Chants for tiredness

amsbam1

I would like to find some chants to help with tiredness. Sometimes, despite being well rested, I feel tired, and I think this is quite a mental thing and that it would be posible to overcome this lethargy with the correct mental state.

So I though, there might be some buddhist chants for this sort of thing. Do you know of any?

Thanks a lot

Jeffrey

ohm ma nay pemay hum
oh ma nay pemay hum
oh ma nay pemay hum

Find a youtube to get the rhythm and notes

(arousing bodhicitta)
May the heart's awareness
waken in the unawakened
Where it has begun to stir
May it awaken fully

(refuge)
lama la chapsu chey o
Sanjay la chapsu chey o
cho la chapsu chey o
gendun la chapsu chey o

in english

I go to refuge to the guru
I go to refuge to the buddha
I go to refuge to the dharma
I go to refuge to the sangha


(another refuge)

I go to refuge to all the buddhas until all sentient beings realize buddhahood
x3

how

I do not know the cause of your lethargy!

But..

My lethargy, like many others I've met, has always ended up being something I was unable to fully face. My route through it has always depended on my eventual willingness to surrender to, accept or address something I was avoiding looking at.

One of the more dramatic examples of this was a fellow meditator who had terminal dropsy when attempting to meditate. Every minute he would doze off and catch himself at the last moment as gravity took hold of him in one direction or another.

I marvelled at his years of perseverance at what was obviously a difficult practise.

One day it just stopped.

He told me that his job as a fisheries scientist was to cut open the stomachs of live caught fish to examine their contents. Somewhere he thought this was wrong for him but had been unwilling to look at this for the job consequences that would unfold if he stopped.

Long story short... he stopped doing it & never dozed again in a meditation that I witnessed.

amsbam1

Jeffrey, do you know anywhere I can find out more about this chant? Do you know why it is supposed to help with tirredness?

Jeffrey

All chants help with tiredness because the meaning enhances the flow of energy, heart energy.

You can sign on with Buddhism Connect of the awakened heart sangha of lama shenpen hookham. She talks about all kinds of things, but not usually chanting.

fivebells

Not a chant, but a talk on Generating Energy.

amsbam1

Fivebells, just listened to the talk, very interesting

Mr_Serenity

It had been a while since I heard chants like this.
But immediately I can feel a bit of peacefulness and relief that other music hasn't been able to bring me lately.

lobster

Om Vajrapani Hum

That will give you a great bolt of energy. :wow:

Jeffrey

Zaaaaaaaap!

Jeffrey

Here's the bodhicitta chant (may the heart's awareness... etc) in tibetan. It sounds better to me than the english because I have chanted it so much,

(all my foreign language shants are phonetically rather than correct)

chang chub sem nee rinpo shay
ma jay panom chay jur chig
chaypa nyampa maypa tong
gongnay gongdo pelwa sho

footiam

amsbam1 said:

I would like to find some chants to help with tiredness. Sometimes, despite being well rested, I feel tired, and I think this is quite a mental thing and that it would be posible to overcome this lethargy with the correct mental state.

So I though, there might be some buddhist chants for this sort of thing. Do you know of any?

Thanks a lot

I haven't heard of chants to overcome tiredness. In fact, I do think if you spend too much time chanting, it would get you tired, if not physically, then, you'll just get tired of the chants. If you have slept well, could it then have to do with things you eat or perhaps, you have in your mind that you are tired and need some chants to perk up. Afterall, as you say, this is a mental thing.

amsbam1

Hi footiam, what type of chants would you recommend for perking up?