Thank you for the blessing of Senior Sister Guo, I learned that the Meditation Camp of the Ancient Temple of the Great Buddha was recruiting and it was a completely free event. Maybe I had hoped to participate in some courses similar to Vipassana before, but this time I tried to

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Guangzhou Dafo Temple

1. Register for

. I asked Senior Sister Guo for blessings. I only learned that the Great Buddha Ancient Temple Meditation Camp is being recruited a week before National Day, and it is a completely free event. Maybe I have been looking forward to participating in some courses like and before, but this time I tried to register.

once hesitated whether to register if he had a work arrangement on National Day and could not complete the seven days of repair. Fortunately, he did not give up this rare opportunity and could experience it in Big Buddha Temple , which is so close to home.

The applet to register is called non-thinking . I wondered about this meaning in my heart. The most familiar one is the sentence "If you don't think about it, you will never forget it." After checking, I realized that "non-thinking" is a Zen term. refers to transcending thinking and not thinking. is really a unique way of thinking.

According to the requirements of the event, I participated in the first joint practice on the evening of September 29. In fact, it was the basic assessment of the meditation camp. I was still a little nervous, I didn’t know the process, and I was not sure if I could persist.

Some people say: "It is neither thinking nor liberation" . So what’s interesting is that after I entered from the main entrance of the Great Buddha Temple, the meditation hall I wanted to go to was through liberation gate and then took the elevator to go up.

It seems that before entering the meditation hall, you should be abandoning all your thoughts and thoughts through liberation gate , .

Why is this easy?

(The first thing I saw when entering the Great Buddha Temple was a traditional flower art exhibition~)

2. Experience

At the entrance of the elevator outside the Zen Hall, volunteers greeted me, checked in, stored items, answered questions and answered questions early. In order to have a better experience, I invited a set of Zen uniforms, RMB 120, and my mind was still on the meditation cloak on the planet Youdola (at that time I thought it was 209 yuan, which was a little expensive, so I didn’t buy it).

(Picture from: Dafo Temple Meditation Center, infringement)

After listening to the monk's explanation, it was actually a preliminary training for a novice like me. Finally, I knew that there were three things I would do in the practical camp:

1. Xingxiang

2. Drink tea

3. Drinking incense

Picture from the meditation center, infringement

First of all, drinking tea, which surprised me. I was full of curiosity that night and had a lot of thoughts.

Walking Zen is actually walking around the Buddha statue in the middle of the meditation hall. Sitting in meditation is similar to meditation. You can use loose plates, single plates, and double plates to take your most relaxed posture.

But I have never participated in such intensive meditation~ Everything is fresh!

usually doesn’t meditate at home, and the time is basically not more than 15 minutes. For me, the most difficult thing about this test was to count the 45 minutes of meditation. After more than ten minutes, I found that my thighs were not my own. It may have been nearly half an hour. My forehead and temples were sweating wildly. My body was very hot and a little restless, my legs were numb, and I felt that I could not hold on anymore. I could not relieve my secret movements. The temples on both sides were very tight. had to scan it again from the beginning, and I thought to persuade myself to relax and relax . I sweated all over and slowly survived.

was relieved until the magic weapon rang out ~

was beaten by the master with a wooden board for incense and was left behind. I had never been beaten, but after being confused, I didn't know if I had been admitted.

Later I found out that the people who stayed were unqualified, and the mage would be persuaded to withdraw one by one.

Of course, it is still OK if you insist on participating in the seven-day meditation camp. The master is mainly worried that the future is too hard and tiring, and he cannot persist and waste his place.