Three levels of tranquility
Quiet is one of the important contents of qigong practice. Silence is the key for practitioners to get the effect, and the effect of practice depends on the degree of silence. The level of kung fu can almost be measured by the depth of silence of those who work hard. The depth of spiritual meditation is related to the speed and skill of kung fu progress.
Entering silence is also called virtual silence. Quiet is a state of peace of mind, concentration, relaxation and comfort, and orderly mind in the process of qigong practice. People's static state is different from normal waking state, and it is also different from sleeping state, and it is not wholeheartedly, because it also maintains the ideological activities of exercising. Because each alchemist's situation is different, each set of techniques requires different things, so the degree of quietness can be divided into high and low and fast. Quiet state is also related to personal accomplishment, nerve type, age, gender, culture and so on. Generally speaking, people with good self-cultivation who are not easy to fluctuate because of the stimulation of external factors are easy to be quiet; Neurotype belongs to inhibition type, and it is easy to go into silence; Excited type is difficult to be quiet; People with high virtue tend to be quiet; It is difficult for people with poor morals to be quiet.
There are various ways to enter silence, but the principle is the same. All meditation methods are to seek peace of mind, so that the mind can concentrate on one point. To really meet the requirements of quietness, we must work hard and step by step, and we can't rush headlong into it. There is no shortcut. With the deepening of qigong practice, the degree of quietness gradually presents different levels. Generally speaking, entering silence can go through three steps and reach three levels.
The first step: one thought replaces all thoughts and reaches the initial stage of silence. The hardest thing for a novice is to calm down. The more they try to calm down, the more they think about it. They are at a loss, and all the scenery is still vivid when they close their eyes. Usually, acrobatics practitioners choose substitution method, that is, the method of thinking all the time to induce people to be quiet. If you think about ideas, you can think about blue sky and white clouds, mountains and rivers, forests and flowers. Obey the law and lead your thoughts to Baihui, Zhongshan, perineum and Yongquan. Count your breath, meditate on your breath or listen to your breathing, and so on. Reading methods, from one to ten, repeated counting, etc. There are also methods such as twisting beads, chanting scriptures, chanting Buddhist names, etc ... Through the above methods, the exercisers' distractions are relatively reduced, and under the guidance of exercise, they feel comfortable and emotionally stable during the exercise process, and often feel mild gas, such as light, heavy, hot, cold, numb, itchy and moving.
For beginners or lower-level people, the transitional cultivation method of replacing all thoughts with one thought can only make the chaotic thoughts on the altar converge and bind the "spirit of one thought" However, after entering the primary stage of quietness, we must not cling to the shortcomings, otherwise it will hinder the in-depth development of quietness and the improvement of skills, and it is difficult to achieve a higher level of quietness.
The second step: abandon their desires and clarify their hearts. Reach the intermediate quiet stage. Getting started is easy, but getting into the business is difficult. It is not easy to get into a quiet environment. After the quiet primary stage, the alchemist is only a temporary substitute, but it can't last long, and there are still impurities in his heart. This is more delusion, more thinking. If you want to be greedy, you will be greedy. If you think too much, you will feel nothing. The way is to stop observing, close your mind, practice meditation, control your mind with your heart, understand your mind with your heart, get rid of all troubles, calm your mind, and turn off separation until you get into a good situation. At this time, I put aside my distractions and felt at ease. Self-cultivation is the law, and unintentional practice is humanity.
Practicing silence is a slow and long effort. Often when I think about it, my distractions will come back, but "I'm not afraid to think about it, I'm afraid I'll feel late", and I want to "feel it when I think about it, but feel it when I don't". To achieve spiritual liberation, you must be indifferent to the scenery and things, that is, your heart should not be led by the scenery. Liberation means that you have found eternal life. Therefore, in practice, we should take the attitude of turning a blind eye, listening but not smelling, keeping our eyes open, listening but not smelling, and listening but not smelling. "Jing Ke Jing Ke" says: "I want to be quiet, and my heart is clear." Extinguishing desire is natural and quiet, God condenses gas, is full of gas, and God is conscious and gathers gas, all in silence. If you don't want it, you will be just, and if you want it, there is nothing you can do. The spirit is unclear and the god is uneasy, and the god is uneasy and achieves nothing. If you have no distractions, you will feel at ease if you think less, and your kung fu will gradually become superior in the unconscious selfless desire.
