Retreat, in Buddhist terms, is to close the six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind) and the six dusts (color, sound, fragrance, touch), which is called retreat.
"Book of Changes" said: "The former king even retreated to this day."
"Zhi" Everyone will immediately think of the summer solstice and the winter solstice, but the two solstice refers to the time in a year when the earth breathes in and absorbs radiation energy in the universe. But the real "Zhi" in Chinese culture refers to the time when a yang comes back or a yin is born (the sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes are the Fu hexagram and the Ao hexagram; the lunar calendar Zi month (November), Wu month ( May); the twelfth hour is the hour of Zi (noon)). If a person can follow the laws of the universe and practice meditation at this time, one hour or two hours will be equivalent to one regular season (three months) of sitting. .
Yin and Yang between heaven and earth have a beginning and an end every day, one smooth and one reverse, Zi is the beginning of Yang, Mao is the end of Yang; Noon is the beginning of Yin, and You is the end of Yin. If a person can be pure of heart, abstain from desires, fast and bathe, and have nothing in mind every day at the Zi hour when Yang comes and returns, the Wu hour when Yin is born, and the Maoyou hour when Yin and Yang are balanced, especially at "Zi Wu", this is the best time. Good meditation practice. Because this beginning and end, the order and reversal of yin and yang are indeed infinitely wonderful, the laws of the universe are hidden in it, and the spirit of heaven and earth is hidden in it. Patriarch Bodhidharma once faced the wall for three years. His body and mind were in the interaction of the spirit of the universe , that is, in the realm of unity between man and nature, which is why many stories about Zen Buddhism today.
