The literal explanation of meditation: meditation means annihilation. Thinking is your thinking and thinking, and meditation is to get rid of the thoughts and thoughts you want to think about and find perception.

Meditation, everyone mistakenly believes that meditation can only be done by sitting there. There is even a special course for meditation. In fact, you can enter this state of thinking without thinking anytime and anywhere. For example, asanas and observing breathing can also lead to DHYANA. When doing asanas, you move your body through breathing. When you use your breath to move your body, when your body reaches its limit, you are already in a state of DHYANA. Some people call asana movement moving meditation. Moving meditation starts from what is the entrance and observes our body over a period of time. We will find that there are controllable and uncontrollable parts in the body.

Controllable: For example, moving your body, blinking, inhaling, and holding your breath are all things you can control.

Uncontrollable: For example, the growth of nails and hair is something you cannot direct or control.

Meditation starts from the controllable part of our body. For example: bend your hands to a high degree. When you bend and stretch to the limit, your thinking stops at this time. Many yoga postures require you to reach the limit of the body as much as possible. After reaching the limit of the body, the consciousness enters the state of perception. , enter the DHYANA state. YAM in PRANAYAMA has another meaning: infinite expansion, infinite stretching. When doing an asana to reach infinite stretch, you enter the state of DHYANA. Practicing asanas uses the limits of the body. After the physical exercise, many teachers There will be some candlelight meditation, OM sound meditation, meditation on breathing, etc. The principles are the same. Candlelight meditation uses your eyes. Open your eyes and don't blink. In fact, as long as you master the principles, you can master meditation without using candles. Without using candles, open your eyes and try not to blink. When the controllable system reaches the point where it becomes uncontrollable, the eyes After opening it for a while, you feel tired and need to blink to protect your eyes, but you control it and don't blink. At this time, the thinking in your mind stops, and there is no thought at this time. The exercise of meditation actually uses the controllable parts of the body to cut off thoughts, and the same goes for breathing. Many teachers will teach you to exhale, inhale, and hold your breath. Let's try an experiment. Take a deep breath and hold it. At the moment of holding your breath, your mind will enter a vacuum state and you will be unable to think. Just entered DHYANA.

When thinking is cut off, a kind of energy flows automatically and enters perception. It is difficult for perception and thinking to exist at the same time. When thinking is too strong, perception will disappear.

DHYANA is in a state of perception, and this perception is intelligent. Not the mindless perception of a child or a madman. The thinking of children and madmen is low-level and uninitiated, and their perceptions are ignorant and unintelligent. DHYANA is the high degree of unity of perception and wisdom.

I think it is a difficult content to explain, and it involves a lot of things that cannot be expressed in words. Many books say that meditation cannot be discussed or discussed. But our ancient Lao Tzu said: "Tao can be Tao, but it is very Tao." That means that the unspeakable things can still be said. Even though the things said are not the original things, we still have to experience it and try to explain it as much as possible. There is a very important word in YOGA practice: DHYANA. The word meditation comes from the Sanskrit word DHYANA. In ancient times, this word was translated as "Zen". In ancient times, it was passed to China through Bodhidharma, and then to Japan from China. In Japan, it was called ZEN.

You cannot find words like DHYANA in Western languages, so it can only be translated as MEDITATION (medicine for the soul), which comes from MEDICINE (medicine). Today's meditation comes from the translation of MEDITATION, and MEDITATION will also be translated as meditation and meditation. Basically, Osho's things are translated into meditation on the Internet.

Meditation courses are Zen courses. Meditation, Zen, is a state of perception.

What is perception and perception: Perception means that if you hit me or was scalded by boiling water, I feel the pain. It is a kind of sensory induction. DHYANA: Our minds are often in a state of thinking. We are always thinking about things. If we think too much, we will forget our perception. When a person thinks too much, he will forget his body’s perception ability. If he is in a state of thinking for a long time, the mind and body will be affected. It will be highly fragmented. When the fragmentation is very strong, it will cause insomnia, anxiety, and tension, which can cause various diseases, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, etc.

When a person is far away from consciousness and is in a state of "out of mind", his thinking is completely separated from the body, and his consciousness loses his ability to perceive. Pay attention to the pedestrians on the road, and you will see that, especially in big cities, when you observe them, everyone is not walking. When he walks, his eyes, movements, and other aspects are taken to another place imagined in his mind. It is difficult to walk easily when you have a destination. This kind of walking state is to pull your mind away from the body. If you observe the elderly exercising in the park in the early morning or dusk, you will find that their walking state is completely different from that during the day. They walk for the sake of walking, and there is harmony in their movements. When a person thinks too much, causing the mind to leave the body, the body and mind are divided, and this division produces various diseases.

DHYANA is through yoga practice and a series of methods that allow you to recombine your mind and body and enter a state of perception. This state cannot be expressed in words, so use The word DHYANA is used to describe this state. This is the purpose and effect of our yoga practice.

Confirmed by modern medicine:

1. Shigeo Haruyama, a famous Japanese medical doctor, has confirmed from a large number of clinical practices and scientific research that the brain of people who engage in guided thinking can secrete a morphine-like substance Substance called "endorphins". It can not only improve the brain and maintain the youthful vitality of brain cells, but also make people feel happy, enhance immune function, prevent aging, and improve the ability to prevent and naturally cure diseases (the body's self-healing power when diseases occur).

