The Buddha told you that the first thing to know is the qi of life, and the great principle is divided into three kinds: "long nourishing qi, repaying the body qi, and fundamental qi."
<h1>The first type of long nourishing gas</h1>
Long yang qi is the translation of Chinese, that is, to make people live and grow, just like the fertilizer of plants, the diet of animals, to maintain you, so that your body has a new metabolism of life. The four words "metabolism" are Anapana; dead cells are discharged from the pores, and new cells grow, which is actually Anapana; this belongs to long yang qi, and our breathing and inhaling belongs to long yang qi.
Regarding long-term nourishment qi, this is a big science, and long-term nourishment is divided into four layers: wind, breathing, breathing, and breathing.
First talk about "wind", wind is the basic principle, China talks about wind is the qi of the air flow, which becomes breath in the human body. Man's breath comes first, so the wind comes first. Generally breathing is called "asthma", panting and panting, and there is a disease with a bad respiratory tract called asthma. The average person is not healthy, and also has mild asthma, breathing only to the throat, or to the surface of the lungs. Breathing has a sound, especially when sleeping, when the cold and nasal congestion, the straight sound is thicker, which belongs to the breathing. Wheezing is the external wind and the wind inside the body, contradicting each other, fighting each other, in order to open the pipe of qi.
This is the stage of long nourishment, and wheezing belongs to the role of the wind. Long-term nourishment is the function of life, which is connected with the earth's atmosphere. So, if it's very high, outside the atmosphere, this gas changes, that's a vacuum, so astronauts have to be trained. If you don't bring oxygen into space, beyond the outside of the atmosphere, only those who have attained the Four Meditations may not matter, maybe! Because there is no need for long nourishment.
The third step of long nourishment is "qi", the stage of qi is not breathing, for example, people who are practicing meditation, sit quietly and sit well, as if they feel that the nose is not breathing, or very slow and very slight, this belongs to the qi, so the qi mentioned in practice is not ordinary air. Ancient China is this "炁", "none" under the word four points, no fire is called 炁, it seems to have no effect, but there is still contact, a long time is very slow, occasionally there is a role of exchange, it seems that there is no feeling; there is no wind, no breathing, that is called qi.
A further step is the "breath", which is a very subtle in-and-out exchange, there is no qi, there are no obstacles inside the body, there is no feeling of scabies, swelling and itching, etc., there is no feeling at all, it is completely quiet, as if there is no breath at all, but the breath is all over the body. Then I felt that each cell and even the nine tricks - the seven tips on the head, plus the two tricks of defecation, every cell in the whole body, naturally is full of traffic, as if it is connected with the atmosphere and the void, that is the realm of breath.
When do we ordinary people know how to breathe? On the pillow, wanting to sleep but not sleeping, heard his own breathing. At this time, the more you hear your own breathing, the more you can't sleep, insomnia people hear breathing most clearly, usually can't hear clearly, and the breathing of pores is not to be talked about.
Speaking of stopping, there are obvious examples where when you look at something very attentively, the breathing is slight and it stops because the attention is concentrated. Also, when you are scared, or when you encounter something very happy, at that moment, the breathing will stop. Why stop? The kingdom has single-mindedly focused on you, and this is the truth of cessation. So, when one's spiritual thoughts are focused on a certain point, the breath is combined with the thought, which is called the single-minded spirit. When a scientist is thinking about a problem, or when a follower is writing an article, when he is concentrating, his breathing almost stops.
If you understand this principle, then when you practice, completely empty your mind, and then the breath slowly fills up, and it naturally stops on its own. This is called cessation.