course, but after reading the whole article, I really solved many doubts in my heart. First of all, why do you have to watch your breath and feel different parts of your body when you meditate?