神秀的偈

神秀的偈:"身是菩提樹, 心如明鏡台, 時時勤拂拭, 免使惹塵埃."
慧能也寫了一個偈, 批評神秀的不對.
他的偈:
"菩提本無樹, 明鏡亦非台, 本來無一物, 何處惹塵埃."
在這裡, 慧能說了那麼多否定的話,
可見得他尚不知那個為何物?
比喻猜謎, 打一物, 謎底是橘子一個. 猜香蕉, 蘋果等等, 都不對, 只有說出橘子才是答案.
菩提本無樹, 明鏡亦非台, 本來無一物, 道出答案了? 沒有.
現在的偈, 看得到慧能還說不上來, 那是個什麼?
所以說慧能在這個時候, 還沒有悟.
待悟時, 就說出了自性的五個本質,
何期自性本自清淨,
何期自性本不生滅,
何期自性本自俱足,
何期自性本無動搖,
何期自性能生萬法.
這個時候, 他悟了, 明白了.
究竟沒有? 還沒有呢!

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pranayama

yama means control, prana means vital force; to control energy through breathing. there are two ways to practice it. one is natural way; one is unnatural way. breath in, hold , breath out is the natural way. breath out, hold then breath in is unnatural way. unnatural way is very dangerous. Ananda Marga Guru, Shrii Shrii Ananda Murtiji once said if you do breathing in a wrong way even i can not save you. when i read this sentence. i could feel cold in my spine. wrong way does not mean unnatural breathing. i have been practicing unnatural breathing way for a long time, but i don't teach unnatural breathing way. this is our 4th lesson and 6th lesson up all involved breathing. banda, veda involve breathing a lot. that's why it heals fast. but you have to have a refine and very subtle body to do it. ....i can be on and on.....use two nerves channel, ida and pingala; one is blue and one is white, .....

when people do asana in the beginning, always use diaphragm breathing, actually correct breathing is diaphragm breathing, not nostril or nose, and never use month. i saw many people doing breathing practice in a wrong way, later they developed the problem with transparency mucus from nostrils. Many senior teachers who had taught tai-ji or yoga for many year carry this problem.

so be careful while you are using mouth to do the breathing. i never use mouth to breath, always use diaphragm. When lifting heavy load work, always use a proper breathing way, either natural or unnatural (if you are familiar with it). Don't hold breath too long out of your limit. Or press the air back to your lump. It will create big trouble later. Master pranayam will unblock all the knots on the sushuna. One day this Kulakundalinii will arise up and merge into different chakras. That's why we need to learn left and right channel deeper until we master to control them while we are practicing the 4th lesson.