【修持轨理 The Meditation Session】此若串习，极难医改 If this becomes your habit, it will be difficult to correct your awareness P2
【修持轨理】后时如何行者
【此若串习，极难医改。】
承蒙他摄受，两个人关在一个地方，人家借给我们的一个地方，我们去修行。
然后他也告诉我，这个禅堂里的规矩，早晨起来嘛怎么样，这个挂，临济挂钟板怎么挂，然后曹洞怎么挂，然后等等。然后到禅堂里边一副，怎么板,那个香板应该打几下，怎么弄几下，我听了好有劲，啊！这个规矩美不可言。然后到时候跑上去坐，坐在那个地方一坐。结果一坐，嘿！绝没有三分钟，一看他，在那儿打瞌睡。我那时候因为多少转过几个圈子，多多少少还晓得一点怎么坐，所以坐得满好的。自己先是一心一意地坐，因为我要学他嘛！所以有时侯要注意他一下，一看他——怎么来的，不对啊，怎么一回事情啊？他大概也注意了，所以等到那一座下来以后，他就在那里，弄到后来干脆口水也直流，就在那儿睡着了。起来了以后，他也觉得：「啊！这一支坐得很好。」
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日常师父法语 24B 22’29”手抄稿第三册 P282LL3
24B 22’29” Vol. 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P282LL3
English Lamrim Volume 1, P100
【Meditation Session】
【What to do at the conclusion】
【If this becomes your habit, it will be difficult to correct your awareness.】
I am grateful for his care. So we locked ourselves up in this place that someone let us used temporarily. We then started to meditate.
Then he told me the rules of the meditation hall like what you do in the morning, how to hang the bell plate for the Lín Jì sect, how to do that for the Cáo Dòng sect and so on. As we got into the meditation hall, [he showed] the way to use the other bell plate, the number of times the incense board was to be hit and how many times you would need to do this other thing. I listened with great enthusiasm. Ah! The beauty of the rules is beyond words. So when time was up, we got into sitting meditation posture. However, once we started the session, hey! Not even three minutes had passed, by the time I looked up at him, he was already dozing off. At that time since I had been in a few different circles of practice, I kind of know what to do during a sitting meditation. So I did it quite well. I started off meditating wholeheartedly as I wanted to learn from him! So occasionally I would observe him. But when I looked at him…how come, it did not seem right. What was going on? He seemed to notice it too. So throughout the session, he remained there until towards the end, he started drooling and fell asleep. After he got up, he felt, "Ah! This session was really good."
