Chapter 5 Which is the best introductory reference book for meditation

Decades ago, people who wanted to learn "meditation" did not dare to learn "meditation" without the guidance of a master (not a famous teacher). Dan is a book for immortals), half-knowledge, blind practice. After 1924, books such as Zhang Sanfeng’s Secrets of Taiji Alchemy, Yin Shizi’s Meditation Method, Okada’s Meditation Method, and Qigong Secrets, etc., were read everywhere with the enlightenment of the times, the popularization of education, and the development of printing. arrive.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Tiantai sect of Buddhism's books on the practice of meditation and meditation, such as the six wonderful gates of small meditation and meditation, Maha (big) meditation and meditation, Yuan Liaofan's sequel to meditation, etc., also became popular and spread widely.At the same time, Tantric practice classics translated from Tibetan into Chinese, or Tantric books translated from English and French, have also been made public one after another.Among them, the reprinted version of "Cultivation of Shamatha and Meditation of Contemplation" written by Master Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Yellow Sect of Tantric Buddhism, is the same as the method of meditation and meditation in Tiantai sect, which is more secure.However, books about Buddhist practice of meditation (meditation) must be integrated with the teachings of all Buddhism in order to be corresponding.