D1? Small Thoughts on Meditation

On the first day, I meditated formally. Because I had previous experience, the time was set a bit long, and was set at 25 minutes. After getting up, I was worried about continuing to sleep like before, so I went to meditate on the carpet in the living room. Since I had no clothes on and the window was open, I put on an air-conditioned quilt. After I actually sat up to meditate, I found that the uncovered area was indeed colder.

First of all, I didn’t feel any pain in my legs just after sitting on it, but my shoulders felt uncomfortable when I put my hands on my knees, so I took my hands back to make sure that the shoulders were actually bent. Always pay attention to keeping your back straight, but as time goes by, your back will gradually relax. You will feel it as soon as you relax, and you will correct it immediately.

I think the specific content of meditation is disorganized. First of all, the outside environment is full of chirping and chirping birds, which makes it a bit difficult to get into the mood. But as I focus on scanning my body, I can't feel too many bird calls. While scanning the body, it is still difficult to focus on various organs. Basically, my thoughts are gone before I reach my knees. I will think about yesterday's work, the dreams I had at night, plan today's work arrangements, and think of distant places. girlfriend. Overall it's just hard to focus.

What I want to do most after I concentrate is to use my metacognitive ability, so that I can know what state I am in when I am thinking about something, and take my eyes out of my body and look at it from another place. own status. This is the most desired state.

D2? Meditate and think

I got up more than an hour late today because I came back at 1:30 last night and I didn’t get enough sleep, so I didn’t get up at 5:30. But when we started to meditate at 6:40, we made a lot of noise. One moment, there was a scary sound of a car horn, and another moment, there was the sound of a car starting up. Therefore, I still have to take an early morning meditation trip in the future.

Secondly, as for today’s physical sensation, the time is still set to 25 minutes, so my legs will be numb for almost 15 minutes, but this numbness is an acceptable pain, and I gradually get used to this feeling. What I want to correct most at the moment is how to keep my back straight while placing my hands on my knees. Judging from the feeling, my back often bends unnaturally and makes me feel comfortable all the time. A straight back is more comfortable. Uncomfortable feeling.

The other thing is your own attention. In the first minute, I slowly scanned my body, starting from the little toes and going up. But as time went by, my attention slowly shifted to other things. I thought about some of my experiences yesterday, and about women. A friend’s words also reminded me of what needs to be improved at work. Realizing that his attention had wandered away, he quickly returned to scanning his body, but after a while his attention was still focused on other things. In the first 20 minutes or so, I kept scanning and shifting my attention. In the next five minutes, I kept correcting my back straight, and then waited for the time to run out.

Today, I felt it when my attention shifted for the first time, but I still let my attention focus on other things. In this way, I thought about the thing I was thinking about and slowly discovered these things. It's joyful to be able to think about things from another angle. It feels like I can control my attention and know what kind of state I am in.

Tomorrow’s small goal: correct the position of the hands and straighten the back. The best way is to pull the neck. This is an important action essential for military posture and goose step!

D3? Thoughts on meditation

I meditated for three consecutive days today and I feel much better than the previous two days. The specific points are as follows:

1) I don’t feel like I am staying up for 25 minutes, the time goes by very quickly, and the feeling of numbness in my feet comes later, even though I adjust my sitting posture. to achieve.

2) After feeling that my back was not straight yesterday, I deliberately changed it today. I straightened my back in a military posture and leaned back slightly, so that my legs would not be too numb due to pressure.

3) Today I ran first and then meditated after I came back from running. Before, I meditated first and then ran. This would cause pain in my legs when meditating, making running more difficult. But I should meditate after I come back from running. , the body is also in a relaxed state, and the legs are not pressed down and unable to run. Secondly, it is important to get up early. There are not too many noisy cars in the world of running, and there are not too many interruptions in meditation.

The meditation continues by scanning the body, from the little toe to the big toe, the soles of the feet, the tops of the feet, and the ankles. As the scanning continues, the attention will spread. At first I thought of my comrades who were hiking. Yesterday, I told my eldest brother to go to Beijing. I got together with two comrades in Beijing and took a group photo. When I saw the photos, I missed everyone in our team even more. Although we come from all over the country, the life of hiking together is unforgettable, and these comrades will also be missed in my life!

After I found that my attention was gone, I started to focus on scanning my body, knees, tibia below the knee, menisci, etc. When I think of shins, I think of ancient horse-riding battles and people who cut off the legs of horses. Yes, the horse will not die directly with one blow, but will be trampled to death by the horses and soldiers coming from behind. I can't help but think of the cruelty of war.

Continue to return your attention and scan your body, thighs, muscles, waist, and abdomen.

But when I think about my waist and abdomen, I also lament. I don't drink and I exercise regularly, but I don't have abdominal muscles but there is just a piece of fat? In fact, the part that is exercised is not the waist and abdomen. Running is my favorite way. Sit-ups are the best way to exercise the waist and abdomen. You may need to change your way of exercising, and you may also have a weight loss goal in mind. In fact, you don’t need to lose weight, you just need to lose fat and gain muscle. Four words are easy to write but require long-term accumulation and persistence!

