How do you continue to chant after you have settled down?

Thanksgiving, Amitabha. Can I become a Taoist friend? Dare to ask ......?

Question: In my life, I meditate and think about my own mistakes, gossiping about whether people are self-alert or not, and the Buddha's name is constantly coming, but I just can't enter meditation, so how can I enter meditation?

Venerable Da'an replied: It seems that you still have an attachment and greed for concentration. Your attachment to greed is an obstacle to your concentration, which shows that you still lack the correct understanding of the merits of reciting the Buddha.

You're already settled in the middle of reciting the Buddha honestly, isn't that right? The name of this mida is Amitayus, and Amitayus is the stillness of one's own nature, which is Dharani, the king of samadhi, and has transcended ordinary meditation.

Therefore, when you recite the Buddha with all your heart, you have already entered the supreme profound meditation, as the scriptures say: if one recites the Buddha, it is the supreme profound meditation. You have settled in the Supreme Profound Meditation, but you still ask:

Why didn't I settle in? It's as if you're already in the Forbidden City, and you're asking people everywhere where Beijing is. Therefore, I still honestly recite the Buddha, no matter whether I enter the meditation or not, I cling to the name wholeheartedly, there is no Buddha outside the heart, there is no heart outside the Buddha, all worries are empty, I don't know that there is a body, I don't know the world, and I don't know that what I am doing today is a matter of practice.

If you have nothing to gain because you have attained the three bodhisattvas, you will not get anything if you have the mind. All sages and saints are distinguished by inaction. We must not use the concept of attachment in the world to seek the realm, if there is something to enter, there is something to enter, and if there is something to enter, it is far from the certainty.

The first strict samadhi posture is harmonious, everything is solid, can be eliminated, and finally to emptiness, can be emptiness, emptiness and emptiness, emptiness and emptiness, emptiness to the end, after all, there is nothing, then you can say that you have entered the Prajna meditation. Traces of Li staring.

So don't be here all the time clinging to these things, you have to treat them with nothing. Recite the Buddha honestly, don't change the topic.

Be careful not to disturb him, not to alarm him.

1. Relax. Once you've decided on a meditating posture, try to relax your body completely. If you have a meditation space at home, it will be more relaxing to start a meditation practice. If we need to build our own space every time, it can be exhausting.

2. Straighten your waist. The most important part of the meditation pose is to keep your spine straight, otherwise, you won't be able to breathe well. When meditating, the body has a tendency to drift forward or backward, and the most common mistake is leaning forward, so be vigilant and try to keep your spine straight.

3. Adjust your head and spine. Your head should be a continuation of your straight spine, imagine your spine and then adjust the back of your head so that it continues in that straight line. Another common mistake is to drift your head forward or backward, which can lead to feelings of drowsiness, so it's best to avoid.

Look upward. 4. Chest up. Usually, all we need to do to improve our meditation posture is to hold our chest up. This helps to pull the lower back inward and straighten the spine.

This advice helped me the most because my lower back was always a bit hunchbacked. Chest lift helped me take the final step and meditate with my spine straight. If you feel like you're having a problem with your posture while meditating, a chest lift is usually enough.

5. Put your hands on your knees. Place your hands, palm side up, on your knees, where your legs meet your abdomen. This helps to keep the shoulders back and keep the spine straight.

Palms up is a sign of acceptance that you are ready to transform. If your arms are long, or you're uncomfortable, place them near your knees, just taking care to keep your shoulders back and your chest up.

6. Stay still. It is important to keep our body in a meditative state, and if we allow our body to move as it pleases, it will affect our breathing and mental state, which will lead to a greater degree of mental restlessness.

7. If you feel the need to move your body, try to notice the desire to move first, but avoid actually moving, as this desire will gradually disappear over time.

It depends on how deep you are in the meditation.

Ordinary people, set a time for yourself before you settle down, and the subconscious will remind you to make a decision at the time you set.

If you are deep enough and settle deep enough, the time to settle will be long enough. One day, two days, March and May, it is possible. According to legend, the old monk of Xuyun entered the meditation for several months at a time. Bodhidharma has been in Shaolin for nine years.

There is also the Arhat (the previous life of Master Voyeur Ji) who was dug up by the monk Xuanzang (Tang Seng) on the way to the West to learn scriptures, wow, it must be thousands of years.

Therefore, how long it takes to get into the determination varies from person to person, from person to person, from kung fu to thing, and other reasons. In other words: maybe.

It's best to be able to keep the vows, and if you can't, you can also die, because the most important thing in passing away is to make a wish, and if you have a firm will, you can die. However, if a person is lost in breaking the vows, he will inevitably have insufficient faith. Therefore, we still have to devote ourselves to surviving in the West, and we will be reborn in the Pure Land with compassion and compassion, and we will definitely be able to die if we devote all our energy to it.

You can't keep the pure vows, but you have to do as much as you can, do as much as you can, and do what you can.

Question: If I can't keep the vows purely, can I recite the Buddha and pass away? A:

Theoretically! In the "Sutra of Meditation", the following people are all people who have no precepts, break the vows, and create sins and recite the Buddha at the end of their lives. However, it requires strong karma (for the cultivation of the Pure Land in previous lifetimes) and supporting conditions (having good knowledge around you at the end of your life).

It is safer to keep the vows + chant the Buddha when you have time.