Chapter 46 Meditation

The content of the book is very simple, with only a few pictures of entering into a state of meditation and regulating breathing, and a few pages of mental annotations, which briefly introduce how to regulate breathing, stop breathing, enter into a state of meditation, and how to abandon distracting thoughts and enter a state of meditation where both the self and the world are forgotten.

After looking at a few pictures and a few lines of words in the book, Mo Hua hesitated to speak.

"Do you think it's simple?"

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

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

Seeing that Mo Hua was puzzled, Mr. Zhuang explained:

"Meditation is very simple if you say it's simple, but it's also very difficult if you say it's difficult. The simplicity is that all the tricks of this method are in this picture and these pages of experience, which are clear at a glance. The difficulty lies in the illusory nature of people's minds. You can't enter into a state of meditation just because you want to, or forget about the self and the world just because you want to."

Mo Hua seemed to be thinking about something, and Mr. Zhuang continued to explain:

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

"This meditation method is the same. If you can really enter a state of concentration and get rid of distracting thoughts, then you will naturally learn quickly. But if you are worried and entangled with distracting thoughts, no matter how you learn, you will not be able to learn it."

Mo Hua suddenly realized, and frowned again: "Then if I can't get rid of distracting thoughts, will I not be able to learn it?"

Mr. Zhuang smiled, "It's not as difficult as you think. I have used this meditation method for many years, and I have summarized the simplest experience of entering a state of concentration, which is only one sentence..."

"The heart is natural and does not deceive itself."

"The heart is natural and does not deceive itself..." 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 mean, no matter how unbearable it is, you must accept it calmly and don't lie to yourself."

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

Mo Hua seemed to have realized something and began to look through the "Meditation Method". After reading for a while, he suddenly asked curiously:

"Sir, if you learn the meditation method to a high level, will there be any special use?"

"No, the meditation method is always It can only allow you to enter a state of concentration and restore your spiritual consciousness. Learning to a higher level will only make you enter a state of concentration and restore your spiritual consciousness faster. And the longer you study, the better you may not necessarily learn. "

Mo Hua was stunned, "Will this get worse the more you study?"

Mr. Zhuang looked at Mo Hua meaningfully, "You are still a child now, what you see and hear, what you think and think are relatively simple, and you don't have many distracting thoughts. You may enter a state of concentration faster. When you grow up, you will see more things in this world, have more distracting thoughts, and more worldly desires. It may not be so easy to enter a state of concentration again."

Mo Hua suddenly realized.

He thought that he had seen and heard a lot, after all, he had the memory of another life.

But think about it carefully, he was in his twenties in another life, and he didn't have much experience, and he only had ten years in this life. The age of the two lives added together is much younger than Mr. Zhuang, and his experience and knowledge are incomparable. It's not wrong to say that he is a "child".

Mo Hua asked curiously, "How is your meditation now compared to before?"

Mr. Zhuang pondered for a moment and said, "I started to learn meditation when I was about 10 years old. I memorized various array theories and learned almost all the arrays within the first level. Then I started to learn meditation. I learned very quickly at first, and then until I was a teenager, I got better and better at this method. I often finished drawing an array and meditated for a cup of tea, and my consciousness was full."

"When I was young and frivolous, my mind was unstable, so my meditation method was not refined. After that, I experienced many vicissitudes of life and my mood was rough. I never calmed down, so my meditation method did not improve but regressed."

"Nowadays, I don't care about many things, but this meditation method is no longer useful..."

Mr. Zhuang was a little emotional, and when he came to his senses, he found that he had said too much unconsciously. Seeing that Mo Hua was still listening to the story with relish, he tapped Mo Hua's forehead and said, "Study hard."

"Oh," Mo Hua collected his thoughts, calmed down, and slowly studied the meditation method.

The key point of meditation is to abandon distracting thoughts, clear the mind, and enter a state of forgetting both the self and the world.

Mo Hua followed the method in the "Meditation Method" and sat in meditation, not thinking about anything, and slowly entered a state of meditation.

After entering the state of meditation, he could indeed feel relaxed all over his body, as if he had escaped the cage of the flesh, and his mind was suddenly open. The spiritual consciousness consumed by the previous formation was also slowly recovering, and the recovery speed was much faster than before.

However, Mo Hua's state of meditation was very shallow. He meditated for less than a cup of tea, and his mind was slightly floating, so he exited the state of meditation.

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

"It's not bad to be able to enter this state for the first time. Once you are proficient in the future, after drawing the formation, you only need to meditate and enter a state of meditation, and you will naturally get twice the result with half the effort."

"Thank you, sir!"

Mo Hua was very happy. Before, he could only practice formations on the monument in the sea of ​​consciousness. The progress of practicing formations during the day was very slow. Now that he has learned meditation, his consciousness can be restored as soon as possible. Even if his foundation is not as good as those of the disciples of the aristocratic families, he can make up for his shortcomings with hard work. In the future, he may not be much worse than others.

Mo Hua changed his mind and asked again: "Sir, I know the meditation method. What is the visualization method you 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 consciousness. Is the visualization method used to enhance consciousness?"

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

"Is the visualization method different from the method?"

"The visualization method is a simplified, unstable method that can increase consciousness, but it is not a method for cultivating 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 non-human "way". Once the spiritual consciousness indulges in it, there will often be extremely terrible consequences."

Mo Hua 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 speaking, 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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