"Knowing profit is long, knowing profit is short!" The simplest understanding of "awareness" is "knowing the length of breath and knowing the shortness of breath" and "perception". Before meditation, let go of the past, the present and the future, focus on the nose and people, and know the length of breathing through the little' touch' of breathing. If you can't do this, just focus on breathing. You should know that breathing is long and breathing is short. It's like you know how to inhale and exhale. After getting used to it, when the heart becomes calm, I feel that there will be a' point' near the person breathing, and then slowly hold it down. At first, this point will move because of the lack of definition.
The specific way is to put your right foot on your left foot, put your hands in the middle, put your right palm on the palm of your left hand, and then put it between your legs, and connect your two thumbs together. Keep your back as straight as possible. Put a 5 cm cushion on the bottom, so that the bottom and feet are inclined downward in a little arc. It would be better to sit in a fixed position. Relax your body. If you are a beginner, you can count the inhalation first, say' Buddha' silently when inhaling, and say' Tuo' silently when exhaling, about five minutes. Let the heart concentrate easily. Before meditation, you need to make some preparations, such as chanting, taking a bath, stretching your muscles and so on. Let the body relax as much as possible. After five minutes of meditation on the Buddha, let the Buddha go. Let your heart follow your breath, feel the length and weight of your breath, choose the most comfortable way to breathe, and don't deliberately change the rhythm of your breath. Breathing can basically be divided into long exhalation and long inhalation, long and short, short and short. Until the heart is calm, there will be a point around the nose that can be fixed. Then concentrate and pay attention to breathing. After that, you will feel the comfort of breathing, and then guide and amplify this comfort to the whole body. Then breathing is in step with the body. This process will take at least one hour.
Next, I suggest reading the Great Heart Sutra, as well as the Handbook of Meditation and Leaves in the Palm. It can be found on the website of the Road to Enlightenment. Preparation before meditation is very important. The advice for beginners is that the preparation time of meditation is twice as long as that of meditation. If you can't do it, try your best to do it.