. Wu Nien-not-thinking
Contemporary era shows people attracted by meditation, but often follows unauthorized methods presented by self-styled masters who insist on the practice of the method silently, without making further progress their pupils. They have meditation as a way to make empty the mind, but, in any traditional Eastern meditation has a meaning so bad. The idea of spiritual nihilist interpretation is superimposed to the original principles of dhyana.
The Sixth Patriarch Hui-neng said:
"Focusing on the mind and contemplate it is morbid: it is dhyana. What does the word "meditation" zuo-chan? In this school means no barriers, no barriers. The attitude of meditation transcends all material, good or bad. "The term "sitting" (tso), means not to stir thoughts in mind, as opposed to the false dhyana than just "empty mind". Hui-neng compares the Great Void inner outer space, which contains all the stars, so the true dhyana is to understand their spiritual nature is similar to outer space, and that thoughts and feelings will pass like birds in the sky, without a trace. The concept of Hui-neng was a man with a conscience is not empty is better of "A stump or a rock."
Another Shaolin Patriarch said:
"If you believe that to meditate means to undo the power of thinking, then all non-sentient things, like stones, they would become enlightened. If you believe instead of thinking you get the light, then all sentient beings have already released. "It is clear from this statement that meditation transcends the thinking (mundane) and the non-thought, the two sides of the coin of material life. You can make correct use of the mind just knowing it in depth. Psychic structure has different levels of functional capabilities: distraction, confusion, occasional stability, concentration and full control of the interference waves. When the spiritual being identified with the interference waves, which plague the mind field, take their very nature. Consequently it is as unsound and no longer perceives himself for what he really is, but for something else. These ephemeral identity disconnected from reality and ontological designed to dissolve over time, arouse desire and need for artificial paradoxically omitting instances of real depth. Through spiritual practice and constant emotional detachment from the phenomenal, we must learn to master the mental field instead of being subjecting its aspects unstable. With meditation you can completely dominate the mental processes, to mitigate the interference waves, this does not imply the suppression of the mind, but the purification of all those psychic contents, misguided and misleading, that obscure the view of the absolute. If the practitioner is able to fit in the time interval between waves and the other psychic, can once again become aware of its original position.
The highest level of meditation is samadhi, at this stage the psychic waves are stilled and spiritualist in a state of mind inspired and pure, directly perceives the Reality, and recalls its ontological characteristics: immortality, awareness and bliss. The practice of "no-thought" (wu-nien), it is thus to deny the incessant flow of thoughts materials, but to absorb the mind in spiritual Reality that transcends them. This samadhi prajna, in Actually, it is only an initial stage of meditation, which must follow the spiritual process itself.
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