13.Fearless

Question: The landlord, I want to ask you, what is the most obvious change between the whole person and before you did it?

A: The most obvious change is the fearlessness of life and death.

(Editor’s note: In fact, after experiencing extinction and testifying to Nirvana, one knows what is going on, and he has no fear of life or death.)

 Q: Excuse me, I have just started to practice meditation, and it has been more than 2 months, 0.5 hours a day. I just feel calmer. I still have my own thoughts. How can I improve? !!

Answer: 0.5 hours is too little. It takes at least 45 minutes.

In addition, self-study should start from the beginning. Attention is fundamental. The following commandments are all auxiliary. By analogy, the heart is the seed, and the cultivation of Dinghui is sunlight and water. Without seeds, sunlight and water cannot bloom and bear fruit.

Please refer to the first part of the inferior work “Structured Practice”, how to express your heart.

 Q: How to solve the problem that is easy to retreat?

Answer: Retreat is not strong in heart and strict discipline. So you should start from scratch. Keep the ring guarded and keep improving. Then we can talk about spiritual practice.

 Q: How can I break T ^ T if I can’t concentrate?

A: Look at yourself from the perspective of determination. Find out why for yourself.

 Q: Hello, ask a question. It ’s still a problem of breathing. It ’s very thick at first, but it ’s very thin later, it ’s very obvious, and then you ca n’t feel the breath. At this time, you only feel the action of neutralizing the nostrils, but you ca n’t feel the breath. Only the nostril contraction and expansion, and then continue for a period of time, if you think about it, the breathing begins to thicken, and then gradually adjust; in short, it is “you can’t feel the breath, and at this time you only feel the action of neutralizing the nostril “At this stage, I don’t know what to do later, please give me pointers.

Answer: First of all, the Four Zens will definitely break their breath. At this time, if there is a breathing phase, the habit of obsessing with breathing will not be broken, which will affect the four Zens. So we should abandon the concept of breathing and stay focused on the sense of touch in people. Even if nothing is felt, it is still felt. Live in this feeling.

 Question: Brother, have you completed the four Zen and eight decisive reincarnations? Can you not reincarnate as you wish when you die? In addition, can I ask you for contact information, if you have any doubts in your future practice, I would like to ask you.

Answer: Four Zens and Eight Datings cannot break the cycle. Reincarnation is driven by troubles. If you want to break the cycle, you must first break the trouble. Meditation cannot be annoying. Worries are broken by wisdom. But the power of wisdom comes from concentration. So it must be Hui Zhiji. If you have any doubts, you can ask here. Or Bean Post will do.

 Q: Thank you, I will study hard again

Answer: I don’t recommend learning Dharma from Buddhist scriptures. To read a book, you must read the Buddhist scriptures. Other people’s comments are for reference only. As for the book written out of the Buddhist scriptures, it can only be used as a reference. There is a saying, “Don’t let other people’s minds replace our thinking”, I think it is also very suitable to guide the Buddhist thinking and meditation. Therefore, based on the Buddhist scriptures’ own independent digestion, thinking and repairing is the right way and the shortcut.

From the perspective of practice, it is recommended to study the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Lenyan Sutra, and Lenga Sutra in order.

 Q: Hello, landlord.

Ask a question Kazakhstan. There has been almost no steady progress in meditation for 6 years … For many years, I have been sitting and falling asleep … What to do … Is it time to give up …

Answer: I talked about the method of counting interest information earlier. You can find it. Count from 1 to 600, count wrong never. you try.

 Q: The landlord is good ~~~~ Beginners request how to go from single plate to double plate

A: Don’t force it. Can be double-disc. No, it can be a single disc.

 Q: How should the scattered heart be dealt with? There are labor instructions ~~~

Answer: The treatment of distracted mind is the practice of precepts. Dispersion is an obstacle to be overcome in the first step of practice. The more progressive the practice, the less distracted the mind.

 Question: A common question is whether there is any idea in the decision. Sometimes I do n’t know what, just like having a sleep, I do n’t know what happened

Answer: There is an idea in the decision. But there was only one thought. The idea of ​​staying in the settled. The so-called state of mind. The four Zens and eight destinies all have thoughts. There is nothing but imagination and extinction. These two decisions are unintentional.

If you meditate as if you were asleep, you are drowsy. Or just fall asleep. Then it can’t be called repair, it’s called sleep.

