Chapter 46 Meditation

The content in the book is very simple. There are only a few diagrams of breath control and a few pages of notes on mental methods. It briefly introduces how to adjust the breath, stop the breath, enter concentration, how to put aside distracting thoughts, and enter a meditative state where things and myself are forgotten.

After Mo Hua looked at the booklet with a few pictures and a few lines of words, he hesitated to speak.

"Do you think it's easy?"

Mo Hua nodded, and then asked: "Sir, is this just a basic meditation method?"

"No," Mr. Zhuang denied, "all the insights and practice methods of meditation are in this booklet."

Seeing the ink painting puzzled, Mr. Zhuang explained:

"The meditation method is naturally very simple to say it is simple, but it is very difficult to say it is difficult. The simplicity lies in the fact that all the key points of this method can be seen clearly in this picture and these pages. The difficulty lies in the ethereal nature of people's minds. "It's not like you can enter concentration just by thinking about it, or you can forget both things and me just by thinking about things."

While the ink painting was thoughtful, Mr. Zhuang continued to explain:

"For example, there are all kinds of desires in the world. They say they can see through them, but how many people can really see through them in their hearts? Some truths seem simple, and those who understand can understand them at a glance. Those who don't understand will never understand them in their lifetime, but they can't understand them. People often think they understand.”

"The same goes for this meditation method. If you can really get into concentration and get rid of distracting thoughts, you will naturally learn it quickly. But if your mind is heavy and entangled with distracting thoughts, you will not be able to learn it no matter how you learn it."

Mo Hua suddenly realized, then frowned and said, "Then if I can't get rid of distracting thoughts, I won't be able to learn.

Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "It's not as difficult as you think. I have been using this meditation method for many years, and I have summarized the simplest way to enter samadhi in just one sentence..."

"Be natural and don't deceive yourself."

"Be natural and don't deceive yourself..." Mo Hua muttered silently.

"Everything in the world is what it should be, and so is your own mind, whether it is irritable, quiet, violent, decadent, upright, or despicable, no matter how miserable it is, it must be Accept it calmly and don’t lie to yourself.”

"If you can do these two things, your mind will be as still as water and as clear as a mirror, and you will be able to more or less enter samadhi."

If Mo Hua realized something, he started to read "Meditating Method". After reading for a while, he suddenly asked out of curiosity:

"Sir, if you can meditate to a high level, will there be any special use?"

"No, the meditation method can only allow you to enter samadhi and restore your spiritual consciousness from beginning to end. If you learn advanced and profound things, it will only make you enter samadhi and restore your spiritual consciousness faster. And the longer you study, the better you will not necessarily learn."

Mo Hua was stunned, "Will this get worse as time goes by?"

Mr. Zhuang looked at the ink painting meaningfully, "You are still a child now. What you see, hear, and think is relatively simple. You don't have many distracting thoughts, and you may enter samadhi quickly. When you grow up, you will see more things in this family." Well, if there are too many distracting thoughts, there will be too many worldly desires. If you want to enter samadhi, it may not be that simple.”

Mo Hua suddenly realized.

Then I thought about what I had seen and heard. After all, I had memories from another life.

But if you think about it carefully, in another life he was in his twenties and had little experience. In this life, he only had ten years. The combined age of the two generations is much younger than Mr. Zhuang, and the experience and knowledge are incomparable. It's not wrong to say he is a "child".

Mo Hua asked curiously: "Sir, how is your current meditation method compared to before?"

Mr. Zhuang thought for a while and said: "I started to memorize various formation theories when I was about ten years old. I also learned almost all the formations within the first rank, so I started to learn the meditation method. I learned it very quickly at first, and then until When I was young, the more I learned about this technique, the better I got. Often, after drawing a formation and meditating on a cup of tea, my spiritual consciousness would be full.”

"When I was young and frivolous, my mind was restless, so I lost my vigor in meditation. Later, vicissitudes of life changed, my mood was rough, and I never calmed down, so my meditation method stopped progressing and retreated."

"Nowadays, many things have been taken lightly, but this meditation method is no longer useful..."

