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David Brazier says "A mantra is a word or phrase which is held in mind to protect the mind from unwholesome influences and to cultivate awareness of the higher purpose. A mantra is a spell. Mostly people live in a kind of trance. The mantra is a spell which breaks the trance."
I recite the Om Mani Padme Hum and Green Tara mantras daily.
When I placed an order on the Wofs site, I received a gorgeous little book called "Chant a mantra, read a sutra," by Lillian Too.
We find the Heart Sutra, and mantras of Vajrasattva, Medicine Buddha, Amitabha, Guru Rinpoche, Manjushri, etc. Lillian Too admonishes that the merits you collect by repeating certain mantras will increase by 100,000 or that this one brings good luck, or breaks a spell, or gets your wishes come true.
The mantra reciting procedure reminds me very much of the Catholic practice of praying the rosary or praying to saints.
In all honesty, sometimes I feel downright gullible for praying mantras. I even have the impression that on one sutta, the Buddha is quoted as dismissing the practice of prayers as useless, but can't remember which one it is. @Citta, you said to @Jeffrey "Never doubt its worth." What is your take on mantra reciting? How do you explain that worth?
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Om Mani Padme Hum.
A favourable and auspicious re-birth awaits him, I'm sure.....
Yeah I just saw that on FB. I have dedicated mantras to him for what it is worth.
Never doubt its worth @Jeffrey..
May he escape samsara and if not, may he have a happy and meaningful rebirth.
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I really wish we had a :hands: ... emoticon
David Brazier says "A mantra is a word or phrase which is held in mind to protect the mind from unwholesome influences and to cultivate awareness of the higher purpose. A mantra is a spell. Mostly people live in a kind of trance. The mantra is a spell which breaks the trance."
I recite the Om Mani Padme Hum and Green Tara mantras daily.
When I placed an order on the Wofs site, I received a gorgeous little book called "Chant a mantra, read a sutra," by Lillian Too.
We find the Heart Sutra, and mantras of Vajrasattva, Medicine Buddha, Amitabha, Guru Rinpoche, Manjushri, etc. Lillian Too admonishes that the merits you collect by repeating certain mantras will increase by 100,000 or that this one brings good luck, or breaks a spell, or gets your wishes come true.
The mantra reciting procedure reminds me very much of the Catholic practice of praying the rosary or praying to saints.
In all honesty, sometimes I feel downright gullible for praying mantras. I even have the impression that on one sutta, the Buddha is quoted as dismissing the practice of prayers as useless, but can't remember which one it is.
@Citta, you said to @Jeffrey "Never doubt its worth." What is your take on mantra reciting? How do you explain that worth?
today, the sun had a rainbow ring around it all day
namo amitayus
@dharmamom I'll start a thread...hopefully not a civil war...snork...