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Fairfax_Uechi
Blue Belt
Joined: 10 Aug 2005
Posts: 325
Location: Fairfax, VA
Styles: Uechi-Ryu
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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Mantras |
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What mantras do you use in meditation? Should one focus on a single mantra, or a lot of different mantras? Do you know of any mantras that are considered self-activating ("incessant prayer")- as in, you repeat it constantly in daily life and it eventually takes hold within and works on it's own?
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My Sensei suggests that we focus on the number 1. He says that you can use anything but to him, it's just something to clear your thoughts and to get into a medative state.
I use it because that's what I learn. I also will sometimes repeat "slow, slow, slow...." as I tend to get wound up.
To me it doesn't matter what you chose as long as it clams you and helps you relax and get into a medative state. |
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Muaythaiboxer
Brown Belt
Joined: 31 Jan 2005
Posts: 683
Location: kansas
Styles: teakwondo judo muaythai boxing wresling kung-fu
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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well as to the question geared tword me i like to switch meditation because i feel it helps me more than just chanting as i used to do. i really enjoyed zazen and i feel it helps clear the mind whail i feel the mantras help me think better thoughts.  i guess its sort of like cross training there is no perfect path to fighting just like there is no flawless path to enlightenment.
as to another post i thank you for correcting my spelling i have been chanting that mantra for a long time and your spelling was closer to what i actually chant.
heres another mantra if your interested (correct my spelling if its wrong)
namu amida butsu - praise to the buddha amida
i dont usually chant this one but i really like the sound
AMITABHA
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Tef
Yellow Belt
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 77
Location: Berknam, Shaolifornia
Styles: Shaolin Kempo, Wu-Tang Sword, Muay Thai, Kechwa MA
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I read that one of the most basic maditation is just to breathe in and out and just count your breaths. Focus on the air going in and out of you and this may seem really "hippie," but feel the essence of the air as it gives you life. By the time I actually get to that stage, i've killed an hour meditating.
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eddy
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| there are the 5 warrior seed syllables you can chant for healing -- A, OM, HUNG, RAM & DZA -- which are associated with chakras of the body and different purposes. for example, the A sound is for clearing emotions and blockages. look up Tibetan Sound Healing by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. he also has a demos on youtube. |
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Derwentbob
Orange Belt
Joined: 24 Mar 2010
Posts: 123
Location: South Yorkshire
Styles: Wado Ryu, Shotokan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:28 am Post subject: |
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I practice Zen which generally doesn't get involved with the esoteric nature of syllables in the same way that Tibetan practitioners do. However there are a few mantras that seem to help.
I practice the Nembutsu (Namu Amida Butsu) daily and sometimes the mantra from the Heart Sutra (gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha). It is important to get some teaching on the meaning of the mantra, as without knowing the meaning you might as well be chanting "beans, beans the musical fruit"! For this reason many teachers I have heard advocate using a short affirming phrase in your own language, such as "I am here, this is now" or "clear mind, clear mind, clear mind...don't know". Some people collect mantras and treat them like magic spells, but in the end they are only words. |
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on the post.
