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Explanation of Six Syllables
Closing the doors to the six realms, free sentient beings from sufferings and to be reborn in Buddhas Pure Land.
OM closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the gods realm. The suffering of the gods arises from foreseeing ones fall from the gods realm.
This suffering comes from pride.
MA closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the warring gods (asuras) realm. The suffering of these asuras is constant fighting.
This suffering comes from jealousy.
NI closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the human realm. The suffering of humans is birth, sickness, old age, and death.
This suffering comes from desire.
PAD closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the animal realm. The suffering of animals is stupidity, preying upon one another, being killed by men for meat, skin, et. And being beasts o burden.
This suffering comes from ignorance.
ME closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the hungry ghosts realm. The suffering of hungry ghosts is hunger and thirst.
This suffering comes from greed.
HUM closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the hell realm. The suffering of the hell is heat and cold.
This suffering comes from anger or hatred
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Why recite Om Mani Padme Hum?
A Buddha capable of extraordinary feats beyond the capacity of any other being, such as stating exactly how many drops of rain would fall during a rainstorm lasting twelve years, would not be able to fully describe the merit generated by a single recitation of the Mani. . extracted from Mani Kabum
By reciting one hundred million Manis, all the myriad living organisms in your body will be blessed by Avalokiteshvara ( Guanyin ), and when you die even the smoke from the cremation of your corpse will have the power to protect whoever inhales it from rebirth in the lower realms . Karandaryuha Sutra
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Originally posted by PowerPowerGer:
To share with all ......
[b]Explanation of Six Syllables
Closing the doors to the six realms, free sentient beings from sufferings and to be reborn in Buddhas Pure Land.
OM closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the gods realm. The suffering of the gods arises from foreseeing ones fall from the gods realm.
This suffering comes from pride.
MA closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the warring gods (asuras) realm. The suffering of these asuras is constant fighting.
This suffering comes from jealousy.
NI closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the human realm. The suffering of humans is birth, sickness, old age, and death.
This suffering comes from desire.
PAD closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the animal realm. The suffering of animals is stupidity, preying upon one another, being killed by men for meat, skin, et. And being beasts o burden.
This suffering comes from ignorance.
ME closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the hungry ghosts realm. The suffering of hungry ghosts is hunger and thirst.
This suffering comes from greed.
HUM closes the door to the suffering of being reborn in the hell realm. The suffering of the hell is heat and cold.
This suffering comes from anger or hatred
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Why recite Om Mani Padme Hum?
A Buddha capable of extraordinary feats beyond the capacity of any other being, such as stating exactly how many drops of rain would fall during a rainstorm lasting twelve years, would not be able to fully describe the merit generated by a single recitation of the Mani. . extracted from Mani Kabum
By reciting one hundred million Manis, all the myriad living organisms in your body will be blessed by Avalokiteshvara ( Guanyin ), and when you die even the smoke from the cremation of your corpse will have the power to protect whoever inhales it from rebirth in the lower realms . Karandaryuha Sutra
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[/b]wee u wee! thats a good 1.. thanks for providing the infor...
so next time when i org OM Ma Ni pad me Hum chanting session again, u must turn up ok...
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Tibetan prayer wheels (called Mani wheels by the Tibetans) are devices for spreading spiritual blessings and well being. Rolls of thin paper, imprinted with many, many copies of the mantra (prayer) Om Mani Padme Hum, printed in an ancient Indian script or in Tibetan script, are wound around an axle in a protective container, and spun around and around. Typically, larger decorative versions of the syllables of the mantra are also carved on the outside cover of the wheel.
Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying this mantra, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion.
Viewing a written copy of the mantra is said to have the same effect -- and the mantra is carved into stones left in piles near paths where travelers will see them. Spinning the written form of the mantra around in a Mani wheel is also supposed to have the same effect; the more copies of the mantra, the more the benefit.
a mani stone
Traditionally wheels were not used at all in Tibet except for spiritual purposes -- carts and similar wheeled devices were known from other cultures, but their use was intentionally avoided. The earliest known mention of prayer wheels is in an account written by a Chinese pilgrim, in 400 AD, while traveling through the area now known as Ladakh. The idea is said to have originated as a play on the phrase "turn the wheel of the dharma," a classical metaphor for Buddha's teaching activity.
