The Adjustment of the Mind
Zen recommends that its practitioner follow a three-step procedure: adjusting one’s body, breathing and mind.
To adjust the mind means that the practitioner consciously moves to enter a state of meditation.
He learns to disengage him- or herself from the concerns of daily life by the immobile bodily posture and the breathing exercise.
Meditation trains one to sit face-to-face with one’s self, while creating a psychological isolation from the external world.
This mechanism is the same as when one has a dream at night when the level of consciousness is lowered.
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