Mr. Zhuang was a little emotional. When he came to his senses, he realized that he had talked too much without realizing it. He looked at Mo Hua and still looked like he was listening to the story with great interest. He tapped Mo Hua on the forehead and said, "Study hard."

"Oh," Mo Hua stopped thinking, calmed down, and slowly studied the meditation method.

The main point of meditation is to put aside distracting thoughts, clear your mind, and enter a state where you forget both things and yourself.

Mo Hua followed the method in "Meditating Method" and meditated quietly, without thinking about anything, and slowly entered a state of concentration.

After entering the state of trance, you can indeed feel your whole body relaxed, as if you have been freed from the shackles of the physical body, and your mind is suddenly open. The spiritual consciousness consumed by the previous formations is slowly going back, and the recovery speed is much faster than before.

It's just that the state of meditation in ink painting is very shallow. After meditating for less than a cup of tea, my mind wandered slightly and I exited the state of meditation.

Mr. Zhuang, who had been closing his eyes to rest his mind, saw this, opened his eyes and said:

"It's not bad to be able to reach this level of concentration for the first time. Once you master it in the future, you only need to meditate and enter concentration after drawing the formation, and you will get twice the result with half the effort."

"Thank you, sir!"

Mo Hua was very happy. Before, he could only practice the formations on the monument in the Consciousness Sea. During the day, the progress of practicing the formations was very slow. Now that he has learned to meditate, his consciousness can be restored as soon as possible. Even if his background is not as good as those of disciples from aristocratic families, diligence can make up for his shortcomings, and he will be able to do better in the future. Not necessarily any worse than others.

Mo Hua changed his mind and asked again: "Sir, I know the meditation method, but what is the visualization method that sir mentioned before?"

Mr. Zhuang lay leisurely on the bamboo chair and said, "Guess what the visualization method is used for?"

Mo Hua thought for a while and said, "Meditation is used to restore spiritual consciousness, so is visualization used to enhance spiritual consciousness?"

"Yes," Mr. Zhuang nodded, "There is no method for cultivating spiritual consciousness in the cultivation world. The powerful cultivators in ancient times created visualization to enhance spiritual consciousness."

"Is visualization different from the method?"

"Visualization is a simplified, unstable method that can increase spiritual consciousness, but it is not a method for cultivating spiritual consciousness." Mr. Zhuang said.

"Spiritual power can be observed and known, it can activate spiritual tools, it can be used in Taoism, and there are veins to follow, but spiritual consciousness is different. There are no meridians in the sea of ​​consciousness of people, which can spy on the trajectory of spiritual consciousness. Therefore, there is no stable way to cultivate spiritual consciousness."

"The only way to quickly improve spiritual consciousness is to observe. Observing patterns, texts or ancient objects that contain the rules of heaven or powerful spiritual consciousness can be assimilated to a certain extent and gradually enhance spiritual consciousness."

"But this kind of visualization method varies from person to person, and the effect of cultivation is different for different people. The visualization diagrams that can be used for visualization are extremely scarce even in those aristocratic families, so they are not widely spread in the cultivation world, and cannot be promoted as a stable way of cultivation like the exercises."

"Visualization method..." Mo Hua murmured.

Mr. Zhuang hesitated for a moment, and said with a slightly serious look:

"Although the visualization method can enhance spiritual consciousness, you'd better not use it. Even if you use it, you must be careful and not rely on it completely."

Mo Hua asked in confusion: "Is it because my talent is not enough, so I will suffer a backlash?"

Mr. Zhuang shook his head, "This has nothing to do with talent. The visualization map reflects other people's spiritual consciousness and other people's understanding of the way of heaven. In other words, what is visualized is other people's "way", or some inhuman "way". Once the spiritual consciousness indulges in it, there will often be extremely terrible consequences."

Mo Hua's heart was awed.

Mr. Zhuang waved his hand, "It's too early to tell you these. You just need to concentrate on learning the formation. You may not encounter things like visualization maps in the future."

After that, Mr. Zhuang asked Mo Hua to practice meditation several times, and when it was getting dark, he let Mo Hua go back.

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