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Lion
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Working with mantra
#7680840 - 11/26/07 08:01 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Who here works deeply with mantra?
For those of you who do, do you come back to mantra throughout the course of the day, or is it mostly used in meditation?
Do you use more than one mantra?
I have found myself using many mantras, which may detract from the practice, though I've definitely seen different mantras lead me to different mental states.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Lion]
#7681036 - 11/26/07 09:24 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've been using meditation and mantra very casually. If you catch your thoughts drifting at a moment when you need to be focused, rehearsing a small bit of wisdom is so helpful. It starts to become automatic. Come to think of it, I've worked through several over the past month. It started with mu, Fight Club's slide, different personal summations, and small bits of lyric from my favorite songs.
This is what I'm using today:
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Lion]
#7681761 - 11/26/07 12:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I still haven't got meditation down but I always carry around a head full of mantras. I rehearse them and draw lines from them to my experience and in doing so I refine my thoughts and actions and help to organize the mess in my mind.
Bits from lyrics, quotes, the four Toltec agreements, important personal observations - things like these..
-------------------- From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.
Edited by elbisivni (11/26/07 12:58 PM)
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Lion
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: elbisivni]
#7681932 - 11/26/07 01:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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elbisivni said: I still haven't got meditation down but I always carry around a head full of mantras. I rehearse them and draw lines from them to my experience and in doing so I refine my thoughts and actions and help to organize the mess in my mind.
Bits from lyrics, quotes, the four Toltec agreements, important personal observations - things like these..
I do the same sort of things. I often "work with" quotes I have heard from spiritual teachers (including many members of the P&S community) and find them applicable in unexpected contexts. I usually try to focus on breath and inner body awareness if centering is needed. I never meditate using mantra, but chanting OM and singing/reciting (internally or aloud) Hindu and Buddhist mantras has been beneficial.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: vaportrail]
#7681942 - 11/26/07 01:48 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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vaportrail said: I've been using meditation and mantra very casually. If you catch your thoughts drifting at a moment when you need to be focused, rehearsing a small bit of wisdom is so helpful. It starts to become automatic. Come to think of it, I've worked through several over the past month. It started with mu, Fight Club's slide, different personal summations, and small bits of lyric from my favorite songs.
This is what I'm using today:
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
I'm kind of conflicted about this. I had "Strawberry Fields Forever" on replay in my head for awhile, and it did not correspond with positive energy as much as when I have Hindu chants or some such thing going. But then, 'Row your boat' is pretty mellow and I can see how it would be a good pick-up.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Lion]
#7682633 - 11/26/07 04:50 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have always enjoyed the maha mantra. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. I have tried and still use many but that is my favorite.
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Vibrate]
#7682827 - 11/26/07 05:44 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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only one mantra at any time for last 20 years only one altogether, and it is hardly a mantra but it works very well at clearing the field and establishing a connection to sustained awareness.
initially "ha-tha" (ha ta) following the breath then "met-ta" loving kindness meditation on the heart centre then "Karuna" compassion on the throat center. some "samma arahung" something like a kundalini chakkric process and finally insight meditation "lifting moving treading" for walking and "beginning middle end" for breathing and that is the one I return to at moments in the day or night
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Lion]
#7689628 - 11/28/07 09:23 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I used to use one particular mantra from Be Here Now, and it's true that Mantra was eventually doing me. It would drift in and out during the day at work, come on strong when I got home, and even repeat in my sleep.
I haven't used a mantra in a while, but last week I had a dream I was detained in a military jeep and the soldiers where harassing me. For no apparent reason I started singing a Hindi Mantra I've never heard before, and music came in behind it, it was awesome. One of the soldiers looked really annoyed and tried sticking his fingers in my mouth (I don't know why he did that instead of covering it) I pulled my head back and began singing louder and I suddenly became lucid. I was so frustrated at the situation of the dream that I forced myself awake very abruptly. I've never pulled myself out of a dream so quickly and the soldiers strangely screamed as if they were in pain as I did it.
I wish I recorded the melody of the Mantra, I've forgotten it, but I remember the words...
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Middleman]
#7689663 - 11/28/07 09:40 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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One can't go wrong with 'hakuna matata'.
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OrgoneConclusion said: One can't go wrong with 'hakuna matata'.
it has a great ring to it lots of jungle like badabing bada boom! but if I were you I would reccommend "bingo!" it is very satisfying, and you can do it even when you get old and can't remember how to flush with a straight face.
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Lion]
#7692033 - 11/28/07 06:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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OM MANI PADME HUM - The Absolute is a Jewel in the Lotus of the Heart
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GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA! - Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond, Gone Beyond Beyond, Hail the Goer! (BE HERE NOW translation of Heart Sutra Mantra)
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Lion]
#7695437 - 11/29/07 03:59 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Who here works deeply with mantra?
Who is she?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Working with mantra [Re: Icelander]
#7696059 - 11/29/07 06:07 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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hare krishna hare krishna kirshna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
has done well for me lately. also good is the use of the reasoning mind which i have found often disengaged beneath semi-conscious and sub-conscious thought forms which are inane and irrational, persistent little buggers
it is the mantra that is helpful when the CONSCIOUS MIND is devoted itself to being irrational, then it must be quelled into acquiescence and so then, mantra replaces what even your conscious mind knows it shouldn't be doing, but is dwelling on
other times there are just subtle programs, and hitting them with mantra may not be as useful as addressing them with your normal thinking full resources
however, there are no rules
-------------------- I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo! ....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human...... Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!
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