Reciting Mantras

[ChunChu]

It is said to blelieve reciting these repetitions can prevent and cure and any illness and diesease if you recite this everyday with true sincerity.

Morning, noon, after noon and evening for a full 5 times of chanting each of these segment times.

Chant: NAMO RATNA TRAYAYA / NAMO ARYA JNANA SAGARA, VAIROCHANA / BYUHARA JARA TATHAGATAYA / ARAHATE SAMYAKSAM BUDDHAYA / NAMO SARWA TATHAGATE BHYAY ARHATA BHYAH / SAMVAKSAM BUDDHE BHVAH / NAMO AVALOKITE / SHORAYA BODHISATTVAYA / MAHA SATTVAYA / MAHA KARUNIKAYA / TADYATA / OM DARA DARA / DIRI DIRI / DURU DURU / ITTE WE / ITTE CHALE CHALE / PURACHALE PURACHALE KUSUME KUSUMA WA RE / ILI MILLI CHITI JVALAM / APANAVE SHOHA

[cleef]

The mind is a powerful thing!

Do you believe these words hold some form of spiritual power or is it like a placebo effect?

[Kian]

Indeed it is, I was hoping to get into doing some type of spiritual chanting, will have to give it a go fervently

[ChunChu]

(02-04-2011 01:24 PM)cleef Wrote:  The mind is a powerful thing!

Do you believe these words hold some form of spiritual power or is it like a placebo effect?

I have to say it's both because I have experience this , my dad's friend is a healer and is very deep into Buddhism , he cured my swollen lymph node with some chants which I'm pretty sure were mantras to the medicine Buddha ,and he chewed on some leaves and spitted on my lymph node
and it wasn't swollen anymore and I had a fever at that time and it was gone.

(02-04-2011 04:17 PM)Kianian Wrote:  Indeed it is, I was hoping to get into doing some type of spiritual chanting, will have to give it a go fervently

Nice but stuff like this takes utmost discipline I'm pretty sure meditation should also be involved . When reciting these repetitions there usually reciting to a Buddha or to people that has become Buddha. But stuff like this takes years to come .

[Kian]

Well I understand that but, I was meaning self-betterment not some kind of religious enlightenment chanting lol The mind is limitless in power

[Djoser]

Hmmm..might have to get into mantras soon then. I've always had an interest in the various breathing techniques over in the East.

[Rev]

this is pretty interesting chun

[ChunChu]

(02-04-2011 08:53 PM)Kianian Wrote:  Well I understand that but, I was meaning self-betterment not some kind of religious enlightenment chanting lol The mind is limitless in power

it doesn't necessarily involve religion it involves spirituality.
Body , mind , spirit. Religion is propaganda agenda we all know that.
Buddhism is about enlightenment , clears one's mind. You can also become a buddha but I don't know much about that.

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(02-04-2011 10:56 PM)Djoser Wrote:  Hmmm..might have to get into mantras soon then. I've always had an interest in the various breathing techniques over in the East.

Tai chi? I don't know much about it though.

[Djoser]

Something like Tai Chi and I have taken Tai Chi before. It's pretty relaxing. The moves are helpful when applied in combat.

[ChunChu]

Isn't tai chi like going with the flow? I remember watching a jet li movie where he does tai chai..
feel the earth, and life forms and all of that?

[Djoser]

Yeah, but at the school where I was taking Wu-shu, we used it more as meditation. Most of the time, we did meditation by sitting in silence(only helped somewhat for me).

But yeah, you go with the flow. Every part of your movement flows continuously nonstop. Never stopping.

Even though I like Jet Li, I really wouldn't use a movie as a reference to a meditation technique or specific martial art. It's best to go to a dojo/school and learn from masters.

[Kian]

LOL not that I'm planning to become a bhudda or anything but it is something of interest to me, the sufi branch of Islam do a kind of spiritual chanting too.