Buddhist Revelation Buddhist retreat practice "Meditation Seven", what is going on?

In Buddhist Zen Buddhism, there is an extremely grand feast of practice, which is the "Seven Meditations". Of course, many ordinary people may not have heard of it, but everyone has seen scenes and descriptions of closing and cultivating from at least some film and television dramas or novels. In addition to daily meditation, the "Meditation Seven" held during the coldest time of the year is one of the practices passed down to pay tribute to Shakyamuni's Bodhi tree.

So, what is the so-called retreat and "seven retreats"?

The Buddhist retreats, meditation sevens, Buddha seven, etc., all involve a "seven" word, the seven of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, etc., let me explain this seven, this seven is the seventh consciousness, not the seven days, the Buddha seven is also the seven consciousnesses, the seven meditations are also the seven consciousnesses, not the seven days. Meditation seven means to destroy the seventh consciousness. What is the seventh consciousness? If we want to arrange it, the seven Buddhist consciousnesses are the eyes, ears, noses, tongues, body, consciousness, and the last consciousness, and the last consciousness is the seventh consciousness. The manifestation of the last knowledge is the ego of coexistence. Its manifestation is my centered view, my statement, my thoughts, my thoughts...... Therefore, the imagination that unfolds around me is called the seventh consciousness.

So what is the sixth consciousness? The sixth consciousness is the analytical consciousness, which distinguishes between right and wrong, good and evil, good and bad, it is analysis, and dividing a matter into two parts is analytical consciousness, which is the sixth consciousness.

What about the fifth consciousness? It is the body consciousness, the body has the function of touch, and it can feel cold and heat, numbness, etc., which is the body consciousness, which is the fifth consciousness.

What is the fourth consciousness? The tongue has a sense of taste and can taste sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty. Give you an apple, click on it, oh, it's a sweet apple. This is called tongue consciousness, and what the tongue recognizes is the fourth consciousness.

What about the third consciousness? It is the nose consciousness, the nose can smell all the smells, the fragrances it smells, the smells it smells, any smell it smells, and you can judge what this smell smells like. When you smell a mushy smell, you know that something is burnt, this is the nose consciousness, the third consciousness.

The second consciousness is the ear consciousness, all the sounds that the ears can hear, can distinguish what this sound is, the sound of wind, thunder or the sound of an airplane, the sound of a motorcycle or a car, you can distinguish it, this is called ear awareness, it is the second consciousness.

The first consciousness is the eye consciousness, and you can see all kinds of things, which is the first consciousness.

Therefore, this seventh consciousness has a very clear division of labor, what is the seventh consciousness? In fact, it is a self, a self-centered consciousness, called the seventh consciousness.

The so-called "seven meditations", seven is to knock out the seventh consciousness without me, this is called seven meditations. When we meditate and retreat, we close these consciousnesses. Retreat is to close these "consciousnesses", close the eyes, and not let them see; Close the ears and don't let it listen; Keep your nose closed so it doesn't smell...... So, retreat creates such an environment for you to enter your own emptiness as soon as possible, and this is called retreat.

So, why retreat?

We think that people have two sides, and retreat is to prove that you don't have the "non" side, you have this body, this is on the level of "being", and you definitely have the level of "non-being". Let me confirm that there is no "no" level. Why confirm the level of "no"? You put a question mark: what's good for me? I have confirmed my side, what good is it for me?

On the other side, it is nothing, it is empty, it is neither born nor extinguished, nor does it increase or decrease. When you confirm yourself that you are the one who does not, that you have never died, never lived, never lived. It is like flowing water, flowing all the time. In the process of its flow, you are just a small wave that arises in this life, and then it disappears, and you rise again with a second small wave, and then you rise up with a third small wave, and you find that the birth and death of your own body are just a phenomenon. The true self has never been born and never perished. This is your side. You confirm the existence of the other side of you. When you truly confirm the existence of the other side of you, you will no longer be leveling the good harmony ring of your inner body. You don't care what happens to your body anymore.

There are three questions in the philosophical world: Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going? Once you confirm our thing, all three problems will be solved at once.

So, are there any conditions for retreat?

First of all, it is necessary to be reasonable, unreasonable retreat is useless, and unreasonable retreat has no direction. The second is voluntary, if you are reluctant, it is useless to retreat. Everything is voluntary, self-cultivation, self-realization, self-realization, and self-realization. Third, there are no major diseases, infectious diseases and diseases that prevent oneself and others from being quiet. Fourth, they must have legal documents to prove their identity and be willing to accept routine inspections by the public security department, and fifth, they must be between the ages of 15 and 70.

Understanding the truth is to understand the truth: first establish that you have a "heart", the heart is the carrier of all concepts, and all concepts are the "things" carried in the heart. Usually people regard the "things" they carry as themselves, that is, they regard the concepts established in daily life as themselves, and "forget" what is originally their own heart or their true self. So we live in the fall. The purpose of retreat is to bring back the original "place", which is what we call the clear principle.

So, what is the method of retreat?

First of all, wear moderate clothes, and try not to change clothes when eating, going to the office, or sleeping: it is forbidden to wash your face, brush your teeth, and wash your hair; Prohibit large movements such as walking around and exercising, reduce activities, which is conducive to purification and avoid affecting others.

You must know three sentences, "know that there is a thought, know that there is no thought, just know it". And in one sentence, "Just know that you have a thought", you naturally know. When the thought rises quietly, knowledge also arises at the same time, and knowledge penetrates into every detail with the content of the thought. When knowing that knowledge follows the thought, the content of the recitation will be interrupted, and after the interruption, there will be no thought, because there is no thought, the knowledge also disappears, and in the hundredth of a second when the knowledge disappears, two thoughts will arise, and after the thought arises, the knowledge will turn with the thought, and after half an hour, it will suddenly be found that the knowledge is changed, and the content of the reading will be interrupted again, and the knowledge will disappear again after the thought is broken, and there will be a second of thoughtlessness at this time. In this way, the state of mindlessness slowly lengthened. When the state of no thought is more than a minute, you will find that the content of the thought is discovered before it is revealed. At this time, the state of mindlessness will be extended to a few minutes to ten minutes. When you reach this point, it is easy to understand emptiness. After the emptiness of the contractual person, the real practice begins. This method can be used at home with the same effect.

Even in a closed room, don't deliberately meditate or anything like that, we control our minds and not do it. Control your heart, let your concept in your heart, don't move it for the time being, and reveal your true heart. It is said that it is to control the heart, this sentence is also wrong, that heart does not need to be controlled. I have to say it conveniently. Saying this wrong thing is just for convenience, easy to understand.