This is not only a good way to be quiet, but also a leap in skill. At this level, the alchemist will think that harmony is the space, and establish the mystery of *. The body and mind are floating, living alone, and full of gas. There will be various scenes, that is, from heat to light, from light to image. Before the beautiful scenery, everything is moving, surpassing natural forces, looking back at the inside, showing the inside and seeing many images. Such as lightning, floating repair, Changhong, rising sun, hook sun or colorful light, smell strange incense, and even see Buddha statues. Appear outside, or hear someone talking, and so on. In this regard, we should realize that these scenes are the reflection of human nature and nature under Qigong. Practitioners, don't be surprised, surprised, pursuing or lusting after all the scenery, in case people are possessed. All special phenomena are the mutual transformation and interaction of matter, energy and information, and must not be mystified, let alone propagate feudal superstition, so as to achieve real physical and mental liberation and get the true meaning of the universe.
The third step: practice morality all the time and achieve advanced tranquility. From quiet to advanced stage, exercisers mainly cultivate sentiment. Self-cultivation, resulting in special effects. Xiu De is the fundamental principle of qigong practice, and the success or failure of qigong practice depends on the quality of moral cultivation. Those who are interested in learning Taoism should not only cultivate their morality and cultivate their nature, but also learn from Xiu De. The ancients said, "Three thousand internal skills are easy to get, but eight hundred amateurs are difficult to achieve. Three thousand internal skills, self-cultivation, eight hundred laymen, Xiu De. " A man of practice only practices skills but not morality, just like storing water and opening floodgates to release water. If they only plough and don't plough, they will cut off the source of living water, which is useless. Work comes from virtue, and virtue is the source of work. As a virtue of inner cultivation, in its sense, virtue is harvest. If you raise morality, you will make progress; if you don't raise morality, you will lose your work. Morality is the power of the soul, and morality can make up for the defects of wisdom. In short, if Xiu De doesn't practice, he will die with a sieve. If he doesn't practice, he will be possessed. Is there "Gao Tao's long bend, morality attaches importance to ghosts and gods" in Daomen Minglian?
The key to moral cultivation is to practice morality. Ideas alone are not enough, and practicing morality requires perseverance.
Eighteen tricks of meditation (1) Find the spirit first.
The meaning of this sentence is: Qi is born in Yin. Shining on Yin stilts under divine light is easy to induce internal qi. Yinqiao is one of the eight veins. As far as the eight odd meridians are concerned, if the Yinqiao veins are connected, then all the eight odd meridians are connected. Yinqiao is located at Yin Hui Point, which is the key point of natural gas production. Yin passes through a pulse, up to the Mud Pill Palace and down to the Yongquan, and the accumulation and dispersion of qi is completely closed. Those who get it are light and healthy, weak and strong, and intoxicated. If it's just to get angry, then simply nourish yin.
(B) the tongue out of the palate and metaphysical meditation
Let's talk about the upper jaw of the tongue column.
Generally speaking, most exercises say that the tongue "touches" the upper jaw, and some say that the tip of the tongue gently touches the upper gum. The purpose of this practice is to connect the two meridians of Ren and Du and produce body fluid at the same time. Benefiting from my experience, if the tip of the tongue lightly touches the upper jaw or gums, the effect of oral body fluid is not obvious. Looking up relevant historical materials, we talk about "the tongue column on the palate" and emphasize "gradually blocking the throat", which means that the tongue should hold the palate like a column in the process of contacting the palate, and the tip of the tongue should gradually move to the end of the soft palate, close to the throat, and finally settle here.
Using this method to practice, although the tongue is somewhat unnatural at first, it quickly adapts to it, and body fluid can appear more obviously. If we cooperate with Xuan Ying's observation, the effect of promoting liquid production will be more obvious. Whether a method produces body fluid in early training is an important symbol of a skill.
Let's talk about observing the occult.
Xuan Ying is the midpoint of sublingual collaterals, which lies between sublingual Yu Ye and Jinjin. In some acupuncture books, mysterious acupoints are marked as sea springs. Xuan Ying's first point is the sea of body fluid, the source of sublimation. If we can observe Xuan Ying from an inner perspective, it will be a real refinement and natural promotion. Gold liquid and jade liquid are not only effective phenomena in practice, but also a good medicine. Washing the whole body after swallowing the abdomen has a good effect on getting rid of diseases, strengthening the body and nourishing the body. Students who can't practice martial arts often make their tongues dry and straight. After observing the mystery, the problem was solved.
(c) Forms of health and integrity
The basic requirements of physical adjustment in practice are: "Regular body is loose", "Irregular gas is not smooth, which leads to restlessness, and restlessness will lead to gas dispersion". The shape is neat and vigorous, with indomitable and inclusive spirit in silence, and unstoppable trend in motion. Many people don't pay attention to this problem when practicing, so it's easy to make big mistakes when crossing the hurdle every Sunday. In practice, from the tail to the ridge, there is often a fork in the road, which the ancients called the "cross street", and there will be a fierce and angry character, even nonsense, singing that the world has the greatest ability, and running amok, leading to ruin and being abandoned. Therefore, we must pay attention to form and correctness when practicing acrobatics. Specifically, when adjusting your body, you should hold out your chest and pull out your back, pull out every joint, hang your head in the air as if your head is in the sky and your body is hanging in the air, and then fold your pelvis and coccyx slightly forward. If you are sitting on a plate, you should put a 10 cm thick pad under your ass to ensure your integrity. If you sit in a chair, you should lean forward. If you just sit by the chair, you can pull yourself up.
