Modern Cultivation Record

Zhuangzi Xinzhai Listening to Breathing Method (Into Quietness)

Original text: "Yan Hui said: Dare to ask Xinzhai? Zhongni Ri: If you have a mind; if you don't hear, use the ear, but listen to the heart; if you don't hear, use the heart, but listen to the air; listen only to the ear, and the heart ends Fu. The qi is also the one who is empty but the one who waits for the thing. Only the Tao gathers the empty, and the empty is the heart." A brief explanation: Yan Hui is a student of Confucius, and Zhong Ni is the nickname of Confucius.

　　 Yan asked back what does the word "Xin Zhai" mean?

Confucius said, "You should concentrate your thoughts in one place, and don't think about it; when your thoughts are unified, use the word'listening', but not listening with ears, but listening with your heart; this is still a superficial way of thinking, just deep At the first level, you don’t listen with your heart, but with your breath. When you reach this state, the effect of hearing has already ceased. God and breath become one, and the mind no longer works.

The essence of 　　 Qi is imaginary. It has to wait for something to gather with it. Only the ‘Tao’ is often combined with the Qi of Taixu. If the heart is the same as that of Taixu, it is considered a heart fast. "The above is how Confucius Gaoyan asked about Shinsai's time.

　　This kind of work is done in a series of stages. The middle stage does not matter, but for the sake of easy entry for scholars, you may wish to divide the whole process into several steps, and then explain in detail: the first step is "If one will". The word "Ruo" is used as the word "you". "Aspiration" means thought, or thought. When you first do the work, you must be focused in your mind, and don't have many distracting thoughts disturbing it. If the distracting thoughts are not cleaned up, it will be difficult to do well.

　　 The second step is "If you don't listen to ears, listen to your heart."

　　 "No" is equal to "Wu", and it can also be interpreted as "do"; "Zhi" is a pronoun, referring to the listener; "Yi" is used as the interpretation of "用". When the thoughts are back together, they start to work, using the word "listen". Generally speaking, listening is to listen to various sounds with two ears; the so-called listening here is by no means listening to sounds. People are about to have questions: if they say it is listening, there must be someone to listen to. If you don't listen to the sound, what should you listen to? There is no clear answer to this question in various comments. Today I specifically pointed out that the first step is to listen to the breath in the nose. Anyone who has a normal respiratory system without obstructions has no sound in the nose, so they say "Don’t listen with ears." Although there is no sound, they can know whether the breath in the nose comes in and out, whether it is fast or slow. Whether it is thick or thin, even a deaf person will feel this way, so I say "listen to your heart."

　　 The third step "If you don't listen to it with your heart but listen to it with breath"

　　 Here is another problem; the mind is conscious, and it can be said to be a word "listening"; qi is not conscious, how can you use it to listen? The object that the mind listens to is qi, and what is the object that qi listens to? If you use your breath to listen to your breath, this sentence doesn't make sense in the theory. How to explain it? The answer is: Listening to the breath takes a long time, the heart and the breath have become one and they are inseparable, and the breath can no longer be the object of the mind. You can no longer talk about using this mind or listening to that breath, so you say "No listening without heart." At this time, although the spirit and energy in the body are united, they have not yet reached the realm of chaos, and they are still a little conscious. If you continue to do it, it does not take a lot of time, and naturally you are completely unconscious. In the temporary process from conscious to unconscious, it is better to listen to the qi with the heart, so that the gap between the heart and the qi is removed, so it is said that gas". Although the word "listen" is still used here, in fact it means to stop paying attention to "listen". The idioms so-called "listen to nature", "listen to nothing more", "listen to him", these words "listen" are the best here. explanation of.

　　 The fourth step "Listen to the ears and stop to the symbols".

At the beginning, pay attention to the word "Yi"; when the thought is back to one, focus on the word "Listen"; if you hold on to a word "Listen" for a long time and refuse to relax, it is too persistent. The word "stop" is used. The so-called "listening to the ear" is to teach people not to pay attention to listening. At this time, kung fu has gradually entered the realm of chaos, the body is in harmony with spirit and spirit, and the perception of the heart has no effect, so it is said that "the heart stops at the talisman" (Fu is the meaning of conformity). This state of unity of spirit and spirit is ignorant, and looks the same as sleeping on the outside, but the internal situation is different.

　　 The fifth step "the one who is energized, the one who is empty and waiting for the thing, only the Tao gathers the empty, and the one who is empty is the heart."

　　 From the shallow to the deep realm, it passed step by step, and finally reached the "virtual" realm. This "vacuum" is naturally obtained from ignorance and unawareness, and is not created by consciousness. If you are working hard, you often want to be virtual, but you can't be virtual. All the work was originally returned from the day after tomorrow to the innate, so the fifth step of work should be experienced in the innate realm. If you ask how to call it Xiantian, this matter has gone beyond the scope of the convalescence method, so there is no need to discuss it in detail here. Ordinarily use meditation to cure the disease; as long as the body is in the state of the unity of spirit and energy (that is, the heart stops at the talisman), it is enough.

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