Before meditating, you need to make some preparations. First, you must first choose a quiet place without too much light to avoid being disturbed by the outside world. Second, if you meditate on a hard floor or bed, it is best to add a thin soft cushion, which will Make the meditator physically comfortable and easier to relax. Essentials of basic meditation movements: After sitting on a soft mat, you can use the natural lotus, single lotus, or double lotus. Yoga masters sit and wait, slightly swinging left and right, and feel whether the two bones of your buttocks are evenly pressed on the floor. . After sitting down, you can use your hands to form samadhi mudra, yoga mudra, etc. Keep your head upright, don't bend your waist, relax your whole body, close your eyes gently, and breathe naturally and evenly. You can focus on your breathing and carefully observe the changes between exhalations and inhalations.

For a lay practitioner who has just started to learn Buddhism, when he first practices meditation, he may encounter a lot of distracting thoughts, one thought after another, unable to enter concentration, and the heart cannot be calm at all. At this time, do not be artificial. Control, let distracting thoughts come when they come, let them go when they go, observe for yourself how these distracting thoughts arise and how they disappear, and carefully observe the changes in the birth and death of all things. Slowly, over time, your mind will become calm. When you come down and meditate, you can enter the void realm. Through practicing slowly, I can do whatever comes my way and my mind will not move. This is truly letting go, rather than suppressing it. It is impossible to suppress it and not move. Everything will return when it comes. Once it is followed, there is no need to force it, just guide it.

The above mentioned feelings are spiritual. For beginners to meditate, the most unbearable thing should be the physical discomfort. When you first learn to meditate, you will feel pain and numbness in your legs in maybe five or six minutes. If it lasts a little longer, the pain will be excruciating and unbearable for a moment. You will want to sit down immediately. At this time, do not sit down immediately. First, observe and calm down. The source of the pain, and then see if you can persist, slowly extend the time, the first time is 5 minutes, the second time is 8 minutes, and the third time is 15 minutes. As time goes by, you can sit for two or three hours. This is also Needs exercise. Of course, if you feel pain, sit down immediately. You may not be able to improve even if you meditate for a year. You have to put pressure on yourself appropriately according to your physical condition. Of course, you have to grasp a certain degree, step by step, and slowly improve.

For beginners, if conditions permit, it is best to develop the habit of meditating regularly every day. This will make it easier to enter concentration. Many people may ask why they don’t have many delusional thoughts at ordinary times, but when they meditate and enter concentration, they have more delusions. Yes, this is normal, because you are usually distracted and can’t see your thoughts moving around. Once your mind calms down a bit, you will see your thoughts moving around. What to do? How to put an end to delusional thoughts? The only way is to use the ears to capture the mind. To recite the mantra, you need to read it word by word from your heart and hear it clearly with your ears, so that you can follow the law. Therefore, the main point of meditation is to "hear with the mind and ears", to stop the delusional thoughts and enter concentration. Otherwise, if you are sitting here, chanting mantras or Buddha's names, but thinking about all kinds of things in your mind, you will not be able to enter concentration. You must listen to it with your heart and ears, and meditate with all your heart.