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? —— Excerpt from Wudang anecdote

Sitting is a key link in our practice. This is what we have to sit on. But how did we meet?

When I first learned to meditate, my joints and tendons did not soften. When sitting, your legs will tilt up and your waist will not straighten up. Cushion can solve this problem to some extent. No sooner had I sat down than I broke up. If you sit for more than half an hour and your legs are numb and swollen, you can serve a single dish. In a single dish, if which leg is soft first, put which leg and which foot first. If the thigh is tilted badly and keeps slipping, it means that the joint has not become soft. Take your time. When you can't help it, change your legs and practice one leg at a time. Don't rush, you can't pull out the seedlings. When you sit down, you can spread your legs slowly, but don't straighten your legs at once, which will make you numb and afraid to move. Once, a fellow initiate was in a hurry to get on the double deck as soon as possible. As a result, he sprained his ankle and was afraid to walk. As time goes on, the pain and numbness in the legs will become more and more unbearable. It will be very painful after a long time, and I don't want to endure it for a moment. At this time, you must insist on it again, and don't sit down at once. In the meantime, you should feel the pain. At this time, you will find the pain wave after wave, sometimes lighter and sometimes heavier. After more and more kung fu, the interval of pain will be longer and longer, and slowly, the pain will be alleviated. Monasticism, in the final analysis, is also the cultivation of perseverance and willpower.

When meditating, put on clothes; Legs, feet, knees and buttocks should also be covered with blankets or something and surrounded. Because when you meditate, your joints and pores will gradually open. If you don't cover them up, you will be attacked by evil winds, which is harmful to your health. Hand, the right hand can be placed on the left hand, and the two thumbs are opposite; You can also put your hands on your knees and palms up; Other handprints can also be printed. After sitting up, I took a deep breath, my heart sank ... and then some people held their heads and recited the Buddha's name Guanyin. There are many methods, all of which aim at "controlling one's thoughts in one place" and then enter an ethereal and oblivious state. You can choose your own method according to your own preferences.

Earning income means observing your breathing, from coarse to fine, and gradually to fetal interest ... observing breathing means knowing the length of your breathing. Don't breathe quickly, but evenly; Not short, but light, thin and soft. "The interest rate is long and the interest rate is short." This long breath and short breath doesn't mean the length of breathing, but the length of the pause period when you don't breathe. A real meditation person needs to breathe for a long time, and then if you don't breathe, your body breathing will have a wonderful place. This realm is called "fetal interest" by Taoism. If we can breathe into the fetus, we can know, demonstrate, control and change our lives. Therefore, this is also a method of life and death. Life is in a breath. People die, breathe out their last breath, and the inhaled air no longer comes in. Once he stopped breathing, he died. Therefore, when you meditate, it has its own meaning to fix your breath.

Meditation is also very helpful for practicing our patience. For example, as soon as I sit down, I feel quite quiet and a little relieved. Can't sit for a long time, my heart begins to work, and I am extremely bored; My leg is numb, it hurts and I can't stand it. I just want to sit down quickly and stop practicing. I feel that I have been sitting for a long time, but I feel that I have only been sitting for a few minutes by looking at my watch. Sit down again, just for a while, not again. Therefore, meditation is very helpful to temper our word "forbearance". From this perspective, measuring legs is also measuring the heart. Meditation is like this, so is life and work. When you meet one thing, don't expect it, don't back down. I regretted it later. I will hold back next time! As a result, the next time something happens, I can't hold back and make up my mind again. This is the same as when I first started meditation. Practicing meditation definitely helps to cultivate our concentration and increase our wisdom.

