Easy Meditation Lessons by William Bodri & Shu-Mei Lee

Author:William Bodri & Shu-Mei Lee [Bodri, William]
Language: eng
Format: azw, mobi
Published: 2013-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

The mantra I most often recommend for recitation is the Zhunti mantra, which runs as follows: “Namo saptanam samyaksambuddha kotinam tadyatha om cale cule cundhi svaha.” This mantra is said to help calm your mind, change your fortune so you can achieve whatever you want, and help open up your energy channels so that you can attain all the blessings meditation can possibly bring.

To practice any mantra you simply recite the phrase over and over again, and while doing so you should just listen to the sounds, while ignoring everything else. This act of concentration will then tie up all your wandering thoughts. When you find your mind straying while reciting mantras, just bring the focus of your mind back to listening to the mantra sounds once again. That’s all you have to do. The practice is as simple as that.

By listening to the sounds of the mantra you will tie up your thinking consciousness, and then the wandering thoughts inside your mind will die down so that you eventually experience a peaceful inner state of mind. As you recite a mantra your breathing will become more rhythmical, your breathing will calm down, your respiration will soften, and your mind will become more quiet. You just listen to the sounds you are reciting and your mind, your internal energy (chi), and body will eventually all become unified together so that they move and rest together. If your breathing or mind ever halt during mantra practice, you simply stop and stay in that state of cessation for as long as possible. At that time we say that your mind and chi have become one because both will have reached a stage of “emptiness,” “quiet,” “halting” or “cessation.”

Now you know that the basic purpose of mantra recitation practice is to tie up the wandering mind of your busy consciousness through the practice of listening. You want to use the fact that you are concentrating on listening to a set of sounds to tie up all the other thoughts running around in your head and thereby produce internal peace and quiet. Mantra recitation is just that simple. It is nothing mysterious. By listening to something with concentration, you ignore everything else and thus those thoughts die down. By reciting certain sounds, it also helps change your internal energy flow, which in turn helps your body and mind achieve a higher stage of purity. This is why the mantra you use is important.

Basically, mantra recitation helps you get rid of the excessive internal thought chatter you always hear in your head so that your mind becomes empty, clear and bright. This state of cessation produces an empty mind, as do all meditation practices, and because it seems empty it is also called a “mind of purity.” A “mind of purity” doesn’t mean you are more virtuous, but simply means that there are less thoughts running about because they have emptied out.

You can make mantras far more powerful and effective by matching their natural recitation

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