Which time of day is the best to meditate, and how many times a day is the best to meditate? Should I practice meditation every day?
First of all, when is the best time of day to meditate? The answer is that there is no so-called best time period, only the time period when you are in the best condition. It does not matter when you meditate, but whether your physical and mental state is good or not is the most important.
For example, if you feel uncomfortable physically, don’t meditate if you feel uncomfortable. If you feel depressed, unhappy or irritable, don’t meditate either. It also includes your diet. You can't meditate if you are too full, you can't meditate if you are too hungry, you can't meditate if you have too much energy during the day, and you can't meditate if you have no energy or are sick and depressed. So the best answer to when to meditate is to meditate when you are in the best physical and mental shape. Why am I not in a so-called good state throughout the day? Sorry, I suggest you not meditate on this day.
The second question is, how long is a good time to meditate a day? According to our standards, meditation is one hour. Because the time is too short, you can’t even breathe smoothly. You must first calm down your mind before you can learn to meditate and enter concentration. It’s like a pot of boiling water. There, you don’t have enough time. The pot of water cannot cool down, so we meditate for one hour each time.
The third question is whether you should meditate every day. This varies from person to person. For some very lazy people, I would ask them to meditate every day, even if it is only for 20 or 30 minutes, while they sit on a futon. If he is dozing off or feeling groggy, I will ask him to meditate every day. He needs a habit. As long as the habit lasts, he will always be able to do it over time.
For a classmate who is usually very diligent and courageous in his spiritual practice, I will not let him meditate every day. What is the highest mental method that I can teach him? If you have nothing to do, please come and take a seat. Your homework is already very full and your life is very hard. Why do you have to add more hardship to it? So you have to learn to let go, adjust your time, and make your body and mind happy. You don't need to meditate every day. It may be one day, three days, or even a week. Just meditating once is enough. Quality over quantity, there is no fixed method for meditation, it varies from person to person and from time to time.
Different people have different mindsets when learning to meditate. Even the same person has different learning methods at different stages of meditation. A good teacher will not use one textbook to teach everyone. In fact, the person who understands you best is not you, but someone who has experienced it, the teacher! Have you learned it?
