Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

All this concerns sitting practice, but Zhi Yi also says
some useful things regarding practice in daily life. But
note: one should first gain proficiency in the sitting
practices, and then one will be able to apply his advice
in daily life. This is very important for the Western
person, as it seems that he or she very often wants to
practice the other way around, beginning one's practice
in daily life without adequate preparation in sitting. If
we try to do things in this wrong fashion then still the
disturbed mind, the sleepy mind, and all the other
samatha obstacles will hinder us. The trouble is that
people do not want to work so much in training, but
would rather try to apply meditation in day-to-day life,
to make it easier, but that is in fact nearer to the position
of consequence. Few people really want to sit still and
practice for hours, days, weeks, months, or years; and
who wants to renounce, or to lead a hermit's life, or to
be confined by one's teacher—ugh! It is no doubt much
easier to say, "My daily life is my meditation." (or
"Daily life is Zen," which one hears now as a
pseudo-zen slogan in the West). This is easily said but
difficult to do (see also Ch. XV).
What headings does Zhi Yi give for daily-life
meditations? First he gives the well-known Buddhist
classification of bodily positions into four: walking (not
"acting," as in the translation), standing, sitting, and
reclining, to which he adds "doing things" and
"speaking." Here again some remarks seem called for in
view of his explanation (see Dhyana for Beginners, VI,
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