HOW IS SITTING.

 When sitting, need  to notice  your spine curve  natural  backbone of a  healthy , as seen in medical books. It is important to sit for the case study. What happens in your leg is not important; what happens where the spine is extremely important. If true, the backbone not stubborn,  pain  and  hallucinations  may be born. Your weight on the lower back muscles to bring easy if correct posture.

They never sit  entirely  on the meditation cushion or chair. When sitting on the floor, only the last section on the bottom of the spine really meditation cushion to let up a little bit from the hips, just sitting on the edge of the knee, and the knee for  comfort on the floor. This position push hard on the thighs prevents blood makes difficult  the circulation . If you sit down on the meditation pillow, do not let the thigh with a gap, will not be able to leave without quite sore knee after. Beginning to  feel comfortable nature  and the weight fall on the shoulders, ears aligned with your shoulders and nose aligned with the navel. No two people like each other in terms of molding  the body , so it is very important to  carefully  test for yourself to be  sure  that you have  found the right spot of your head and your legs. If the ears  are not really  straight with your shoulders as such have an  injury  that kind of a back, you also do not  feel  that you can not  meditate . Please  find the  position  comfortable  one, where you  solid one, and began  to meditate  in that position. It shook itself from left to right, starting from broad to narrow gradually, can swing arc if desired. What kind of  movement makes a person  find the best posture to rest as an  individual .

Two hands to inside with the fingertips lightly touch each other. Lefties put your right hand on his left hand, and right-handed people, the left hand on the right hand, for  the reasons  below: a half body always  works  the other more, so while  meditating people Table torso hands at  work  in the hands of half the body  works  much as it helps to make  a balanced  activity  of the body.

Eyes never closed  completely . Looking down  on the floor at one point how to  comfort . No two people at the same distance at each point, so it is often said that it is best to rest his eyes on the floor at the distance  moved chain  meter. We  keep the  rule  but must  conform  the  nature  of  us . Heritage  and the right  natural  of all  of us  is to know  Self  of  us , that is peace and be one with the  Eternal . To  accomplish  this,  we  must not do what is not  natural  for  us , just because of the teachings of  meditation  has been written for a  body  perfectly .

With eyes to do the same things as they do with their mind. Must not  try to  look at something  special , such as the picture on the wall or the floor, do not  try to make them into  ambiguous , not  clear . Sometimes people just kept  looking down  and together in one location. People keep eyes open to possible  awareness . People do not  try to find  and  not  trying  not see.

Important is breathing through the nose and not through the mouth. This is easily done by  shut  again only.

When breathing, do not do anything not  natural . There are many  forms  called  meditation  vary, they all bring the level  peace  spiritual  differences. But no  form of meditation  which brings  peace  spirituality  and insight greater  awareness  more deeply with  the meditation  of  contemplative  calm as I mentioned; however,  the  benefits  of this  complete only  if people breathe a  natural . Synchronized  breathing with  state  nature of the body is important. If  breathing  crude, mean stress, strenuous, not  normal  due  to the  much into it, there is no harmony of body and mind. Some of  us  breathing faster than others, others slower. Each person must breathe in rhythm  to normal ,  natural  of it, so as not to cause  tension . Once  again, to  emphasize  on the  natural .

One should not intentionally  try  to think  as well  as not  deliberately  trying not  to think . These  thoughts  come and go in the beginning  we have  and  we  can either play with them or just sit there and  allow  them to go through. Too many of  us  allow ourselves to be the  ideological  rape, while some are deliberately  kicked  them; both are  completely  wrong . The Japanese  distinguish  between  ideological  deliberate and  ideological  nature . Because tai  us  not being covered while  meditating , driving through and listen to birds singing is something  normal . Since launch  we have  not closed, also for when  we  noticed  the mold on the carpet, on the floor or on the wall, the ones that only  harass  us  if  we  allow  her  to discuss  about them in  mind . If people only  recognize  a car passing by it no  matter  what. But along with the  recognition  that it is  frustrating  or  fun , then  meditation  has stopped. All are required to  meditate  as they sit with a state of mind  active , which means that if sitting like that, people will  find Buddha  True  in themselves.

I used to sit under an example to illustrate this demand. People sit under a bridge  traffic  in both directions. People do not climb up the order to ride a car, do not chase them; it does not  seek to  push the car off the bridge. It is not  possible not  to know where the cars; one must not be them  disturbed . If a person with the  thought  of it held it's important not to  trouble  about that. People only  accept  events  being held and his  continuing  to sit, do not be anxious or  feeling  guilty. No matter what they do, they can not change the  facts  as they were held and if anxious about it, but others did not  peace to  return to  meditation . One need not wonder,  feeling  guilty, nothing by destroying the  guilt  of sin  in this.

When  meditation  is complete, it shook itself from the other side through or in a circular motion, like the place to start, except made from small ones to shake the wider movement.

Do not wear anything tight, constriction is important. It is important not to wear too hot or too cold. University Professor  Dao Nguyen , when it comes to the  outrageous , too warm, even too much,  eat too much , not enough warm, wearing not enough, not eating enough, has  commented : "The six parts of the stomach  support  for a man, the other two parts to help  doctors  of medicine ". University Professor  Dao Nguyen has  warned  critical of what he called the three of lack: lack of sleep, malnutrition, and lack of warmth. Unless  this is true of the three, not too much or too little,  if not harmonize  body and mind  can not.

Question:  If a person is more about  meditation  that can not  continue to  hold his position, why?

Should  convert  and do not  worry  about it. Sitting meditation  is not a  test  of  endurance . If you  feel  unable to hold the pose, there's nothing wrong with changing it. If necessary  switch , please keep in mind the backbone to  back  straight. Also important is the need to  train  themselves to a certain extent. I always advocate if a person  feels can sit for ten minutes, you should  push  yourself sitting twelve minutes, and when sitting up twelve minutes should sit to fourteen minutes. He should  continue  that way  until  being able  to maintain  the same posture for forty-five minutes without discomfort. By doing so,  the body  is  trained  a slowly and  naturally  to  recognize  it also has its rights. Without  doing so, sitting can  become something causing  fear ; I do not  know  nothing worse than this.

Question:  What about anxiety?

If a person wants to  progress  in  meditation , learn  to sit still  is something very important. Restlessness, if the body is still  relaxed , is a sign of people do not like self-discipline and is a  self does not  have to  be subdued . The argument of those opposing the center of  us  did not  clear  as  we  thought, and the anxiety is sometimes a  reaction  to not want to do something for yourself. If a person feel miserable than being  compelled  to agitation, he should be a little deep breathing and again three straight.

If  we  are low, high, thin, fat, have the same vision or the same health, teaching  meditation  is very easy. But every person is different, so I can not write a chapter on how to sit the same for  everyone . Important is that he was a teacher  competence where testing is the best posture for him. Many people try to keep every word of  The  rules  meditate  without knowing that  the purpose  of the text is to help them learn  to meditate  and not do them  much pain  and discomfort. END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH GIAC TAM.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.27/2/2017.