Mani wheels are found all over Tibet and in areas influenced by Tibetan culture. There are many types of Mani wheels, but small hand-held wheels, like the one shown here, are the most common by far. Tibetan people carry them around for hours, and even on long pilgrimages, spinning them any time they have a hand free.
Larger wheels, which may be several yards (meters) high and one or two yards (meters) in diameter, can contain myriad copies of the mantra, and may also contain sacred texts, up to hundreds of volumes.
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has said that having the mantra on your computer works the same as a traditional Mani wheel. As the digital image spins around on your hard drive, it sends the peaceful prayer of compassion to all directions and purifies the area.
Animated images like this one are digital Mani wheels which can be placed on Web pages. Similar animated graphics can be used for Mani-wheel screen savers
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A short teaching by Lama Zopa, Rinpoche:
The Benefits of Prayer Wheels
"Just touching and turning a prayer wheel brings incredible purification and accumulates unbelievable merit."
"One idea I have is to use them for healing. Anyone with a disease such as AIDS or cancer, whether or not they have any understanding of Dharma, can use the prayer wheel for meditation and healing."
source from www.dharma-haven.org
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Originally posted by zacken99:huh? UK?
ya
in
England, when i google it, i found this temple,Buddhapadipada Thai
Temple
http://www.buddhapadipa.org/pages/temple.html,Edited by zacken99 20 Mar `07, 12:58AM
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In the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon of enlightened
beings, Chenrezig is renowned as the embodiment of the compassion
of all the Buddhas, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
Avalokiteshvara is the earthly manifestation of the self born, eternal Buddha, Amitabha. He guards this world in the interval between the historical Sakyamuni Buddha, and the next Buddha of the Future Maitreya.
According to legend, Chenrezig made a a vow that he would not rest until he had liberated all the beings in all the realms of suffering. After working diligently at this task for a very long time, he looked out and realized the immense number of miserable beings yet to be saved. Seeing this, he became despondent and his head split into thousands of pieces. Amitabha Buddha put the pieces back together as a body with very many arms and many heads, so that Chenrezig could work with myriad beings all at the same time. Sometimes Chenrezig is visualized with eleven heads, and a thousand arms fanned out around him.
Chenrezig may be the most popular of all Buddhist deities, except for Buddha himself -- he is beloved throughout the Buddhist world. He is known by different names in different lands: as Avalokiteshvara in the ancient Sanskrit language of India, as Kuan-yin in China, as Kannon in Japan.
As Chenrezig, he is considered the patron Bodhisattva of Tibet, and his meditation is practiced in all the great lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. The beloved king Songtsen Gampo was believed to be an emanation of Chenrezig, and some of the most respected meditation masters (lamas), like the Dalai Lamas and Karmapas, who are considered living Buddhas, are also believed to be emanations of Chenrezig.
Whenever we are compassionate, or feel love for anyone, or for an animal or some part of the natural world, we experience a taste of our own natural connection with Chenrezig. Although we may not be as consistently compassionate as some of the great meditation masters, Tibetan Buddhists believe that we all share, in our basic nature, unconditional compassion and wisdom that is no different from what we see in Chenrezig and in these lamas.
We might have trouble believing that we are no different than Chenrezig -- but learning about the nature of compassion, and learning about Chenrezig, repeating his mantra Om Mani Padme Hum and imagining that we would like to be like Chenrezig, pretending that we really are just like Chenrezig, we actually can become aware of increasing compassion in our lives, and ultimately, the lamas tell us, awaken as completely wise and compassionate buddhas.
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Originally posted by kid_kid:ya in
England, when i google it, i found this temple,Buddhapadipada Thai
Temple
http://www.buddhapadipa.org/pages/temple.html,nice temple.. i think u can pay it a visit...
