Decipher the mysteries of meditation

Never research works on the secrets of meditation are re-mentioned by the mass media, major media companies, as recently. News agencies such as AP, Reuter newspapers such as News Week, Time . have many detailed articles describing the discoveries of British and American scientists through magnetic resonance imaging of the brain's activities. The Zen master, discovered many things before, when it comes to most people think that these are just the feelings acquired by the self-deprecating or imagined methods.

The Reuters report led the statement by Professor Owen Flangan of Duke University in North Carolina, saying: "Now we can argue with many believing that the monks' figures have a sleek appearance. escape, peace that we often see in places like Dharamsala, India, is that they are really happy. "

In 1967, Professor Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School conducted research on 36 meditators and found that when meditating they used 17% less oxygen than usual, reduced 3 heart rate / minute and increased theta waves in Brain - Gregg Jacobs (cbtforinsomnia) is like the pre-sleeping state - while the whole brain is still awake. Seven years later, Dr. Gregg Jacobs, Harvard University, via brainwave discovered that meditators can produce a lot of theta waves and can block the frontal brain that receives and handles colds. In addition, they also minimize activity in the apical part of the brain, which is responsible for the sense of space - time. By "turning off" the brain's apical lobes, people can lose their sense of limit and see the universe "become one".

Another recent study by Paul Ekman of the Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, suggests that meditation and contemplation can be overcome by the amygdale, a region of the brain that stores signs Fear of fear. Ekman discovered that senior Zen masters were hard to shock, insecure, panicked or angry like other ordinary people. The adrenal glands, which produce new Adrrenalin, fill the heart rate in cases of fear, panic, almost completely controlled by the Zen masters. He stated in a report in the New Scientist magazine that "The most logical theory is that there is something in Buddhist meditation that leads to a peaceful source that we all have. pursuit " .

Scientists are convinced that meditation is fully capable of "washing" the brain, releasing stressful areas because blood is in a state of congestion . Meditation trends in the United States believe that meditation can cure cardiovascular diseases, stress, cancer, even AISD, and has replaced Viagra! These things are not really exaggerated, all the activities of the body, every disease considered for the same comes from the brain. A healthy brain will definitely have a healthy body.

Try to explain these things on the basis of the known and based meditation texts in Buddhism we see; Human brain has 100 billion neurons. Each neuron through the pathways is related to 50,000 other neurons. This is easy to understand the complex operation of handling the enormous information volumes of the brain. But this also allows us to understand the saying that the Buddha used to say: "A mind that arises is a coincidence . " A neuron works, immediately the spread takes place as in a nuclear reaction! Thoughts follow thoughts and thoughts form. Try to sit for five minutes at your leisure and count how many times you think about it! Usually no less than 10 different things to think about! Strangely, apart from the time when we were focused on working, we didn't use our brains very much in the nonsense .

However it is normal for healthy people. In people with mental illness their thoughts may have only one but they cannot stop it, it goes on developing in an explosive way and to some extent the sick person lives with those thoughts, the thoughts come true, and we call them crazy. People in stressful states, too, cannot get rid of the feelings they fall into. This will lead to negative effects throughout the body. Some people suffer from cardiovascular disease, people have stomach pain, insomnia, neurasthenia, body .

So healthy normal people already know that thoughts are not real and should not be followed. We all know to stop after "running" with it. This is normal but Zen masters say it's delusion. This way of calling is not unreasonable at the point of uselessness and meaninglessness. Meditation methods seek to block thoughts that do not allow them to arise right from the root. There is a method that directs the focus of thinking on other things such as counting the breath, tracking the body on a square centimeter, or objectively monitoring your thoughts without loosening, thinking about what you know you are think that; There is a method that focuses on thinking on a koan, ie a question with almost no answer, for example, when my face is not born yet; methodically focusing on sitting and knowing that you are sitting, there is a method like Nhat Hanh's in France that always mentions "Inhale the calm mind, breathe out and smile" ; There is a method like that of Mr. Thanh Tu at Truc Lam Pagoda in Da Lat, "Knowing not to follow", referred to as Hope; methodically reciting or shrugging gently following a certain dance . It is all a purpose of making the activity of the human brain settle down, quiet, gradually reaching emptiness.

This is not easy if not extremely difficult. Instinctively, our brains do not stand still, even when we are sleeping. In Buddhist scriptures we read the phrase "Buddhas sleep without dreams!". This shows that the enlightened one has completely reached another state of activity of the brain and this is clearly unknown to science.

The Zen family has the following story: Huong Nghiem understands the greatness of the universe but still is not enlightened. One day Quy Son came and said: "You are very clever and intelligent but tell me, where did you come from?". Huong Nghiem went to rummage through all the books to find the answer. Coming to the same question is where does this universe come from. Without answering himself, he went to Quy Son and pleaded: "Please open me the secret of this statement" . Quy Son said: "If I explain it to you clearly, you will resent it later." So Huong Nghiem dumped everything to go home to land. One day after ten years, while he was in a row of grass, he bumped into a gourd and picked it up and cast it into a bamboo bush. Mieng connoisseur touches a dry bamboo tree and gives a special sound. Huong Nghiem was enlightened. He understood where he came from, where the universe came from. He knelt down and bowed to Quy Son and said, "Teacher, your goodness is immense. If you explain that day, how can you get this wonderful experience . "

Just like the sound koan of a hand, the koan "Where do we come from?" In terms of knowledge can be classified as a perception of a law of nature. Modern philosophy calls it the law of movement, matter is always moving, movement is an attribute of matter. Modern philosophy, Western philosophy, approaches laws, attributes of matter, the universe of life . through concepts. Eastern philosophy in general and Buddhism in particular, do not do so, the concepts are always obstacles, the tri-minded, not for human beings to carry their minds as well as their bodies to penetrate the rules law is universal. When enlightened, every cell is imbued with the law of attainment. Any religion, the ultimate goal is always the motivation for followers to follow and strive. In Buddhism it is enlightenment, which is Nirvana.

