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quinta-feira, 12 de janeiro de 2012
Meditation for Word Power
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POSTURE & MUDRA: Sit in Easy Pose with erect spine. Hands are in Gyan Mudra over knees or relaxed in lap, the right hand resting in left with both palms up.
MANTRA: There is no mantra for this meditation although you may want to play the Tantric Har recording for rhythmic support.
BREATH: Inhale deeply, exhale and hold the breath out as long as comfortable.
Then inhale deeply and immediately exhale again. Continue this breath pattern for 11 minutes as you do the following: As you hold the breath out, regularly pulse the Navel Point and the tip of the tongue together. Pull in the Navel Point and lift the tongue to strike the top of the mouth at the same time. The tongue must snap up as the navel snaps inward. It is a small precise movement. The mouth may be closed or relaxed and slightly open. You can silently imagine the Har sounds.
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vajrasattva mantra
This is the pronunciation I like most.
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Vajrasattva Hundred Syllable Mantra
OM VAJRA SATTVA SAMAYA MANU PALAYA VAJRA SATTVA TÉNOPA TIT’HRA DRIDHO
MÉBHAWA SU TO KHAYO MÉBHAWA SU PO KHAYO MÉBHAWA ANU RAKTO MÉBHAWA
SARWA SIDDHI MÉ PRA YATSA SARWA KARMA SU TSA MÉ TSITTANG SHRÉ YANG KURU
HUNG HA HA HA HA HO BHAGAWAN SARWA TAT’HAGATA VAJRA MA MÉ MUNTSA VAJRI
BHAWA MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH
OM VAJRA SATTVA HUNG
100 Syllables (with text)
Vajrasattva's name (Tib. dorje sempa) means "diamond being." He represents the innate purity of the mind.
You can imagine your mind as being like a sky through which clouds pass. The clouds come and they go, but the sky remains untouched. The sky is inherently blue and clear, and although its blueness and clarity can be obscured it can never be destroyed. The clouds are like the greed, hatred, and delusion that pollute the mind. Because of the transient nature of these mental states, they cannot be said to be an inherent part of the mind. They may obscure the mind's inherent awareness and compassion, but those qualities are never absent.
Vessantara, in Meeting the Buddhas, suggests that in the first line ("Oṃ Vajrasattva! Preserve the bond!") we are acknowledging our alienation from our true nature by calling upon Vajrasattva to preserve the bond, or samaya, whereby we do the Vajrasattva invocation regularly and Vajrasattva for his part responds by bestowing upon us the fruits of the practice. This "bond" represents a mutual commitment on the part of the practitioner and Vajrasattva. In psycho-spiritual terms, if you strive to realize your own innate purity, your innate purity will strive to manifest itself from the depths of the unconscious.
We then ("As Vajrasattva stand before me") call upon Vajrasattva as a spiritual friend (kalyanamitra), to manifest in our meditation and in our lives.
We entreat Vajrasattva ("Be firm for me") to be with us constantly. We are endeavoring to constantly come back to recognizing the mind's true nature.
"Be greatly pleased for me. Deeply nourish me. Love me passionately." Vajrasattva becomes more like an intimate friend or even a lover, and is no longer just a protector. He's someone who knows us deeply and cares passionately for us. He is our own deepest nature, so at this stage in the mantra we're experiencing a reunion with ourselves. In the words of the poet Derek Walcott, "You will love again the stranger who was your self."
"Grant me siddhi in all things, And in all actions make my mind most excellent." We now embody the qualities of Vajrasattva himself, and so to some extent we have become him. Siddhi is a Sanskrit word that literally means "perfection," "accomplishment," "attainment," or "success," and it refers to spiritual power attained through practice.
"Ha ha ha ha ho!" This is the joyful sound of liberation. These five syllables are also said to represent the five Buddha families, which are all emanations of Vajrasattva.
"Blessed One! Vajra of all the Tathāgatas! Do not abandon me." Having experienced the innate purity of the mind, we aspire always to stay in touch with it. The "Tathāgatas" are the Buddhas, and the "Vajra of all the Tathāgatas" is the innately pure nature of the Awakened mind.
"Be the Vajra-bearer, Being of the Great Bond!" This suggests that we are imploring Vajrasattva to be means for and path to Enlightenment for all beings. He is the vajra-bearer (the representation of Awakening" for all sentient beings.
According to Vessantara, the syllable "hūṃ" is added to the mantra when someone has died, and the syllable "phaṭ" is added in order to subdue demons. Without the hūṃ and the phat the mantra has exatly 100 syllables.
Singh Kaur- Rakhe Rakhanhar
Clearing the Ghosts and Opening Intuition
Wake up in the morning to the sound of the mantra Rakhe Rakhanahaar. Repeat with a tough tongue for a few minutes. Watch that day. Observe what happens.
Yogi Bhajan • Decembver 5, 1988
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