OM MANI PADME HUM MANTRA:THE MEANING OF MANTRA
“The jewel is in the lotus or praise to the jewel in the lotus”
Om Mani Padme Hum" first known description of the mantra .It was stated inside the sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha said, "This is the most beneficial mantra, to eliminate all the suffering from body, mind and soul become conscious and integrated.
Gen Rinpoche, in his commentary on the Meaning of said:
"The mantra Om Mani Pädme Hum is easy to say yet quite powerful, because it contains the essence of the entire teaching.
HOW TO RECITE MANTRA
Silently repeating a mantra as you meditate is a powerful way to enter the silence of the mind.
As you repeat the mantra, it creates a mental vibration that allows the mind to experience deeper levels of awareness.
As you meditate, the mantra becomes increasingly abstract and indistinct, until you’re finally led into the field of pure consciousness from which the vibration arose.
It is very good to mantra.
While you are reciting you should be thinking on its meaning.
It has six syllables.
The meaning of the six syllables is great and vast.
OM , is composed of three pure letters, A, U, and M.
These symbolize the practitioner’s impure body, speech, and mind.
PADME, meaning lotus, symbolize wisdom.
ABOUT LOTUS
Lotus grows from mud but is not the mud, A person can be very ordinary, when he recognize is inner Jewel he is not the part of crowd, he become like a lotus flower.
In this world, from this world but not from this world. Something different than ordinary , something extra ordinary is happening through him because of the inner Jewel.
A person come to know his inner jewel, become pure, loving, kindness and compassionate.
All the love and wisdom flows through him through his gesture, through voice, through talking, through walking.
He become living example of love and light on the earth.
HUM represents the consciousness.
A person who is love and light, is become pure consciousness, pure love, pure emptiness, pure silence from inside. This state of consciousness is unaffected by any outer circumstances.
Thus OM MANI PADME HUM, meaning is transforming the impure body, mind and soul by inner Jewel (Mani) become like lotus and disappear in to vast ocean on consciousness.
Each person is capable of being Buddha, each person having seed of wisdom in him or her.It is said that you should not seek for Buddhahood outside of yourself; the substances for the
achievement of Buddhahood are within your self.
HOW TO USE MANTRA MEDITATION
Silently repeating a mantra as you meditate is a powerful way to enter the silence of the mind.
As you repeat the mantra, it creates a mental vibration that allows the mind to experience deeper levels of awareness.
As you meditate, the mantra becomes increasingly abstract and indistinct, until you’re finally led into the field of pure consciousness from which the vibration arose.
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