The other is that it may be in doubt. It’s up to you to judge. Wu Sui Ding is a type of the Four Zens. The outing is set in the Four Zens. And if there is no fix, there will be memory loss.

 Q: Hello , landlord! The reason why I practice meditation is that I have been miserable for a long time before being troubled by the world. I often cry at night. One night I heard a voice in my dream saying: I will take you into the empty door. He just heard his voice and could not see him. Later, by coincidence, I began to practice meditation and converted to Buddhism. I would like to ask you, if a person who wants to escape from the sea of ​​suffering and live a blissful world can get married? In the mundane world, we can neither become a monk against our parents nor have children without marriage. Will this hinder my practice? In addition, is it not good to eat meat in spiritual life?

A: Generally speaking, secular life is a big obstacle to spiritual practice. The less interference there should be, the better. Especially at the beginning of practice.

Eating meat is definitely not good. Those who have obstacles to spiritual practice, especially those who are impaired in purifying the body.

Basically, practice is practice. The practice is liberation. The so-called liberation karma is the karma that stops reincarnation. If it is said that contrived cause and effect is reincarnation, then no contrivance or reincarnation is liberation.

Living in this world, creating cause and effect, as long as the trouble is not exhausted, this trouble promotes karma reincarnation is endless. So practice is to break away the trouble. When the anxiety is gone, the industry report will no longer be promoted.

So, ask yourself whether mundane life makes you worry less or more. If there is less and less trouble, it is liberation. If you don’t see less trouble, that’s reincarnation.

Survival Pure Land is survival. Passing away is not liberation, but another place to practice. In addition, it depends on the understanding of pure land. If pure land is to be understood intelligently, for example, the physical body is not different, the physical body is pure land.

 Question: Can you briefly describe the change of thoughts from one Zen to four Zens; for example, it should be scattered at first, and then one Zen has search and service; the second Zen has search and service, but this service is breathing Let ’s touch it; what is the thought of the three Zens without searching and serving; what about the four Zens? Thank you.

Answer: Baidu, my inferior work “Structured Practice”, how to fix it.

 Question: I ’ ve seen it. I understand that taking and living is my problem. My problem is that I feel the touch all the time. As the breath becomes fine, the touch becomes fine. At the time, the tactile sensations of coming and going are not the same). When this concept is released, it seems that the tactile sensation is also released, and then the person enters a stage of ignorance. Unable to speak. My question is, even if the breath is very weak, do you still need to be aware of this touch, even if it is very weak? So, after the nasal breath is broken, how can you feel this touch? Thank you for your advice.

Answer: After breathing is broken, there is still realm. There is a touch in the realm (don’t think that there is a touch in the body, this is a confusing view. There are no bodies in the four Zen realms. But there are realms, and this realm is touch. Experience from the heart) How to perceive, as long as sober is in awareness.

The cultivation must be sober. Good practice is the more sober, the more insightful it becomes.

 Question: When I have a question and count the interest, does the master say that he needs to count to 600+? Feeling the touch while counting? Another problem is that the current meditation can be simply divided into two types. One is to sit purely and do n’t want to sit. This is called the inaction magic. The other is the sober and definitive method advocated by the brothers and masters Of course, is it possible to meditate on Buddha here regardless of the first two sitting methods? Or is there any good or bad? I think the Master of the Five Rounds can achieve this achievement within one year. It is impossible to sit down and see the compassionate insights of the people. Thank you everyone!

Answer: Counting interest is the convenience method. Adding a few breath-guarding fences to your breathing (prevents your heartbeat from forgetting your breathing), helps your mind set. When your heart is stable, you don’t need to count. Just watch your breath.

There is a difference in the practice of meditation and sitting still. There are also differences in ideas.

The meditation is a way to the end, and you can practice this method until you are free (but you must practice on the basis of Prajna). This is Ding Hui’s method.

Stopping in one state and then leaving, this is the first method. The four zens are settled, the extinction is settled, and the third is out of the realm.

There is no distinction between superiority and inferiority. It only depends on whether the practitioner can fulfill the requirements of the Fa.

There is no contradiction between the two. You can change it. You can also change between two kinds of cultivation methods in one building.

In fact, discussing these principles is not very useful. Human consciousness is manipulated by distress. Heavily troubled people, even with Dharma in front of them, will make misunderstandings. The most important thing for a practitioner is to experience it physically, stick to the precepts and let the practice persist, make the mind weak, stop the troubles, and let the mind out of the Three Realms. Practice is the only correct way to learn Dharma.