Chapter 36 Warm link: sleep less, but also full of energy?

Knowing that the role of sleep is to meditate, to remove the toxins brought to the body by mental activities, to repair the damage caused by mental activities to the body, and to know the benefits of deep sleep, then we can explain why some people can be full of energy even when they sleep less up. Let's look at a few cases first: This is the work and rest time of the Jingzong Buddhist Academy presided over by the old monk Miaolian in Taiwan: wake up at 2:45 a.m. every day, and do morning classes from 3:15 to 5:20.After going down to the Highness, in order to strengthen the body and train the team spirit, gather people to do sangha aerobics and run mountains; use the Buddha's name as the spiritual answer to fully express the vigorous vitality. At 6:00 and 11:00, go to the hall for breakfast and lunch, and behave according to the law. From 8:00 am to 11:00 pm, and from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, go to the hall to recite the Sutras of the Pure Land Mahayana and Buddha, or go out of the slope as needed (note: going out of the slope is labor ) Cultivate blessings, or do the work of each deacon well; during the end of summer, when you live in peace, you will talk about precepts, listen to precepts, and recite precepts.At 1:00 p.m., we will play the Jingjin board and study or chant sutras individually.From 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., everyone will enter the hall to participate in the "Incense of Wisdom and Life", and return the full-day homework to the West to obtain personal Dharma Body and Wisdom Life.Rest on the board until 10 o'clock, and finish the one-day course.

These monks get up at 2:45 every day and go to bed at 10:00 pm. They sleep for less than five hours a day. They don't rest at noon and have a lot of homework during the day.But they are full of energy every day, and I have never heard of anyone getting tired. Why do these practitioners need less time?The main reason is that they have fewer distracting thoughts, and the damage and toxins caused by emotions to the body are not much, and it does not take much time to repair and clear them.Moreover, because they have good kungfu, less distracting thoughts, and high quality sleep, less than eight hours of sleep a day is enough.Those who fight for greed and intrigue all day long sleep longer.

After all, there are very few people who can have such kung fu.Sleeping is a natural activity, not easy to be controlled by oneself, often having dreams, restless at night, so the heart still cannot be truly quiet.Some people sleep for more than ten hours a day, but they are still groggy. This is because the quality of sleep is not high.Moreover, sleeping too much can easily make people sleepy, "sleeping for a long time hurts the spirit", and the gain outweighs the gain.Is there an efficient way of meditation that can be controlled by humans? Of course there is, that is meditation.