{"id":118,"date":"2017-12-29T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africasiaeuro.com\/shaolin\/?p=118"},"modified":"2018-11-01T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:42:23","slug":"meditation_part_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africasiaeuro.com\/shaolin\/meditation_part_1\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDITATION IN SHAOLIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Meditation part 1<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/africasiaeuro.com\/shaolin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shaolin-02-e1514573636306.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[118]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16\" src=\"http:\/\/africasiaeuro.com\/shaolin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shaolin-02-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"shaolin temple\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shaolin temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8211; When posing in a &#8220;double knot seating position&#8221;, eyes viewing the tip of one&#8217;s nose, one does not look around, but stays focused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; With \u201ceyes cast down, nose pointing to the mouth, and the mouth viewing one&#8217;s heart\u201d, one can control body and mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Your waist must be straight, it should be a relaxed position; therefore one cannot bend down, neither Should the body be turned crooked towards the left, nor slanting towards the right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This vision is comparable to a bell, well stabilized, motionless, without swinging, not like a clock pendulum and shaking and swinging towards west and east.<\/p>\n<h3>MEDITATION<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In double cross legged seating position the posture only then conforms with meditation practices.<\/p>\n<p>One begins the studies of imperial sacrifices &#8211; a task of which the human mind 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