definition
Also known as "sitting off", the language comes from Buddhism. "Closed doors" in Buddhism means that one or several people are together, and they concentrate on practicing meditation behind closed doors or several people are together, and concentrate on practicing meditation or reading scriptures, confessing and writing. And cut off all affairs and personnel exchanges. The shortest three days or seven days, the middle 2 1 day, 49 days or three months, the elderly can reach one year or even three years. Generally speaking, seclusion means living alone in a room or a small yard, while practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism live alone in caves. Someone who takes care of their daily life is called "protecting customs", and in martial arts novels, it is called "protecting the law" for those who are behind closed doors. After entering the customs, the entrance or portal must be closed, leaving only a small window for delivering food. Only when the internship expires can we get through. It is obvious that it is easy for people who break up to improve their spiritual skills quickly in a short time and even go deep into various meditations through the custom of breaking up.
Most of the martial arts masters described by novelists practice seclusion in order to break through the difficulties of practicing martial arts or concentrate on practicing martial arts in some novels. It is said that this kind of closed door has to go through four levels: wind, interest, interest and interest. At the beginning of the retreat, there were many hallucinations, and people who sat quietly suddenly felt that they were "spreading everything to create a breeze", which was for the sake of "wind"; At this stage, it is most likely to be possessed. In the second stage, the true qi fills the limbs, and the exerciser will naturally have deep and rapid breathing, that is, "panting"; In the third stage, strange sounds are shortness of breath and "qi"; After breathing, it becomes quiet and peaceful, that is, it has passed the "rest" level. After the four levels, you will be finished, and the closed people will return to normal. During the retreat, the human body was in an abnormal state, not only failed to resist the enemy's strength, but also avoided interference, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. Practicing behind closed doors is not mentioned much in many martial arts novels, and it is not trusted by its novelists.
meaning
Buddhism and Taoism practice must go through the closed-door stage. To put it simply, the yogi closes himself in a closed room, keeps away from contact with others and foreign affairs except the protector, refuses everything, and meditates for a long time by himself. This is the so-called retreat. However, this is only a superficial view of the secular world on the closed door. In fact, Buddhism's explanation of closed doors has another profound meaning. Buddhists believe that seclusion is a pollution behavior outside the three realms; What Guan Zhe means is that his behavior has nothing to do with the whole legal circle and its revision system, that is, the revision of certificates depends on a certain order.
Buddhism, Zen and tantric seclusion conditions are different. The most important thing for Buddhism behind closed doors is to have "four thoughts" as its ideological basis. Thought is: unclean body, bitterness is bitterness, impermanence of mind, selflessness of dharma. Because the body view is not clean, it is impermanent, diligent repair and pollution reduction to prevent impermanence and sudden death; Seeing suffering is suffering, but knowing that all suffering is suffering, we must empty our feelings to avoid troubles and persevere; Mind-watching is impermanent, so don't wander around with it to reduce the scattered and groggy heart; Observing the law without me is empty evidence. With these conditions, the closed-door policy can only be justified and can only be adhered to. Zen is not allowed to close its doors until it is enlightened. After enlightenment, we should close our doors, which is called the first level; If you break the first level, you have to live in the mountains, but you can travel freely in the mountains. This is called heavy customs; If you break the heavy customs, you will live in downtown areas and practice in sensual places. This is called prison customs. If you don't break the prison customs, you won't become a Buddha. The important conditions for tantric seclusion are four fundamentals, namely, master, deity, dakini and dharma protector, which will be introduced in detail below. In a word, whether the door is closed or not depends mainly on whether the great bodhicitta of all beings is developed and whether they practice.
kind
Closed doors can be divided into regular closed doors and convenient closed doors. A formal retreat is a real retreat, or a generalized retreat; Convenient retreat is not a real retreat, but a narrow retreat.
Judging from the time of the retreat, the formal retreat was designed for real monks. It not only requires monks not to be polluted by all the drama of nirvana of life and death, but also to complete the certification system according to the practice of the times. In other words, the formal rejection of the door solves the problem of how the family can achieve the highest achievement, solve the life-and-death event and break through the life-and-death barrier. Therefore, its closed time must be long-term, from several years to decades or even a lifetime. However, convenient closing is different. It is designed for amateurs or beginners at home, or people who are busy with their work and daily work. The closing time can be as short as several months or days. For example, winter and summer vacations or other holidays can be used to close the door.
Judging from the location of the closure, the location specified in the formal closure is very strict. The founder of Millary Bar stipulated that only three places (morgue, cemetery, cave and mountain) could be closed. In the retreat of the corpse forest, you can practice posture and prove emptiness, and you can also practice the cooperation between terror and emptiness. If you want to close the cave, you should choose the one with the hole facing south. There is no way to close this cave. It should be in a remote place. Enclosed in the highest snow-capped mountains, there are no clouds in Wan Li and clear skies in Wan Li all year round. Because of the high mountains and dense clouds, there is strong wind or fine snow, which is convenient for repairing handprints and dzogchen. The convenience of closing the door is not so particular. You can set up a closed room at home, office, factory and other places to close the door. )
Judging from the goal of closing, the goal of formal closing is as mentioned above, that is, to solve the major problems of life and death, to achieve the goal, to be close to death or to achieve success, and not to go through the customs until the goal is achieved. Convenient retreat is only a short-term separation from pollution, and it is a separation exercise, which solves some problems in practice.
As for the life of closing the country, according to the traditional regulations, whether the food of formal closing the country is meat or vegetarian depends on the law; You can't read ordinary books, but only classics related to setting goals; Unable to communicate and talk with the outside world; And there is no waiter in Guanzhong. It is much more free to retire when it is convenient. With everyone's autonomy, you can also study, have waiters, and ask doctors to diagnose diseases. But at least you should be forbidden, forbidden and meritorious. For modern people who have not become monks, it is of course appropriate to practice convenient Zen. But when they start to retire, they should still examine whether their motives are aboveboard and pure, and aim at saving all sentient beings so as not to be influenced by evil.