Meditation uses sitting positions. Standing up is too stimulating, and lying down leads to sleep. Good sitting positions {lotus position}| can have no tension or pain but keep meditator alert {full lotus position} {half lotus position} {Burmese position}. Meditators can sit on low benches with knees on floor and lower legs under bench. Hands can be palm up or palm down, on knees or in lap.
Concentrative meditation {hua tou} pays attention to one object or event, such as breathing or chant.
Meditation methods {shikantaza} can be just sitting, being attentive to everything.
In Zen Buddhism, open meditation {zazen} is consciousness without response, with open eyes looking at a plain wall.
In Zen, the pure-consciousness state can stop breathing {chi shi}. While person is still conscious, nerve-activity level reduces until breathing stops, for 30 seconds, and then normal breathing resumes.
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