Zhentian coffin

The ten-day meditation is also called ten-day inner meditation, which is a way of Zen practice. I was forced by Liu Laodao to participate in this ten-day meditation, and I had no choice but to hold my nose and admit it.

One or two days ago, the ten-day meditation class hadn't started yet, but people came one after another, and finally reached as many as 20 people. Some of these people have participated many times, and some of them are here for the first time.

The people who came for the first time were obviously more lively, and they found everything new. After communicating with them, I found that they were basically adults in the society, and the only purpose of their participation was to be reborn.

Of course, this rebirth is not the rebirth in the novel, but a kind of ideological transformation. They are of different ages, but everyone has their own troubles, whether it is family or work, and the troubles cannot be controlled by themselves, so come to participate in this ten-day meditation , I want to use this to change my state of mind. After participating, many people feel as if they have been reborn, so they call the ten-day meditation a rebirth.

After all the people are ready, the class will start the next day. There are monks who come to collect our personal belongings, wallets, mobile phones and so on. Kuye Temple has prepared everything for everyone, even razors.

The monks also told us that we cannot leave the Dry Leaves Temple during the ten-day meditation. Leaving means giving up. The gate will not be locked, and entry and exit are free.

In the evening, we ate a final formal dinner, and then waited until six o'clock to start the first meditation, which is the time of their evening class.

Meditation pays attention to precepts, samadhi, and wisdom, so from now on, we must abide by the precepts, and new students have lower requirements, as long as the five precepts are, respectively, no killing, no stealing, no sexual misconduct, no lying, and no drinking, while those before Old students who have participated in the ten-day meditation also added three points, do not eat after noon, do not sleep in a comfortable bed, do not wear accessories, and are completely in the mode of penance.

I feel sorry for the freshman who participated in the ten-day meditation for the first time, but under the instruction of Liu Laodao, I have to abide by the rules of the old students.

On the second day, the ten-day meditation class officially started, and at the same time, it also talked about many rules, such as the ban on speaking, that is, you are not allowed to speak, and you cannot speak except for chanting sutras. Unbearable things, not having a mobile phone has made them very uncomfortable, and they can't talk, it's like killing them.

Fortunately, the old students will give advice to the new students and let them find some things to do to divert their attention, so you will find many interesting things in the ten-day meditation class, such as walking around the temple and grabbing a handful of sand Count the sand to play, or observe the bird nests on the trees in the temple.

And I found a nest of ants and counted them to play. Of course, I can’t kill, I can only make a joke, but there are still some people who can’t persist in this level. One person didn’t persist for a long time. , resigned.

In the first three and a half days, we mainly practice meditation, that is, sit in meditation, and then observe our breathing, feel the feeling of air entering the nostrils, and the time is twelve hours, and we can rest for a while every hour.

This process is extremely difficult for freshmen. Most of them can't last an hour of meditation for the first time, and they will have back pain and pinch their feet desperately.

Naturally, I’m pretty good. Liu Laodao has always taught me to meditate, and I have practiced for a long time, but I have never done it for such a long time at one time, so I passed it after a little patience. I have participated in it many times. The old students also spend it easily.

As for those new students, one person told me afterwards that the first night was the most sound sleep he had in the past five or six years, and his years of insomnia symptoms felt cured.

We got up very early, woken up by the bell at four o'clock, and then took half an hour to wash up, and then went to the meditation room to meditate for two hours, then went to the cafeteria to have a fast meal, then rested and meditated until eleven o'clock, and had dinner , continue to meditate at one o'clock in the afternoon until five o'clock.

New students can eat fruit and lemonade after five o’clock, but the old students are miserable, only lemonade can be drunk, it’s the first time I feel that the fruit is so sweet, I’m going crazy, no one controls me, I really want to go I grabbed a handful of fruit and ate it, but I stopped abruptly for no reason other than not wanting Mr. Liu to look down on me.

Continue to meditate for an hour at night, and then there will be a monk master to summarize for us, and it will end at nine o'clock.

At the end of the first day, everyone was exhausted, including me, and even some freshmen secretly wanted to cry. They are all gritting their teeth and holding on, transformation is not so easy.

I have to say that people are very adaptable. By the second day, most people didn’t feel as painful as the first day. By the third day and the fourth day, basically everyone got used to it. Those who didn’t ,left already.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, we started to enter wisdom, that is to say, we entered the method of internal inspection from the method of observing breath. The method of internal inspection is not difficult, that is, to examine ourselves while meditating, to observe our whole body, from the beginning to the end, until you can observe All the subtle changes in myself.

However, the internal inspection method is also the most dangerous time, because you observe every subtle change in your body, and at the same time magnify your pain many times. Everyone’s past emotions will be recalled in your mind over and over again, and Most of these emotions are negative emotions.

Hatred, anger, pain, hatred, these negative emotions come in bursts, like a tide, making you repeat the scene at any time, many people will collapse at this time, some will yell angrily, and some will You will walk around violently, and those monks and masters will not care about you. Some people will come back after going out and continue to meditate, and some will give up completely.

On the first day of entering Huihui, five people left, and even I almost collapsed, because my negative emotions were no less than any other. I remembered the great flood that year and watched my whole family disappear in the flood.

I thought of the precarious scene after the flood, the scene of my stomach growling with hunger, like hell, and I even thought of the despair I felt when I was caught by Mr. Li and buried alive in the coffin by Boss Chen.

I have endured all these emotions, but every time I recall them, I will become extremely irritable. I wish I could kill Sanye Li and Boss Chen again. I feel that my whole body is silent in hatred.

As a last resort, I can only recite Taoist scriptures silently, such as the mantra of purifying the heart and the mantra of calming the mind over and over again, so that there is no complete collapse.

Until the eighth day, this anger suddenly disappeared, as if it had gone with the wind, not only me, everyone was the same, as if they had gained a new life, I finally understood why they put this ten-day Zen becomes reborn, really like rebirth.

This suddenly enlightened state makes people feel happy, and everyone wants to share it, but unfortunately there are still precepts to abide by, so everyone can only look at others with shining eyes.

On the tenth day, the ban was lifted, and even the mobile phones were returned to us. Many people were very excited to take pictures with their mobile phones, or call their relatives and friends. After all, it was almost ten days since they lost contact. Report safe.

No. On the 11th day, many people spontaneously started donating money and stuffing money into the merit box. Although this ten-day meditation is free of charge, after all we eat and drink from others, and the benefits of this ten-day meditation are shared by everyone. If you feel it, no one who wants face will be stingy.

However, how much money to donate is entirely voluntary. If the economy is good, give more, and if the economy is poor, no one will criticize you even if you give ten yuan.

In the afternoon, the members who persisted until the end held an exchange meeting to tell each other how they felt. The most benefit among these people was that their tempers improved.

Many people said that before coming here, they were short-tempered, irritable, pessimistic, etc., but after the practice, their mood was very calm, and they also had a lot of new understandings when dealing with some previous troubles. All in all, they have gained a lot.

After the exchange, the members began to leave, and I returned to Liu Laodao.

"That's right, judging by your mental outlook, this ten-day meditation should be very fruitful, how about it, are you very grateful for being a teacher, and giving you a new life?"

Liu Laodao looked at me and said with a smile, it is difficult to hide a person's mental outlook, it will be reflected on his face.

"The harvest is great, but I really want to eat a meal of meat now. I think I can eat three catties by myself"

I rolled my eyes, it's up to you to say whether the harvest is big or not?It's just that I'm craving meat right now.

When Liu Laodao heard it, his whole face turned black immediately, like the bottom of a pot.