Continue scanning the body slowly upwards, but it will still affect concentration. I thought that yesterday was the day when 007 handed in his homework. A comrade in our class voluntarily quit, but later chose to come back with my encouragement. Yesterday’s homework rain, I specifically did not remind him to hand in his homework, just to see if he submitted it on time. . He handed in his homework around 6:30, and when he clicked on it, he saw that it was the homework he had stored last year. But it’s okay, I know he is very busy recently, and he never compromises. Every article he writes will be written seriously and it will take a long time. But he definitely didn’t have time to write this time, so he submitted articles from previous years. I also plan to comment on his articles in this issue in addition to the two articles that must be commented, and encourage him to continue to stay in 007 and not be left behind.

The thing that disturbed my concentration the most today was probably a mosquito. My house does not have mosquito screens, nor does I use mosquito-killing and repellent mosquito-repellent liquids. So there are a lot of small mosquitoes accompanying me at home. I have been abstaining from killing animals for more than five years (I will write an article to express my views and practices on killing animals), including mosquitoes that bite me. It’s best to meditate without being disturbed, but the buzzing of mosquitoes really bothered me. At this time, I took advantage of the ability of special meditation training - metacognition. I felt that mosquitoes disturbing me was a test for me, whether I could withstand external interference and continue to stay focused. Seniors say that the highest level of meditation is in a noisy street. You sit cross-legged and meditate alone, achieving no self and no world. So why fear a mosquito?

As my legs hurt in the last few minutes, I adjusted my sitting position and felt a little bit like I was waiting for the time. The rest of the time I felt pretty good. The alarm clock rang within less than a minute and I woke up. .

D4? A brief reflection on meditation

This article is about recalling yesterday’s meditation state.

It still lasted 25 minutes, but after seeing my friend’s meditation experience, I subconsciously adjusted my attention and breathing. Because it is entry-level, breathing is very important rather than learning to scan the body and focus at the beginning. As long as you find that your attention has wandered, you can come back and continue scanning.

I also have some understanding of the breathing method. Long exhale and long inhale, the breath should be inhaled into the Dantian, and using breathing to adjust concentration is also a good method.

The content I was thinking about was a chat I had with a client friend the day before. He is the vice president of Shagang here, and his wife is a university teacher. His eldest daughter is studying in college in Los Angeles, USA, and he himself is also a graduate student of the older generation. I can learn and grow every time I chat with him, but I didn’t record it in depth before. He said why children should receive the best education, because only what is in the brain is the real thing. With ideas and creativity, there will be many things that can be done in the future life. Money, house, and relatives will not be hers in the end, only the knowledge learned. Even if there is money for her, but she has no ambition to make progress and does not have the wisdom to use money, putting money in her pocket will actually harm her, because having unexpected wealth will make a person lose himself.

I listened to what he said and understood it very clearly. Even without spiritual freedom, physical freedom will slowly disappear. Your spirit is free and creative. Even if you have passed away in the future, your spirit can still become a kind of wealth and be passed down.

Meditation is a good way to exercise mental strength. I think I am lucky. I can make my spiritual world healthy and wealthy, and I will live a happy life in the future.

D5? Meditate and think

Time always needs to be allocated by yourself, otherwise you will not have any time for yourself. I squeezed out time today and still meditated for 25 minutes. There is no background music, just focus on breathing and concentration.

Yesterday we listened to Professor Shanyou’s annual class in Shanghai, and we continue to do so today. The content of the day yesterday made me very happy, because I made the right choice to attend the class. I heard the knowledge I wanted to hear, which gave me more in-depth thinking (the specific content will be compiled based on today’s study).

But what I want to express is the party last night. Yesterday and today there was a 007 personal brand sharing meeting in Shenzhen. I didn’t get a ticket and the time was conflicting. But after I came to Shanghai to attend the class, I found that I was studying chaos class. There are also many 007ers, and many of them are acquaintances. We got together for dinner in the evening, and there happened to be a venue after dinner (a small venue for Chaos offline classes). We made an appointment to do some self-introductions and a small personal brand sharing session, and also shared our videos with the Shenzhen department.

What attracts me most is the Breakfast Prince Hou Ge. I heard his sharing when I first joined 007. Because he was so awesome, I didn’t even dare to add him on WeChat at that time. But after communicating together yesterday, I found that he was very friendly and not aloof. Maybe this is the tradition of 007! His sharing also inspired me a lot, including Brother Zai Fei, Brother Da Hui, etc.

But the biggest reward was that Brother Hou’s girlfriend Gege shared her meditation experience.

Brother Hou traveled with his girlfriend, joined 007 and learned chaos together. I also invited my girlfriend to attend this sharing session. Gege stayed in a temple in Fujian for ten days for meditation. She handed over her mobile phone and was completely isolated from the world. She ate vegetarian food every day (it was said to be very delicious, with twice the amount of food), and there were people waiting on her. She just needed to take good care of herself. Just meditate. The ten days of meditation went through three stages. The first was breathing. Over three days, I slowly adjusted the correct breathing method; then there was perception. I felt my body and found that I could feel the head and limbs, but not the front, abdomen or back. It was difficult to perceive; in the end, I slowly learned the true experience of meditation. After ten days of seclusion and practice, the moment I got my mobile phone, it felt very strange. It turns out that another way of life without contact with the outside world will change a person's perception of the outside world. I also had the experience of being isolated from the outside world on my phone for a day, which made me feel very relaxed and natural.