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In Solu Kumbu all the old men and women turn prayer wheels every day. When they are at home in the morning and in the evening before they go to bed, they hold a mala in their left hand, a prayer wheel in their right, and recite OM MANI PADME HUNG. And when they walk around, they constantly turn the prayer wheel and recite OM MANI PADME HUNG.
I often used to think, "How does turning of the prayer wheel become Dharma practice?" I had this question in my mind, simply because I was ignorant as to the benefits of the practice. I didn't know what an important practice it is and how beneficial it is in terms of purification. Just touching and turning a prayer wheel brings incredible purification and accumulates unbelievable merit.
At Lawudo I found many old manuscripts, handwritten texts by the Lawudo Lama. The previous Lawudo Lama was called Lama (Kunsang) Yeshe and some people think he has something to do with my life. The Lawudo Lama did not have a monastery, but lived in retreat in a cave. He put a lot of effort into copying texts of the practices of various Vajrayana deities. At that time such texts were very rare, so he wrote many out by hand. Because they had been stored in the cave which was very humid, the texts were damp, and I used to dry them in the sun. If you don't dry them, the texts grow fungus and are then destroyed by worms. The worms reincarnate among the texts and make some interesting holes in them.
One day when I was laying the texts out in the sun, I saw one old text with the title "Mani Kabum." It contains all the history of the evolution of the world, including how Dharma came into this world and how the sentient beings of Tibet, the Snow Land, became the particular objects to be subdued by the Compassion Buddha Avalokiteshvara. Amitabha and the Compassion Buddha are the same in essence and are very strongly linked. And for more than twenty years, the Compassion Buddha and Amitabha have guided not only Tibet and China, but also Western countries, especially by spreading Dharma.
In Mani Kabum I saw a short explanation of the lineage of the prayer wheel practice and a few lines on how to visualize and meditate when you do the practice. In Tibet, and generally wherever there are the Mahayana teachings of Vajrayana, the practice of the prayer wheel has spread. Nagarjuna gave the practice to Lion-faced Dakini, who gave it to Padmasambhava, who then brought it to Tibet. After reading this, I developed faith that the practice was not nonsense, but had valid references and was valuable and meaningful. From this text, I got some idea of how powerful the prayer wheel practice is in purifying the mind and in accumulating extensive merits.
In 1987, when I was at Chenrezig Institute in Australia, I noticed that the place had become incredibly peaceful. It felt so serene that you wanted to be there, to live there. Chenrezig Institute had not been like that before, and I wondered why it had changed. At that time, Geshe Lama Konchog was there. Geshe-la has done a lot of Dharma practice. After he escaped from Tibet, he spent many years in retreat in Milarepa's caves in the Himalayas. He did 2000 Nyung-nays, the intensive two-day retreat on the Compassion Buddha, that involves taking the eight Mahayana Precepts and doing many prostrations and mantras. Geshe Lama Konchog has trained his mind well in the path, so I thought that the serenity of Chenrezig Institute might be due to his Bodhicitta. However, one day near the end of my stay there, the thought came into my mind, "Oh, the change might be due to the prayer wheel -- it wasn't there before." The prayer wheel is much smaller than the one here at Land of Medicine Buddha, but it also contains many mantras on microfilm and is very nicely made.
Some time later, when I was in Brazil at the invitation of a meditation center there, a student gave me a book written by one of Tarthang Tulku's senior disciples about his experiences when he was in charge of building stupas and prayer wheels in Tarthang Tulku's centers. In one section he mentioned that after a prayer wheel was built, the area was completely transformed, becoming so peaceful, pleasant, and conducive to the mind. This confirmed my belief, based on my own reasoning, that Chenrezig Institute had become so peaceful because of its new prayer wheel. Learning about somebody else experiencing a similar effect from building a prayer wheel helped to stabilize my faith.
source from http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/benefits-of-prayer-wheels.html
Edited by zacken99 20 Mar `07, 1:03AM
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Om Mani Padme Hum
Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hum, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of Avalokiteshvara, the embodiment of compassion.
