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Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha
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Green Tara Mantra
(for our good friend and her young daughter)
(for our good friend and her young daughter)
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Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā
Ong Dalie Dudalie Dulie Suoha
The "v" in Sanskrit is pronounced (in Sanskrit) at times as "v" or "w" or something in-between.
In the Chinese rendition, "swoha" often becomes straight-out "soha."
Vietnamese shows another historic linguistic trajectory: bà ha
So, in Vietnamese, the "v" (or how they heard it) sounded more like "b."
Rather than being outright "mispronunciations" of Sanskrit, often these things are reflections of a particular Sanskrit dialect.
Anyway, a fortnight into being there, I was so anxious and worried for them both, that one night, I stayed up until the early hours of the morning, and sat in meditation, chanting this Tara mantra, over and over again. At some point, I must have fallen asleep, but I know that when I woke up, the trantra was still playing in my mind, like a piece of music you can't get out of your head.
I left it playing, unchecked.....
Now, you can make of this whatever you want, I really don't mind.
I'm not sure I want to pin anything on it either - but from the following afternoon, both of them began to improve, and over the next week, they felt better and better every day.
So much so, that about 10 days later, I felt confident and happy enough to leave them and return home.
And I follow Theravada....
As a friend has written elsewhere (my slight paraphrase, from memory), "The Buddhas did not come to make us Tibetan, or Chinese, or Thai, or Australian; they came to make us Buddhas."
There is only one Dharma, however many of the 84,000 Dharma gates we may discover.
We meditate to wake up, not to sleep, but I also actually also enjoy falling asleep to Dharma chants and music. Meditation is about the focus of our attention, and a form attention obtains even when we sleep.
I don't think we need to feel at all apologetic about the consolatory aspects of Buddhism. We turn to these compassionate beings during moments of great distress and pain for good reason -- they are always there. They are always *here*.
Dharma practice oughtn't be a military boot camp. Dharma practice ought to bring softness and gentleness to our lives, even when it calls for discipline and exertion...
Love the way you put that!
Doing morning Tara Puja now
I consider recitation, whether done silently or aloud, to be a form of mediation since one's attention is placed on the mantra or dharini as an object just as one might the breath (for example) while one says, chants or sings.
Listening may be different, but consider the forms of listening -- if it is background noise the mantra isn't particularly garnering our attention. If we are listening intently, then it is like anything else -- it enters our mind and we mentally interact with it. If one already knows the content then this type of listening automatically becomes a kind of recitation since the mind is anticipating the syllables before and as they occur.
Hope the Tara Puja is a good for you...