(d) a lawless smile.
All Chinese martial arts require smiling when practicing. Laughter has three special effects on practice.
First of all, laughter is the best way to relax. When people laugh, their chins move down. This part of the downward movement is the key to human relaxation. On the contrary, grit your teeth means nervousness, and excessive nervousness is harmful to your health. The way to relax people from nervousness is to laugh.
Second, laughter is the key to entering a mindless state. When people laugh, their brains go blank.
Third, laughter is the secret of lifting anus and shrinking kidney. When people laugh, there is an obvious feeling of lifting the anus and shrinking the kidney, as if there is a force in the abdomen spreading all over the body. It can promote blood circulation, prevent venous congestion and enhance anal resistance, and has obvious therapeutic effects on hemorrhoids, anal fissure, proctoptosis, constipation, gynecological diseases and urinary system diseases.
Persist in smiling every day and exercise the muscles around the kidneys, which will make the whole pelvic cavity elastic and be beneficial to the blood supply of genitals. Keep the exuberant activity of the external kidney and the internal kidney, the whole body will be stronger and the life span will be naturally prolonged.
(5) Reflection and abstinence from greed.
Many scholars know that they are observing the abdomen attentively, but they don't know that the word "observing attentively" actually means looking back at the inside with their eyes. Internal vision is the combination of vision and mind, and then you can see where you want to go and which acupuncture point you want to see.
Introspection is the only way for high-level cultivation. People who practice blindly don't know the secret. They regard some of the light they see outside their bodies as magical things and are unwilling to give up, instead of looking back at the photos inside with effort. The height of qigong practice is the appearance of Yang God, which is formed by practicing Guang Tai, which was also called "Daotai" by the ancients. It is expressed in the form of Qi Guang Tai. This kind of light is an inner light, an energy. This light must be produced by the intersection of heart and qi. Therefore, looking back is not only to look inside, but also to bring your senses and thoughts to the corresponding acupoints. Li Shizhen once said, "The inner tunnel can only be seen by visitors." If you don't look back, there will be no internal vision function. Without the function of internal vision, it is difficult to understand the meridians and acupoints of human body. "If you don't know the meridians for treating diseases, it is wrong to open your mouth." More importantly, it is difficult to reach the other side without entering the top. Therefore, the ancients said: "The other side is not far away, which is not only a return to light." As long as you grasp introspection when you are inside, you will soon have a sense of light, and you can ask the Olympiad in one step. Without looking back, it is difficult to have eye function.
The function of binocular vision is determined by the physiological mechanism of binocular vision in human body. "The machine is in the eye" and "Man and God are born in the eye". From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the essence of the five internal organs comes from the eyes. In practice, we always look at ourselves with two eyes, whether it is to learn from the scriptures, have sex, cook, take a bath, keep warm, have a baby or be born, because our eyes are intentional and our spirit is intentional.
It is a common problem for scholars to look at the external light before their eyes. The more greedily you look at this light and appreciate this washing, the more you will be consumed. After practicing, the eyes are not radiant and clear, but dim and fuzzy, and the disadvantages are obvious.
(6) Sitting for a long time requires meditation.
Many of our classmates can't sit still. After sitting for an hour, you can't practice any more. It's hard to settle down, and it's even harder to be enlightened. Note: As long as you can sit still and relax, you can calm down and become wise within a certain period of time. When you stop, your breath will come true. All kinds of real machines and realms, such as porch opening and Xuanzang, take a long time to appear. If you don't sit at the end, you will be abandoned in the middle of practice.
(7) The way to establish the foundation is clear and definite.
Acupoints and acupoints of human body are the hidden parts of human body's special functions, and also the rehabilitation center of human body's cross systems. Whether seeking fitness effect or developing human potential, we should know that it can be obtained through specific acupoints and related exercises. Therefore, to practice acrobatics, we should not only know the law, but also know the acupoints of the human body. Different manipulations have different acupoints. The wrong use of acupoint orifices will not achieve the purpose of cultivation.
When the acupoints are found correctly, there will be a unique pleasure and feeling for each acupoint. Traditional inner alchemy emphasizes that the first element of inner alchemy is to distinguish the tripod, and requires practitioners to understand the key and expert status of inner alchemy and build a foundation based on this.