Viewing the written form of the mantra is said to have the same effect - it is often carved into stones and placed where people can see them.
Spinning the written form of the mantra around in a Mani wheel (or prayer wheel) is also believed to give the same benefit as saying the mantra, and Mani wheels, small hand wheels and large wheels with millions of copies of the mantra inside, are found everywhere in the lands influenced by Tibetan Buddhism.
It is said that all the teachings of the Buddha are contained in this mantra: Om Mani Padme Hum can not really be translated into a simple phrase or sentence.
The mantra originated in India; as it moved from India into Tibet, the pronunciation changed because some of the sounds in the Indian Sanskrit language were hard for Tibetans to pronounce.
Sanskrit form Om Mani Padma Hum Mantra of Avalokiteshvara
Tibetan form Om Mani Peme Hung Mantra of Chenrezig
The mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is found written in two different ways in (and on) Mani wheels and on jewelry, etc.: in the ancient Indian Ranjana script and in Tibetan script:
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Om Mani Padme Hum
( Jewel of Enlightenment is in the Heart Lotus )
Om Mani Padme Hum
Think:
May all beings have happiness and the cause
of happiness, which is virtue.
Om Mani Padme Hum
Pray:
May all beings remain free from suffering and the causes of suffering, which are non virtue and delusion.
Om Mani Padme Hum
Wish:
May all beings remain unseparated from the sacred
joy and happiness, that is totally free from sorrow.
Om Mani Padme Hum
Pray:
May all beings come to rest in the boundless, all-inclusive equanimity, beyond attachment and aversion.
Om Mani Padme Hum
Affirm:
May all beings be happy, content, and fulfilled.
Om Mani Padme Hum
May all be peaceful, in harmony, and at ease.
Om Mani Padme Hum
May all be protected from harm, fear, and danger.
Om Mani Padme Hum
May all have whatever they want, need, and aspire to.
Om Mani Padme Hum
May all be healed and whole again.
Om Mani Padme Hum
May this planet be healed and whole again.
Om Mani Padme Hum
May all beings awaken from their sleep of illusions and be liberated, enlightened, and free.
Om Mani Padme Hum
May all realize their true spiritual nature and thus awaken the Buddha within.
Om Mani Padme Hum
May all equally enjoy, actualize, and embody the innate Great Perfection.
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om Mani Padme Hum
source from http://www.teachingsofthebuddha.com/om_mani_padme_hum.htm
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in buddhism teaching we believe life never stop....from birth till death, but after 1 live is end, a new live is produce ( recarnation)..
from 1 life to another life, we are not able to bring along our wealth,food or any physical luxuary that we own..but we can only bring along our karma be is good or bad..........
the saying goes " wan4 ban1 dai4 bu4 zhou3, zhi 3 you3 ye4 shui2 sheng1"
i believe most of us do not know what were we in our previous life, but u will definitely know whether or not u bring along good or bad karma...
?? u may wonder hw would we know???
yes! u will know , beocos if this life u r hving very happy life and everything smooth smooth, ofcos u hv accumulate lots of good karma, but if this life ur luck are always dwn ,u r hving sickness like cancer etc etc,and ur family member, eg ur parents,spouses or siblings are all not close to u or are always giving u problem...well u should know that u must hv acculate lots of bad karma previously...
as the saying goes.." ruo4 yao4 zhi1 qian2 shi4 yin1, zhi4 xu1 kan4 jing1 shi4 guo3"
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Originally posted by zacken99:i will try to gather more ppl..
more ppl join in ,the gan ying will be better and easier to clock the times...
yup yup ...
'clock' times ... sounds like .... WORK ! OverTime !
Lolx ...
But i agree, the more the merrier ..
in fact after that day, now I chant (silently) whenever im free ....
when I wake up, b4 I sleep ... on the bus ... haha ....
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