Besides, don't eat too much at ordinary times, especially at night. Isn't there a saying in Taoism? "If you want to be young, your stomach is not full; If you want to die, there is no shit in your intestines. " If you eat too much at night, you will easily get dizzy during meditation. The next question is, when you meditate, you have a lot of thoughts, and even old things many years ago can be remembered when you meditate. What can we do? We can recite the mantra, guard our hearts and observe the treatment. One thought brings all thoughts, and finally you return to one thought, and then you give up that thought, and finally you don't think about it. In other words, our ideas keep popping up, one after another, instead of no ideas at all. If there is no thought, dead people, stones, etc. will not. Have you become a Buddha? Therefore, the ancients said: Mo Yan has no intention to take care of his heart, but he is still separated by many barriers. There is a saying: can't afford to buy, can't afford to sit. I can't afford it, but it doesn't mean I have no idea. When an idea comes, you don't welcome it, that is, ignore it, don't hate it, and don't suppress it. Because hate itself is a delusion. The suppression is even worse. If it is suppressed for a long time, it will become memoryless and cannot be used for magical purposes. You can't grasp the idea. The present idea will soon become the past idea. Those thoughts are information, acquired consciousness, what we know from generation to generation, what we learn and what we see in our brains. When you meditate, it starts to be released ... and then it disappears. It is wrong to look at yourself when you are depressed. Just let it go, go wherever you want, and leave it alone. What do you mean, everything is fate? This is called fate.

It's normal for him to think too much at first, but he can't calm down. Just let him die. He died when he was born. He died again when he was born. He's dead. He comes and goes naturally. This is in line with the convention.

Practice is not practiced, but realized by yourself.

Correct meditation posture and method

Meditation is the most fundamental way to develop one's wisdom.

The concept of interests is impermanent, and there is no greed for a long time; If you are interested in learning, thinking and research, you can get rid of it. About practical interests: healthy body, peaceful mind, bright mind, gentle temperament, self-cultivation from peace, egoism.

Learning to sit still requires patience, perseverance and perseverance to succeed.

Posture (body adjustment)

First of all, you should adjust your sitting posture when sitting quietly. Generally, you can try to cook double dishes. If you can't do it, you can also do it individually or separately. You can also sit on the stool, but you should sit in the first third of the stool, and the acupoints of Yin Hui (between urine and anus) should not be pressed under the stool. Because Yin Hui acupoint is located on the main road of the three arteries of Foot Yin, Foot Yang and Ren Du, once this acupoint is blocked, the eight veins are blocked, so we must pay attention to the importance of this acupoint.

The elderly can also sit on a stool (when sitting on a stool, you should sit in the first third of the stool, and you can't press the Yin Hui point). Whether you are sitting on a stool or sitting on a stool, you should pay attention to the straight posture, the straight spine, the body not leaning or leaning, and not leaning on the column backrest. This is a crucial gesture. People love to entertain themselves, so they usually sit on the sofa and lean on the chair, which makes the spine bend in many places and the muscles tense and tense. Long-term traction makes the muscles produce rope-like hard strips. Through optical function or eye observation, when the spine is blocked, the airflow and energy running in the human body will overflow from here, causing damage to the body. Its principle is like a canal. If it is blocked somewhere, the water flow will rise and explode, and the downstream flow will be significantly reduced. The nerves of the human body lead from the brain to the spine and extend from both sides of the spine. If the spine is blocked, nerves, chakras and internal organs will be compressed. In addition, the spine is the route of Du meridian, the sea of Yang meridian and the avenue. So the straightness of the body has a great influence on the spine. Then, when sitting for a long time, the airflow increases, and it is more important to sit up straight. If you don't sit up straight, once you are blocked, the energy will gather somewhere, which is more powerful than usual.

A novice sitting in a dish will make his legs and feet numb and sore, so he must be patient. Practice for a long time, and it will gradually become natural. When the numbness is unbearable, you can exchange your legs up and down. If you really can't stand it, you can temporarily loosen it until the numbness disappears. If you can be very patient, let it go, you will be extremely numb and gradually lose your feelings. If you can recover this time naturally, after this stage and several times, you will not be numb when you sit down.

How to solve leg pain and back pain during meditation?

At the beginning of meditation, you will encounter leg pain and low back pain, which are mainly caused by insufficient blood and poor lumbar spine, coccyx, legs and waist. The solution is as follows:

(1) When you meditate, keep your body straight and don't bend over.

(2) To solve the problem of leg pain, we must keep the submarine chakra where the perineum and Changqiang point (the tip of coccyx) are located unblocked, because the leg is controlled by the lumbar vertebrae and coccyx, and the most important thing is the submarine chakra.

