What are the benefits of sitting cross-legged? What are the taboos of sitting cross-legged?

Meditation can not only maintain health and prolong life, but also open wisdom and increase intelligence, so various martial arts schools, Buddhism, Confucianism, and yoga attach great importance to meditation. Therefore, double-cross-legged meditation is also the best way for people to maintain health.

What is Double Cross-legged Meditation

"Sitting in meditation" is also called sitting cross-legged, sitting quietly, sitting cross-legged, or sitting in a double-crossed lotus position. It is a basic practice in Taoism, which was first evolved from the ancients' sitting and kneeling.

One of the benefits of meditation in Buddhism and Taoism is that it helps to concentrate the mind and chant the Buddha's name and scriptures, which can help cultivate the Buddha's nature. This is the most primitive and intuitive method. In addition, the benefits of meditation are health preservation.

Benefits of sitting cross-legged:

1. Anyone can practice double lotus. Even if you start at 60, you can master it in about a year. If you start in your 30s, it will take less than a year.

2. Double-lotus sitting not only exercises the muscles and bones, but also opens up all the meridians.

3. If you practice it and insist on sitting cross-legged for 20 minutes every day, you can climb mountains like a young man at the age of 70. You will basically be free from all diseases.

4. After you have mastered the double-cross-legged position, you will no longer have back pain when you sit in meditation. If your kidney qi is sufficient, you will not even be able to sit with your back bent. If your qi is sufficient, your spine will be very straight.

5. After a few days of practice, you will have persistent leg pain and back pain. It will also hurt when you are not practicing. This is normal because it is a beginner.

6. The specific training method is to do some hip-opening exercises before double-lotus position, and then try to do double-lotus position until you can do it, and then endure the pain until the time becomes longer and longer.

7. Practicing double-lotus can quickly promote gastrointestinal motility.

8. Double-lotus sitting not only opens the meridians and blood vessels in the legs, but also opens the hip joints.

9. In the double-lotus position, the ankles actually press against the large arteries on the inner thighs. In order to open the arteries, the heart will increase the force of pumping blood, thus opening the blood vessels in the legs. Before opening the blood vessels in the legs, since the arteries in the legs cannot pump blood, the whole body's blood is concentrated in the upper body, and at this time the heart is increasing the blood supply, so the internal organs will receive a large amount of blood supply, which will quickly improve the function of the internal organs.

Notes on meditation:

There is an introductory book on meditation, and there are also "Three Essential Elements for Beginners in Meditation" in the "Practice Methods" on the website. If you practice slowly according to this, you will make progress in meditation, but don't be impatient.

You must first train your Dantian so that you can meditate for a long time. If your Dantian is not formed, you will not be able to bear the pain in your feet every time you meditate.