Take the acupoints below Dantian as an example, there are dozens of viewpoints, among which there are no fewer than dozens of famous ones, such as one inch two in umbilical cord, one inch three in umbilical cord, three products in umbilical cord, three before and seven after umbilical cord, seven after three before umbilical cord, one inch two below umbilical cord, two inches two below umbilical cord, four fingers below umbilical cord, perineum, Yongquan, Mingmen and two kidneys. Which one is right?
From the use of the lower abdomen, it can be divided into the part of keeping the orifices for fitness and medical treatment and the part of inner alchemy. The key parts of fitness and medical treatment are only to gather qi and generate energy, dredge meridians and balance yin and yang, so as to achieve the purpose of getting rid of diseases and strengthening the body. In this way, it is not necessary to carefully observe the specific position of the field list, and the application of fuzzy theory is more conducive to the seemingly defensive practitioners, avoiding sticking to the rules and learning and practicing easily. From the perspective of practicing Neidan, we must make clear the specific position of Dantian, because practicing Neidan must follow a strict degree, choose the best route and the position that is most likely to produce knot, nurture, nurture and trance-like life energy. Otherwise, although there is energy, there is no medicine needed for alchemy, and nothing can be achieved; Or because the location is far away, you can practice special functions, but it is not convenient to start or push on the shortest route and part, and it will be difficult to succeed because of high consumption.
It is the actual effect and purpose of basic acrobatics, not the positioning error. Everyone's specific situation is different, and the skills they have learned are different, so naturally they will have different feelings. From the navel along a longitudinal region of Ren meridian, Dan can be formed in any part, but the three acupoints of navel, Guanyuan and Youqiao have the strongest sense of qi, and the comprehensive efficacy of navel is the best among these three parts. Wei Chijing did acupuncture practice in "Research on Exploration Practice of Dantian Site". Acupuncture at Shenque (navel) can produce a radial induction path that follows the meridian, supervises Shenque, meridians around Mingmen and inclines to the chest and abdomen, but acupuncture at Qihai, Guanyuan and Yinqiao has no similar effect. Therefore, Xiadantian is located in the navel, which is the best position.
The navel can be divided into two parts: one inch and two inches, the first three points and seven points, and two kidneys. According to my practice experience, the body cavity behind the navel is the strongest in the first three points and seven points, and slightly below the kidneys. The ancients called this part Mingmen, and this Mingmen is not Mingmen point. It is invisible, resides in the body, and is the midpoint, pole and center of gravity of the whole body. This part is where our Xia Dantian is. If you are looking for this part, you can relax your body upright and then experience this midpoint with your mind. You can use your tongue to slide slowly in your mouth, treat your mouth as an abdominal cavity, slide your tongue to detect it, and then feel the midpoint. Tongue is like a mouse looking for something on the screen and finding purlin br/& gt；; Truth, and then * * * with both sides * * abide by the rules of life, in this way, as an ordinary person, although can't reveal all, but through the other five links.
This time, we have taught the students what this level usually doesn't involve, or what we can't talk about all. The practice of Qigong is different from that of Wushu, which means "practicing one skill a day and not relaxing for ten days", while the practice of Qigong, in addition to its own efforts, sometimes depends on enough break. People who have listened to today's lesson can avoid many detours and save a lot of precious time, and walk from one step to the next. In fact, this is already prolonging life.
Note: The above information is for reference only. If you want to follow it, do not hesitate. There are many ways to retreat. To sum up the essentials, we have to put aside all sources and concentrate on it. In fact, this is already prolonging life.
If you master these eighteen secrets, you can go in and out freely and keep them freely. If the purpose is to get rid of diseases, strengthen the body and prolong life, it is enough to master these contents. If you master these methods, all kinds of diseases will naturally be fine. If you want to further inquire about the olympiad, this book "eighteen secrets of closed doors" will also go up the stairs. It is not only the foundation, but also an essential element to accompany your future practice. I hope that these eighteen secrets of closing doors can play a role in eliminating diseases, strengthening the body, prolonging life and further exploring the mysteries of the human body.
Matters needing attention in practice are determined according to each person's different achievement methods, but there are some common prohibitions:
1) is how to deal with deviation in practice.
2) Choose a place with flowers and plants when practicing, and avoid plants, poor air, dark places, thunder and rain.
3) Don't practice within 3 hours after meals, be eager for quick success and instant benefit, practice without breathing, don't work after work, and practice too much.
4) Avoid spicy food.
Practicing internal skills, qigong and internal skills is an important I-valve to open channels and collaterals, walk qi and blood, and open up wisdom and potential, and is an indispensable part of skill improvement.
Qigong is divided into hard qigong and fitness qigong, which is a cultural inheritance of using qi to strengthen the body and defeat the enemy.