I think meditation is misunderstood. One of the old Buddhist suttas on meditation is the Satipatthana Sutta. The title is translated as The Discourse on the Arousing of Mindfulness. If you're truly mindful you're meditating. Some of the sections in the sutta are -
The Contemplation of the Body
----The Section on Breathing
----The Section on the Modes of Deportment
The Contemplation of Feeling
The Contemplation of Consciousness
The Contemplation of Mental Objects
and so on. In The Section on the Modes of Deportment it is written
“Again, bhikkhus, when walking, a bhikkhu understands: ‘I am walking’; when standing, he understands: ‘I am standing’; when sitting, [57] he understands: ‘I am
sitting’; when lying down, he understands: ‘I am lying down’; or he understands accordingly however his body is disposed. 7. “In this way he abides contemplating the body as a body internally, externally, and both internally and externally … And he abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world. That too is how a bhikkhu
abides contemplating the body as a body.
I think it's obvious that if you're mindful of your training you will be better than if you're just
going through the motions, if you're
not paying attention to what you're doing.
Zhuangzi writes about this in his story of cook Ding -
https://daoismandplay.wordpress.com/2021/03/08/cook-ding/Cook Ding is mindful. And with taijiquan form training the mind is turned inward; are you loose and relaxed, are you lightly pressing up the top of the head, is the chest dropped, are you connected? Are you using neijin?
My opinion.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:41 am
