People who know a little about Taoist health or kung fu understand the great significance of the Dan Dao technique and the double cultivation of life. Spend your mind and time pondering its essential righteous mind method and pondering the meaning of the Tao. However, whether it is cultivation or Neidan, the most important and fundamental thing is to cultivate the mind. We often see a group of people practicing kung fu, during which we can see that those who have been practicing for a long time are often quiet and quiet, and their concentration is like a stone.
Beginners often prefer to embroider their legs and are moved by the visual performance of the body. Because it does not understand the deep mysteries of the mind and body. People who have been practicing for a long time often pursue a state of purity of mind and great harmony. However, to achieve this state, it is actually easy, there are clouds in the book: "Recognize the truth of this qi, harvest this qi reality, only need a hundred days to build a foundation, October can be born, three years can be detached." "What is difficult is the refinement of man's heart. Throughout the ages, those who have been cultivating for twenty or thirty years and have not yet entered the Tao, because their hearts have not been cleaned, even if they have the secret of the Xuanguan, they cannot attain the Tao. Therefore, refining the mind is the most important work for the first step.
When it comes to practicing meditation, everyone thinks that they must be sitting in a quiet place, not hearing about the world, and they should always be quiet. In the past, Qiu Zu said: "I learn the Tao in the middle of nowhere, which is a hundred times better than in the quiet place." ”
Zi Si Zi said, "He who is also the Tao, must not depart from the tao." Detachable, non-Taoist also. "However, this is subtle, and it is beyond the reach of the word. In short, those who learn the Tao will not depart from this Way in the four rites of practice, sitting, and reclining. As my master Tianhua showed, the divine wonder is the most wonderful: sex is a loving thing, and fate is the vitality of the body; but this is the thought of peace and smoothness, the lively and vigorous atmosphere, often playful, not allowed to breathe away, not to mix a thought, that is, the ancients Cloud "walking and sitting, not leaving this", this is the name, this is The Taiji.
So it is said that it is the ability in life that cannot be left to generate thoughts, and everything that life can leave cannot be called the Tao. (The uninterrupted thinking and mental activity of each person is the embodiment of the Tao in human life.) What gives rise to thoughts and minds is the Tao, the Mandate of Heaven, and the Source of Life. ）
Therefore, those who practice according to the Tao should maintain a cautious wariness and a respectful attitude of fear towards what they cannot hear and witness. Although people's eyes and ears have their own limitations, people who practice according to the Tao can still perceive things that ordinary people cannot perceive in the most secret places and the most subtle places, so practitioners should be careful to maintain their unique knowledge (obtained in practice). Everyone born in this universe has a completely independent mind to absorb and digest the various information he perceives, and to make conscious and appropriate responses, which is why man will control all things and coexist with the heavens.
Practicing this path to cultivate the mind is nothing but the path. Yubi adds a pranayama kung fu, which is the study of life. But pranayama is not a simple breath of concentration, it needs to be practiced slowly, starting with breath, long time breathing, and then long breathing nothing, the beginning is the truth of numerology. That is, "Sit upright, not moving to shake, listening to its nature, not forced, this is the method of pranayama."
In addition, looking for another method of pranayama is not to avoid drawing snakes. Therefore, it is said: "Fu Qi is not convinced, obedience is not eternal life, and eternal life must be ambushed." "This volt word must be recognized clearly, and it is not in vain to hold your breath and count your breaths. There is no discrepancy in the mind, and there is no discrepancy in the breath, and it is the study of life and cultivation.
In short, to refine the mind, both must be cultivated at the same time. Just by refining the mind, the body and life will be difficult to guarantee; just the breath, even if the longevity is a fool. "I don't know the good and the evil of emptiness, I sit still, I hold my body and mind, like a stone pressing grass, thinking that cultivating the mind is a great confusion." Therefore, life must be based on both, and it is always possible to do so.