Another explanation of enlightenment is the addition of a grain of salt to the sea. However, there is still no way. Let us try to assume that we are enlightened, we have wisdom with many wonderful miracles, ears can be heard thousands of miles, eyes can see through the mountains of the sea, our bodies can go back to the clouds wind, shine aura, clear spirit without any obstacle, it is understandable to create what it is, God, if it is, he will drink tea with him without any hesitation. etc . then, what will my body be like? Because these divine powers are difficult to know, difficult to interpret, because that spiritual life is almost impossible to understand, cannot be verified, cannot be confirmed, we will find out at a different angle. See what our body will look like then.

What does not know but surely one thing that it will not be like our body before. What does not know but surely one thing we will not have any disease? It is ungainly that an enlightened person has blood pressure, heart attack, tuberculosis or cancer. There may be some acute surgical diseases such as fractures, appendicitis, or dysentery due to poisoning of poisonous mushrooms that the Buddha has . and in addition, our body is a healthy to transparent . The disease does not know but mental illness such as blood pressure, cardiovascular, stress, insomnia, headache, dizziness, dizziness, weakness, joint pain, diabetes . will never get. The person who has suffered, if the enlightenment is complete, the disease will disappear. (Photo: sivananda) Definitely like that. Let us imagine, these diseases appear due to stress and anxiety. The enlightened person doesn't know, but it is surely that he is no longer afraid or worried. Their life is a grace of creation given in every second, every minute, and ask how does blood pressure rise? Blood pressure is a medical condition that cannot be cured. We don't have evidence yet but with what we know we can be sure that enlightened people never increase blood pressure. Cardiologists must also agree with this. And since then we will have sleep always delicious, especially never dreaming. Ananda, when he told his dreams to the Buddha to hear Buddha, also said that the Buddhas never dreamed. There are no dreams of good or bad, good or evil oil appearing in the sleep of enlightened people.

This is the tiny overhang of the iceberg; the largest, most important, most quintessential part of it remains submerged. Only with a little bit of recognition can we believe that it is very real.

With this assumption we can temporarily believe that the person in a moment of enlightenment will find strange and unprecedented changes happening in his body. It was as clear as Mr. Hui Kha said, "It usually knows clearly, words don't come!" He felt as if he felt like Hue Nang said "Who is .", it was also full of emotion like Mr. Bat Tuy went unsteadily, rammed his head several times, came home and cried for three nights and three days. because of it. Zen monk Hui Kaijian after six years of freezing, one day when he heard the drum of the lunch, he suddenly realized and responded to the following verse: The cloudy sky suddenly stopped. Everything on earth, eyes suddenly see. Many thousands of purple and purple bowed their heads. Tu-di Mountain also dances joyfully. The monk was impressed by the monk Nguyet Lam When describing your differences in the last moment and the next moment with such images, the thunder rising up, the Tu di mountain also dances, we know that these are very specific feelings like In the immediate future, touching with your hand, there is absolutely nothing in the mind. It was not like Archimede or Newton shouted happily but it was easy to suddenly die from a broken heart or stroke, the enlightened person was completely different.

And in this state, ignorance or enlightenment, nirvana or hell, holy or mortal, ghost or Buddha, anger or let go, self or selflessness, the material world is often impermanent. What is important! Every second is every grace that Creator has given. The miracles are also not important because they themselves are one of the greatest miracles. In that still state, we will hear all the marvelous sounds of creation, from the birds singing to the disco-eared music, from the sound of the buds rising to the sound of the people. distant stars. In 761, King Túc Tông of the Tang Dynasty invited Huệ Trung to the imperial capital to become a monk. During the time, the king asked him many questions, but he never looked at the king once. The new King angrily said: "I am the Heavenly Prince of the Great Road, why don't you once try to look at me?". Hue Trung replied: "Do you see nothing on there?" "Have". "Didn't you wink at your majesty?" . The mind is completely not belong to the consciousness, but it is clear that we are in harmony with the universe, in harmony with the very real tree grass, modern science and modern psychology are completely unknown.

Is it true, don't know, only one thing is for sure that we will hear the voices of our body most clearly. This is the mystery of enlightened beings. Nearly all know the moment we are gone and all are calmly received. Saying that is a little far away, in this state, death and life have no distinction. Or one thing is that it doesn't need a bit of consciousness to confirm that. We, the people still talk about serenity at death, prepare for death, see death as a feather, but see death as living without a little consciousness is only in people enlightened.

In short, that's still the case . like we watch dinosaur movies! All are based on a few fossilized "bones" , leaving no dinosaurs to know how to live. Scientists are looking for ways to regenerate it. So is Enlightenment, Buddhists are waiting for Tathagata to appear even though the Buddhist spirit does not consider it important.

It seems that it is time for people to begin to understand the value of the other side of the brain's activity, the calm, inactive, but very awake face. People have devised hundreds of fitness methods for the body, but an exercise method for the mind is almost unthinkable. Fortunately, people have been meditating for more than 2,500 years ago, although they are forgotten or misconstrued many things will eventually make a positive contribution to human life and civilization in the millennium. This Tuesday.

Ho Trung Tu