2. Observed from brain waves, beta waves appear continuously when our body is tense or bored. This is one of the causes of living environment diseases or cancer, mental illness, insomnia, neurosis and other diseases. . In 1997, Dr. Watanabe Tsuyoshi, Kawauchi Akihiro, and Kamoi Kazumi of the Tokyo Metropolitan University of Medical Sciences collaborated on an experiment on brain waves during yoga meditation. They found that a large number of beta waves appeared after meditation. It has unique effects that cannot be found in other health methods. When a large number of waves appear, the brain center will feel refreshed and harmonious, and diseases and disease-causing factors will be eliminated from the brain.

3. Meditate and place the tip of your tongue against your upper jaw. The root of your tongue will be stimulated, which can increase saliva secretion. Saliva is not only necessary for digestion, but also contains a peroxidase that can inhibit cancer and anti-aging properties. hormone.

4. When meditation reaches a state of concentration, the whole body relaxes, the heartbeat slows down significantly, the breathing becomes a tortuous state, the body's metabolism decreases, and the brain and tissues and organs are at rest, consuming oxygen. Reducing the amount to the lowest level is the best way to save life and delay aging.

5. Meditation, it has been measured that muscles and brain nerves are relaxed, blood flow throughout the body is increased by 15-16 times, and various tissues and organs are steadily nourished, so that the inner layer of facial skin is fully hydrated and nutritious. , giving people a radiant beauty, so there is currently a wave of meditation beauty craze in Japan.

6. Gene theory: Human genetic engineering confirms that genes are powerful weapons for the human body to resist viruses and heal itself. As the fourth medical revolution, the most successful result of gene therapy is its use in the treatment of heart disease. Certain progress has also been made in treating genetic diseases and preventing AIDS and cancer. Since humans can use genes for treatment, genetic changes can also affect a person's intelligence, appearance, gender, body shape, etc. Meditation can produce positive thinking methods, eliminate negative emotions, regulate the nervous and endocrine systems, thereby achieving the effect of self-repair genes.

First of all, let’s learn to meditate. If you start meditating from a young age, meditating is not difficult, but for adults it seems like...

Sit with your legs crossed On the mat (the mat should be about 10cm thick), put the heel of your left foot as close to your body as possible, lift your right foot and place it on your left calf (if possible, place it on your thigh). You can exchange your left and right feet. The goal is that one day your When your right foot is placed on your left thigh, your left foot can still be placed on your right leg, then it's OK. (If it hurts, don't force it, it will get better gradually.) You can put your hands in any way you like. But the most commonly used ones are to put your hands together or make mudras (if you know a little bit about it). Otherwise, it’s not a bad idea to just leave it there.

Maybe you can wear a special accessory and do some special actions ( For example, what to pray first). You can give these actions and decorations your own religious meaning (such as elves or... anything). You can also diffuse incense or play music, but in the end the music must disappear, otherwise it will only affect you Future results. Don’t be too complicated. Simple rituals can make it easier for you to enter the state.

Then, start to formulate your meditation plan. We need regular practice. It is best to have 1 day every week to fully use it. Come and meditate. (I mean the best, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have time.) On that day, meditate at least 4 times for half an hour each time. (It would be better if you can do it all day long.) In the interval Do some simple work, such as cleaning or reading a book about meditation. Pay full attention to whatever you do. It is best to prepare the food in advance, keep it simple and light. (Eating salads all day long can also help lose weight.) Do not eat or Drink stimulating things. If you need other things, it is best to prepare them in advance. Looking for them will only make people irritated. You can meditate by yourself or with like-minded people. But there is a rule: except for companions, do not Publicize these things everywhere.

If you find it painful to sit for half an hour, you can slowly extend the time. Sometimes, you can test it specifically and freely extend the meditation time when you feel comfortable. Look at your watch again, and you'll probably find that much more time has passed than you felt! Of course, everyone is different, and maybe the time is just right.

After each meditation, try to Maintain that happy, objective mood. It may disappear for a while at first, but it will gradually lengthen later. If you maintain this state every moment of your life, you will be a master.

< p>You can do simple exercises anytime, anywhere. Feel your emotions and movements at every moment, and tell yourself what you are doing. You can also eliminate distracting thoughts and listen carefully to the wind... whatever you like.

< p>Although I only wrote a few lines on this question, it is the most important part of this class: meditate at any time, practice at any time, life can be a long river of learning... This class is a small one Summary, there is no special content. If you have already started, you will find that some of the contents are very important. If you have not started yet, but are longing for another kind of miracle... what I said is all rubbish. .

Let us first see how powerful our thoughts are.

Do it with me now (just do it once, this is just a game, not a method. Of course, if you are willing to play it a few more times...]

Think now , there is a lemon on the table next to you. Imagine its bright yellow color, the texture of its skin, its soft lines... There are still water drops on its skin after it has been washed... You have to think about it carefully, as if it is really a lemon. It's there. Close your eyes and try to enrich your imagination. Now imagine that you have a fruit knife in your hand, and you cut it through the middle, and the lemon-yellow and juicy flesh appears. The juice is squeezed out and splashes on your hand. The cut lemon is swaying on the table with a bang. (Try to enrich your imagination.) Then, you pick up the lemon and look at it. Take a bite! ... Tell me, how does it feel? Anyway, I am already drooling after writing... The first time I did it, I felt like I was really eating it. I winked and stuck out my tongue. It was so miserable! Yes, as long as you think carefully enough, special effects will appear.