Advantages of Meditation

打坐种种的好处

The posture in which you meditate is very important. In Japanese monasteries, they have very good meditation postures. This is something we lacked. As I am not too particular about appearances, everyone did not pay particular attention to this. It is best to sit in full lotus posture during meditation. This can subdue the demons and followers of external paths. When the demons see you as a sincere cultivator, they will be behave. The followers of external paths cannot accomplish this, and they will be scared. On one hand, it is easy to enter samadhi. On the other, your legs really hurt.

打坐的姿势是很要紧的，日本佛堂他们坐的样子都很好，我们的就差一些，因为我不注重外表，大家也就马马虎虎的。打坐的时候最好能结双跏趺坐，这能降伏天魔恐怖外道，天魔一见到你这样，都老实了；外道他们不能这样坐，他们也都会怕的；又很容易入定成就三昧，又很容易腿痛叫你受不了，有这种种的好处。

When sitting in meditation, your eyes should contemplate the nose, the nose contemplates the mouth, and the mouth contemplates the mind. There are no eyes on the nose and mouth! Well, if you succeed, you will have eyes all over your body and every pore will have countless eyes. When you see things, you need not use this pair of flesh eyes. Your whole body will become like a radar. If you succeed in cultivation, in the future you will experience such phenomena. For now, you have just begun to apply effort; you have not even taken a single step yet, but have just made a start.

坐的时候要眼观鼻，鼻观口，口观心。「眼观鼻，我知道；鼻观口，鼻上有眼睛吗？口观心，口上还有眼睛吗？」你要修成功，全身都有眼睛，每一个毛孔里都有无量无边那么多的眼睛，你看东西不一定要用这一对肉眼来看；也可以说是你全身都是雷达，都是机关，只要你肯用功修行，将来就有这种的妙用。现在这是用功的一个开始，谈不到第一步，只是一个开始。