In the process of Zazen meditation, you need to step through the stages of "weariness", "enjoyment", and "emptiness of the body". The first stage is the most difficult for the beginners. This time, you should regard your agitated mind as an object, trying all kinds of methods to cope with it. For example, you can contemplate the pain of your leg if your leg pains, contemplate irritability if you are irritable. In all these trainings, you are practicing meditation. The moment when you feel very annoyed or agitated is usually the time when you could build up the power of concentration, because at this time you are definitely not feeling drowsy, so you could easily concentrate on this annoyance and agitation. Zazen meditation is nothing but a state of high concentration. Therefore, don’t be afraid of annoyance or agitation. You are practicing meditation while you are fighting against these emotions. Do not make any complaints and consider these emotions as enemies. Remember that you are practicing meditation when you feel agitated and fight against agitation. Don’t worry about too many thoughts. The key is that you have already noticed these thoughts. This kind of keen awareness is the most important. "Late awareness is more serious than the rise of thoughts." It is important that you regard these disturbing thoughts as the object, and keep contemplating them.

Many Buddhists today seem to be practicing Buddhism, but they are not really learning from Buddha. Here are several cases of Buddhists who are not truly practicing Buddhism. 1.Enjoy visiting Bodhimaṇḍas (a term used in Buddhism meaning the "place of awakening”). Some Buddhists enjoy visiting Bodhimandas very much. It is originally a good thing that we could visit virtuous people and learn from them. But these Buddhists are departing from this purpose. They often boast about how many famous temples they have visited and how many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas they have worshipped. They even regard these activities as great achievement they have attained in Buddhism, making no effort to improve their mindset. Master Huilv and other respected monks have spoken about this matter many times. Hopefully, these Buddhists go to Bodhimanda for answers to their questions, not for the purpose of travel, nor taking this as the practice of Buddhism or as something to show off to the new believers. 2. Keen on making friends with other Buddhists. We love making friends in this world and consider it as a means of making a living and obtaining pleasure. Many Buddhists still have this habit and seem to believe that more friends bring them better achievement in the practice of Buddhism. In fact, what these Buddhists talk about are mostly worldly troubles, nothing to do with the practice of Buddhism. They only take it as an opportunity to make more friends, hoping these friends could offer them a hand when they are in trouble. Ancient eminent monks told us that we…

Cool Moon Teacher: body relaxation, and body quiet, this process is a level of one level. What does it mean to be able to experience its development in this empirical process? This shows that this relaxation and quiet is a process of concentration, not the general hypnotic relaxation, hypnotic relaxation is not up to this level. That is to say, we are in the process of relaxation, although also in the process of relaxation, this relaxation and the general relaxation is not the same, the general person's relaxation is characterized by its experience of quiet, this relaxation, is a quiet result, for example, we all sleep, sleep when you do not first suggest that you relax, but you suggest that you sleep, you are immediately close to sleep, "close to sleep" After forming such a hint, it gets a result of silence, and a result is relaxation. So we must understand, relax and quiet, in these two aspects, we can not grasp a little bit, a little bit wrong, you will fall into the general silence, and then from the general quiet fall into the drowsiness. That is to say, in the process of relaxation, why do you sometimes, involuntarily fall into the drowsiness, you always feel that this sinking law control, what causes it? That's because your relaxation is the same as your average sleep relaxation, and your relaxation hasn't gotten rid of the general person's sense of relaxation. Once you're seated, as soon as you're in the chair, you're trying to relax by experiencing it, not really relaxing.…