From her meditation experience, I learned the basic precautions and practice methods of meditation. Today’s meditation pays more attention to breathing and attention. After a period of time, learn to feel your body and learn to pay attention back.

(The subway is at the station, so I won’t elaborate on what I shared here!)

007 boss Qin Jie said that we all grew up "coerced". Yes, every time I share with 007er, I grow differently, and I gradually like to grow up in a coercive way!

D6? Thoughts on meditation

I didn’t insist on getting up early. When I woke up, I found that a lot of time had passed. I immediately sat up and finished meditating in bed. I didn’t want to be late again!

It still lasts 25 minutes, but this time I paid more attention to my footwork, that is, how to avoid pressing my legs when I cross my legs. It is very painful. Numbness is normal at that time, but long-term pain may be caused by wrong movements. I wanted to do it instead of following the standard meditation, but I was worried that it would not be effective. When I was thinking about it, I still stayed in the cross-legged position before.

I had a day off yesterday, and today I find it difficult to concentrate. Even after my attention has gone, I still don’t notice that I am still in the "dream". This needs continuous improvement!

Reflection on yesterday, after joining 007 on New Year’s Day, I lived a fulfilling life almost every day, reading books, listening to books, etc. But yesterday I was not busy at work, so I was very leisurely hanging out with my relatives, chatting, etc. In the afternoon, we went fishing together. It was euphemistically called "meditation", but in fact it was just a lazy day. It wasn’t until I got home around 9pm that I realized I had wasted a whole day. Then I decided to put my phone on silent mode and read for an hour. The gains in concentration during this hour were quite huge. It’s okay to plan to digest this book that I haven’t had time to read on its first anniversary.

I also have some thoughts about why I relaxed and was lazy all day yesterday. Firstly, I am not too busy at work during the holidays; secondly, I feel a little tired and want to take a rest; thirdly, when my relatives are together at home, I become more and more excited when chatting with them, forgetting that I still have a lot of things to do. The most important thing is that there is no sense of urgency. It is difficult to make a little progress day by day, but it is easy to take a big step back. Maintaining continuous improvement requires strong perseverance.

Yesterday, my friends were chatting about first principles in the group. Everyone has their own opinions. My opinion is that this principle must be related to work, and work needs to use it. What exactly it is needs to be found. Just like Google received an order from the Ministry of Defense to develop a software for precision strikes, but this principle violated the first principles of the company, and in the end the project was not implemented. If it were me, I would choose this way, but in real life, a company may need such a large order to come back to life.

Use first principles to cross discontinuities and achieve second curve growth. This is the core of Professor Shanyou's lecture. My understanding is that after a company has the first curve of growth, it needs to look ahead to see the future development direction, and build a second curve framework when the first curve of growth occurs.

The amount of knowledge on first principles is huge and needs to be sorted out!

D7? Thoughts on Meditation

Today I got up on time at 5:30 according to the alarm clock, and then I woke up and started meditating without giving myself a chance to be too lazy to go to bed. Of course, there are quite a lot of work arrangements this morning!

The timer is still 25 minutes. Today I changed my posture to meditate. I used to sit with a soft cushion but I canceled it this morning because the correct way of meditating is without a soft cushion and cannot be continued for comfort. It's wrong to do this.

Let’s talk about some thoughts during meditation today. In fact, I didn’t think much today, and I focused more on myself. But I thought about something I dreamed about at night: I got pregnant and gave birth to a son during my marriage.

My memory of the things in the dream is not complete, let’s talk about the remembered parts. After getting married, my lover is too thin and in poor health, so I have to postpone having children for a few years. But less than half a year later, she unexpectedly became pregnant. Worried that her health would not be able to handle it, she went to the hospital for a checkup and was told that it was best not to keep the child. But my wife and I were very reluctant to let go of the child. At this time, the doctor said that the baby could be transferred to my belly to conceive the child. This is a new technology - male surrogacy.

After discussing with my lover, we decided not to end the little guy’s life through surrogacy. After completing all the transfer operations in the hospital, I became a baby daddy. There are rare cases of male surrogacy, so I have to be careful at all times.

A few months later, I went to the hospital to successfully give birth. I deeply remember how small the little guy was when he was born, with fair skin and dark eyes. I didn't seem to have the same pain as a woman giving birth, so I directly picked up the new member of the family. At this time, my lover was in tears!

I have never read "The Three-Body Problem", but I have such an imagination! I don't know what the dream means? But I believe life is precious!

When meditating, I am awake and thinking about this matter.

I think there are several reasons: first of all, we cannot abort a little life. Since life is given, we should try to keep it; secondly, there is such medical technology that can transfer embryonic bodies; finally, I have the opportunity to try to get pregnant. Experience!

Thanks for reading, see you next time!