(3) The length of meditation is a key issue. A short time is equivalent to turning off the fire before the water boils. A pot of water a day can't be boiled for a lifetime. Therefore, in meditation, when the legs feel numb, try not to think about them. At this time, the more I think about it, the more painful it is. At this time, you can use the method of diverting attention to observe other parts. In this process, you must bear it. I can't die anyway, and my leg can't be broken. Let it go. After a long time, once the air rushes over, it doesn't hurt anymore.

(4) Whether the mind is quiet during meditation is also related to the length of meditation and whether the legs are numb. If you calm down, the meditation time will be naturally prolonged unconsciously, and the leg pain will soon pass. To be quiet, the key is to eat less. Eating once a day or crossing the valley is very beneficial to keep your mind quiet during meditation.

(5) At the beginning of meditation, if the leg pain is really unbearable, you can slightly lift the sides of your hips and let the gas rush past. If not, you can loosen your legs for a few minutes before continuing the dish. The pain gradually stopped.

(6) When meditating, stay on the submarine wheel and recite aloud, such as: hum, ah, moo, only one word at a time, prolong the sound, make a noise to aggravate the nasal sound, and visualize the vibration of the submarine wheel. The sound will spread in all directions from the midvein, which can last for half an hour to an hour at a time, so that the submarine wheel can be washed away as soon as possible, and the leg pain can be washed away as soon as possible. This method can not only open the legs, but also open various chakras, eliminate lesions, open the middle pulse, glow, eliminate karma and so on. These effects have been repeatedly verified.

(7) In addition, for beginners of meditation, the cushion for meditation is also very important. I usually see many people sitting on thick and soft sponge cushions during meditation. This kind of cushion sinks in the middle after sitting, and the deeper it sinks, the greater the reaction force to bounce up and oppress the buttocks, but it is not conducive to the smooth flow of blood in the legs by oppressing Yin Hui and Changqiang points.

When sitting quietly, if you sit cross-legged, you can raise your hips by about an inch, so that everyone is comfortable and the scrotum and perineum are not oppressed. So, choose a cushion that is neither hard nor soft. And when you meditate, you can only sit in the first third of the cushion, and you can't hold Yin Hui point to keep your blood flowing.

Adjust the whole body to relax inside and outside, so as to be straight but not stiff, loose but not paralyzed. The key to relaxation is to "stretch your brows and smile". If the eyebrows are relaxed, all parts of the body will reach a relaxed state.

The posture of hands can be relaxed with palms up and naturally placed on legs according to the needs of personal cultivation. Patients with head diseases such as hypertension and cerebral thrombosis can buckle their palms down on their legs.

Close your eyes slightly when you sit still, but don't close your eyes immediately. Sit still for a while, then slowly droop. If you are sleepy, just open your eyes slightly and hang the curtains. The tip of the tongue gently touches the palate, and when the mouth is full of body fluid, it is swallowed into the lower abdomen in three small mouths.

Legs and feet are the starting points of meditation.

Kung fu starts with the legs and feet. The more relaxed the legs and feet, the faster the legs will open. Only when you meditate with your legs open can you sit still, and it is easier to relax when you sit still. It is natural for the body to relax. The body has no extra strength. After that, there will be a warm phase like a child sleeping. With a warm phase, your body will be soft, less disturbing to your mind and easier to be quiet. Began to meditate, either physical pain or spiritual struggle. Meditation is one of the best ways to calm the body and mind.

Xu of the Western School said in Tianle Ji: "Warm and numb": "At this time, from mouth and nose breathing to pore breathing, opening and closing, flowing with the world, nothing is natural, that is, from limbs to five internal organs, pedestrians feel warm and beautiful."

There is a key point here: "from limbs to five internal organs." Acupuncture says that the place where residual temperature flows is below the elbow and knee. This coincides with what Xu Hai said. Like a tree, its branches and leaves exchange energy with nature, and its branches and leaves are like human limbs. Therefore, we must follow the theory of legs and feet as the starting point, waist and abdomen as the center and head as the root.

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(The article comes from the Internet. The content is only for public welfare sharing, discussion and reference. Without the guidance of the master, it is not recommended to practice by yourself. Remember! Remember! ! )

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