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Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
What Is Mantra, Anyway?
The word Mantra is a composition of two Sanskrit root words: the first root being "man", means "continual or contant thinking". The second root "tra", means "free" or "to be free". Mantra is a process by which you free yourself from worries or doubts, but not from consciousness. Mantra is a means of transcending thought, and bringing consciousness to a much higher level of spiritual being. The root "tri" also means "to protect". In India, many mantras are called protective mantras.
A true mantra is one which frees you from constrictive limitations of mind thought. The whole meaning of practicing mantra is to find some degree of peace. When my thoughts are distracted during meditation, I begin chanting one of my favorite mantras, Om Nama Shiva Ya. Shiva is the divinity principle that dissolves away all imbalances. This mantra means "Oh Lord of Auspiciousness, to You my salutations again and yet again." It is a powerful mantra utilizied to experience God-consciousness.
Chanting a mantra calms down the mental chatter and allows me to connect more deeply to the spiritual experience, and myself. Although every mantra does have a word meaning, it is the feeling evoked within you, through the repetition of the mantra, that is meaningful. Mantra creates a stirring within your soul. It produces a spark. It acts as a catalyst to bring forth a stream of positive creative feelings, which will produce constructive thinking.
A true mantra is one which frees you from constrictive limitations of mind thought. The whole meaning of practicing mantra is to find some degree of peace. When my thoughts are distracted during meditation, I begin chanting one of my favorite mantras, Om Nama Shiva Ya. Shiva is the divinity principle that dissolves away all imbalances. This mantra means "Oh Lord of Auspiciousness, to You my salutations again and yet again." It is a powerful mantra utilizied to experience God-consciousness.
Chanting a mantra calms down the mental chatter and allows me to connect more deeply to the spiritual experience, and myself. Although every mantra does have a word meaning, it is the feeling evoked within you, through the repetition of the mantra, that is meaningful. Mantra creates a stirring within your soul. It produces a spark. It acts as a catalyst to bring forth a stream of positive creative feelings, which will produce constructive thinking.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
In the beginning..
Welcome to my blog, Meditate This, where I will take you along my journey of meditation, yoga and Buddhism. Meditation, Buddhism and yoga have helped to change my outlook on the world. I am new to Buddhism. I am learning as much as I can, day by day. I have always had an interest in Buddhism since my teenager years, but I've just started to study it and incorporate it into to my life over the past 2 years.
One of the best parts about meditation that it is free, acccesible anywhere, and I don't have to change into special clothes to do it. Once I've reached a level of focus, which I like to call "the zone", I have such a sense of calm that is unachieveable anywhere else. Meditation calms and focuses my mind and allows me to think and act in a focused, unhurried manner.
After meditating this morning, I recalled a passage from the pali canon. It was best described by Andrew Cooper, in Tricycle magazine, who wrote about it, in a lecture given by Thich Nhat Hanh. "A well known passage from the Pali canon:
When this is, that is
This arising, that arises
When this is not,that is not
This ceasing.that ceases.
This is the most succinct formulation of the Buddhist teaching of paticcasamuppada or "dependent origination", one of Buddhism's core ideas. All beings support and are in turn supported by all other beings. This elaboration of paticcasamuppada encompassed the foundation, the practice and the fulfillment of spiritual life.'
I'm looking forward to sharing my journey with you. ~Namaste.~
One of the best parts about meditation that it is free, acccesible anywhere, and I don't have to change into special clothes to do it. Once I've reached a level of focus, which I like to call "the zone", I have such a sense of calm that is unachieveable anywhere else. Meditation calms and focuses my mind and allows me to think and act in a focused, unhurried manner.
After meditating this morning, I recalled a passage from the pali canon. It was best described by Andrew Cooper, in Tricycle magazine, who wrote about it, in a lecture given by Thich Nhat Hanh. "A well known passage from the Pali canon:
When this is, that is
This arising, that arises
When this is not,that is not
This ceasing.that ceases.
This is the most succinct formulation of the Buddhist teaching of paticcasamuppada or "dependent origination", one of Buddhism's core ideas. All beings support and are in turn supported by all other beings. This elaboration of paticcasamuppada encompassed the foundation, the practice and the fulfillment of spiritual life.'
I'm looking forward to sharing my journey with you. ~Namaste.~
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