Advantages of Meditation

　　打坐種種的好處

　　The posture in which you meditate is very important. In Japanese monasteries, they have very good meditation postures. This is something we lacked. As I am not too particular about appearances, everyone did not pay particular attention to this. It is best to sit in full lotus posture during meditation. This can subdue the demons and followers of external paths. When the demons see you as a sincere cultivator, they will be behave. The followers of external paths cannot accomplish this, and they will be scared. On one hand, it is easy to enter samadhi. On the other, your legs really hurt.

　　打坐的姿勢是很要緊的，日本佛堂他們坐的樣子都很好，我們的就差一些，因爲我不注重外表，大家也就馬馬虎虎的。打坐的時候最好能結雙跏趺坐，這能降伏天魔恐怖外道，天魔一見到你這樣，都老實了；外道他們不能這樣坐，他們也都會怕的；又很容易入定成就叁昧，又很容易腿痛叫你受不了，有這種種的好處。

　　When sitting in meditation, your eyes should contemplate the nose, the nose contemplates the mouth, and the mouth contemplates the mind. There are no eyes on the nose and mouth! Well, if you succeed, you will have eyes all over your body and every pore will have countless eyes. When you see things, you need not use this pair of flesh eyes. Your whole body will become like a radar. If you succeed in cultivation, in the future you will experience such phenomena. For now, you have just begun to apply effort; you have not even taken a single step yet, but have just made a start.

　　坐的時候要眼觀鼻，鼻觀口，口觀心。「眼觀鼻，我知道；鼻觀口，鼻上有眼睛嗎？口觀心，口上還有眼睛嗎？」你要修成功，全身都有眼睛，每一個毛孔裏都有無量無邊那麼多的眼睛，你看東西不一定要用這一對肉眼來看；也可以說是你全身都是雷達，都是機關，只要你肯用功修行，將來就有這種的妙用。現在這是用功的一個開始，談不到第一步，只是一個開始。