Mindfulness Meditation & Zen Meditation

 学习四念处止观法门与禅宗法门有感

Leong Seng Chen

自从接触禅修 (Meditation)，末学只很浅薄接触到或过这两个基本禅修法门而已。就是南传缅甸式腹部上下止观呼吸性的内观禅，和充满中文文化的禅宗参禅法门，也就是叫着看话参禅，或也可以叫看话禅或参话头，但是正式就叫着看话参禅。

当初接触四念处内观禅，只是纯碎为了清静身心而已，所以当时当地当环境因缘下，大概是三十多岁，只知道要打坐或静坐而已，来调整平横身心著力点 (relaxation)。其实最初接触的静坐就是 Transcendental Meditation)。但是必须要不断念着一个指定的印度咒语，觉得很难适应或明白道理。所以不久就放弃了。

那时侯接触四念处内观禅，一方面也是出于好奇和兴趣，同时经过一般佛教团体的因缘下而切入罢了，当时也是我的人生情绪最低落的时候了。自个儿成家立业以来，家人都信仰三合一的所谓儒、道、佛的宗教观念。自已父母从大陆海南省中原小镇是湃天地和祖先为主。

当时当地当环境之下，只会单纯盲目/信心跟着禅师的教导方法接触观呼吸而已。呼吸没有了就观身体的接触点。然后再回头观腹部上下而已，这样重恢复的练习/锻炼。分秒时刻必须要有警觉心存在。就这样子开始了解/体会一点点心经讲述的皮毛东西。那时身心无常现象相当明显，因为这个当下身体既然会慢慢渐渐由下而上消失掉的现象出现在心眼前。 很可怕恐怖呢！有时候人好像不见掉了呢！身触受感后才觉知的慢慢渐渐恢复起来。接触没几年后一家五口因缘关系搬来新加坡定居下来了。因为没有因缘的共修力量，所以不知觉就这样慢下来了。这个方法以启发八正道的正念为主因，五根必须平衡。精进根和定根是一组，另外一组是智慧根和信根。 精进根和定根可以启发正念，正念可已增强智慧根，智慧根自然加强信或信心根了。

转眼来新加坡已经二十多年多了。五年前因缘下在唯一可以相信的新加坡道场光明山，接触充满中华文化禅宗法门，但是也因为开始有点字面上的误解（看话），误解怎么话是拿来看而非听的呢？因为自已刚好是听觉问题的关系。至于什么参禅那时还不懂得是什么呢！加上想弄明白一点中华文化的精华和教法，另者想弄清楚什么是北传佛教或佛法，而好奇下攀个善缘无所谓吧，听一听试一试看个如何情状罢了也没关系。听了几次禅师开示/讲述，还是无懂不明白，重点还是听不清楚罢了。 但是参加过第一次禅七，深深觉得更好奇呢！所以兴趣突然间启发开来了。短短几个月一连参加几个禅七。接着第二年接触到那个话头先行的妙用，很容易入定出定境，当下年尾决定往台湾百丈山一口气打三七呢！真想不到就这样子开始认识/肯定北传佛教或北传佛法的了。

后来从最基本认识的简单心经，慢慢加上一部金刚经，渐渐开始认识一点点其他皮毛的经典了，固然是普通白话的讲述或开示了。但是经典太多也难去读看，只能走马看花这里看看那里读读而已，尽量收集相应的资料作为参考作用。

同时也真好这个时候切进入夕阳黄昏时节，体力开始渐渐走下坡了，不如往年那么壮好，所以开始非得慢下来不可了。赶路也没办法了，只有随顺因缘了罢。

Study the Fourth Nensitivity and the Zen Law.

Leong Seng Chen

Since contact with Meditation, the last school has only been shallow to contact or pass through these two basic methods. That is, the Southern Burmese-style abdomen, which stops the respiratory interior of the abdomen, and the Zen Pamon, which is full of Chinese culture, that is, it can be called to read the words, or the words, or the words, but it is officially called Watching the words to visit.

At the beginning of contact with the Kwun Tong in the four ninth place, it was only purely fragmented to calm the body and mind, so at that time, the local environment was about years old, and I only knew that I had to sit or sit still, to adjust my body and mind to relaxation. I'm sorry. In fact, the initial sit-in contact was Transcendental Meditation. But one must keep reading a designated Indian mantra and find it difficult to adapt or understand the reason. So it wasn't long before giving up.

At that time, I was in the middle of the day, and I was in the middle of the day, and I was in the middle of the day, and I was in the middle of the day, and I was in the middle of the day, and I was in the middle of the day Since each family became a business, the family has believed in the so-called religious concepts of the three-in-one, the Tao, the Buddha. My own parents from the small town of Zhong Plain in Hainan Province, mainland, are dominated by the heaven and earth

At that time, the local environment was only blind / confident to follow the Zen Master's teaching method to contact the view of breathing. Watch the contact point of the body when the breath is gone. And then look back at the abdomen up and down, such as a restoring practice / exercise. You must be vigilant at every moment. This is how you start to understand / experience a little bit of the fur stuff that is told. At that time, the physical and mental impermanence was quite obvious, because the phenomenon of the present body would gradually disappear from the bottom to the top of the mind. It's scary! Sometimes people seem to be missing! The perception of the body after the feeling of touch is gradually recovered. A few years after the contact, a family of five moved to Singapore to settle down. Because there is no co-repair power of cause, the unconscious slows down like this. This method is the main cause of the positive thought that inspired the Eight Path, and the five must be balanced. The elaborate roots and ding roots are one group, and the other is the wisdom root and the signal root. The elaborate roots and the root can enlighten the positive thought, but the root of wisdom has strengthened the root of faith or confidence.

It's been more than two decades since I came to Singapore. Five years ago, under the only trusted Singapore Dojo Guangshan, contacted with the Zen of Chinese culture, but also because there started to be a bit of a literal misunderstanding (read words), how could the misunderstanding be taken to see rather than listen? ? Because it happens to be the relationship of hearing problems. As for what pilgrimage didn't know what it was at that time! Additionally, if you want to understand a little bit of the essence of Chinese culture and the law of the teachings, others want to figure out what is Buddhism or Dharma in the North, and it doesn't matter if you are curious about how good it is. It doesn't matter if you listen to it and see After listening to a few times the Zen Master's show / talk, still don't understand, the point is still not clear. However, I have attended the first time in the th time, and I am deeply curious! So the interest was suddenly inspired. Participating in a few short months in a row in a row. Then the next year, when I was exposed to the good use of the word, it was easy to set up a boundary, and at the end of the year, I decided to go to Baekjo Mountain, Taiwan for a breath of I can't believe that this is how I started to know / affirm Buddhism or Buddhism in the North.

Later, from the most basic knowledge of the simple heart of the heart, slowly add a diamond sutra, gradually began to know a little bit of other fur classics, of course it was a common white language narrative or open. However, too many classics are difficult to read, only to walk and see flowers here and read there, try to collect the corresponding data as a reference.

At the same time, it's really good to cut into the sunset and dusk, my physical strength started to go downhill gradually, not as strong as previous years, so I had to slow down. There is no way to hurry, only to follow the cause.

   

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