Download or read book Vajrasattva Meditation written by Yeshe Phuntsok and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk step by step through the stages of this tantric ritual of purification with inspired commentary and forty full-color illustrations. The force of our past actions makes it hard to attain our goals, including success in meditation. And so Buddhism has developed methods for purifying our past, clearing the obstacles to success and fulfillment. One of the most popular methods for karmic housekeeping, one common to all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, is the preparatory practice of visualizing the buddha Vajrasattva and reciting his hundred-syllable mantra. It is considered an essential foundation for the success of spiritual endeavor. The practice of Vajrasattva is often the first experience practitioners have of trying to perform tantric ritual. Combining prayers, visualizations, mantra recitations, and multiple styles of meditation, it can be hard for those who did not grow up in the tradition to know how to proceed. This friendly volume by a young Tibetan lama with many followers in China lays out the practice step by step accompanied by sixty color illustrations.
Download or read book Meditation and Recitation written by Thich Nu Thanh Y and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditate and Recitation are both proven methods that can ease your mind, rejuvenate and purify your body, and banish negative emotions. But it can be difficult to start these practices when you don't know what they entail. Meditation is a practice of calming your thoughts and focusing on just one thing. A mantra is a kind of word or phrase that you repeat repeatedly to enter into a meditative state. The goal of reciting mantras is to clear the mind, have better concentration, and relax. It also includes tips on finding the right mantra that best suits you according to your personality type and emotions. Recitation is the practice of chanting words or phrases to focus the mind, relax and control your breathing. The goal of reciting sutras is to keep the mind focused on something other than yourself. This book guides you through how best to perform Recitation with different purposes in mind, such as developing mindfulness. It explains how Recitation works in conjunction with meditation and mantra to create a harmonious practice that benefits the mind and body. Meditation and Recitation are combined to assist you in practicing to become more focused, develop mindfulness, and be present in the moment. Together they create a powerful tool for greater wellness. When most think about developing self-esteem, they immediately focus on looking better or being better than someone they envy. But there are so many more effective ways to build self-esteem that improve our inner and outer person. By being mindful, present, and aware of whom we are without judging what is inside or outside our bodies, we can become positive role models for ourselves and others. We can demonstrate confidence and compassion in how we treat each other. We can become a light that radiates love, peace, joy, and compassion to the world around us. The first step to self-improvement is awareness. Remember, we are not our thoughts, emotions, habits, or addictions. We can use awareness to change them and become a better version of ourselves rather than becoming a victim to them. To get started, make sure you practice meditation and Recitation with the right mantra for your personality type and emotions. Most importantly, remember that each practice is simply a tool for healing when used correctly, but they all start with awareness. Meditation and Recitation are very effective practices in the self-help movement that provide solutions to old negative thoughts about yourself and others that can bring on sufferings such as jealousy and anger.
Download or read book A Brief Meditation Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha eBook written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and published by FPMT. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and arranged by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, A Brief Meditation-Recitation on Guru Medicine Buddha begins with requests to the Medicine Buddhas and follows with recitation of their holy names; recitation of either—or all of—the long, middle-length, or short Medicine Buddha mantra; and recitation of the mantra of Tathagata Stainless Excellent Gold and other dharani-mantras, extracted from the Fifth Dalai Lama's The Wish-Granting Sovereign: A Ceremony for Worshiping the Seven Sugatas. The practice concludes with prayers, requests, and dedications. Anyone can practice the text, with slight modifications for students without initiations. Rinpoche has consistently taught that Medicine Buddha practice is beneficial for anyone who is dying, sick, injured, or who has already died, and for success in general. 24 pages, 2018 edition.
Download or read book Recitation and Meditation written by and published by AWGP. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing many chants, recitations, and ceremonial texts in print for the first time, "Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book is the quintessential resource and reference book for monastic and lay practitioners in Thich Nhat Hanh's worldwide Sangha. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to celebrate life and practice the art of mindful living.
Download or read book Buddhist Suttas for Recitation written by Bhante Gunaratana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly produced book featuring carefully chosen selections from the Buddha’s teachings for use in recitation and reflection. Buddhist Suttas for Recitation provides everything you need to begin and maintain a practice of contemplative recitation and reflection. These practices will deepen your connection to the Buddha, strengthen your faith in the Path, and nurture your intellectual understanding of the Dhamma. This unique volume includes carefully chosen discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon—presented in inspiring and accessible English with accompanying Pali—that convey the essence of the Dhamma. The introductory material explains the relationship between meditation and devotional practice, offers instructions on setting up a home altar, and gives advice on how to use these texts to enhance your spiritual development.
Download or read book Chanting from the Heart written by and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2002-12-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book is a most valuable resource for anyone interested in liturgy and everyone who just wants to celebrate life and practice the art of mindful living. It contains chants and recitations for daily spiritual practice and for such occasions as blessing a meal, celebrating a wedding, comforting the sick and remembering the deceased. Also included are more than twenty discourses comprising some of the most fundamental teachings of the Buddha and his enlightened students, including the Heart Sutra, The discourse on the Mindfulness of Breathing, the Discourse on Happiness, the Discourse on Taking Refuge in Oneself and the Discourse on Love. Many of the chants include sheet music. An unprecedented collection of traditional and contemporary Buddhist chants, recitations, and ceremonial texts for daily spiritual practice when first published in the Fall of 2000, this new paperback edition was completely revised in Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh's practice center in France. Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book is the quintessential resource and reference book for Buddhist practitioners on any level of experience, and for anyone who wants to celebrate life and practice the art of mindful living.
Download or read book The Meditation Recitation of Black Manjushri eBook written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and published by FPMT. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, translated by Fabrizio Champa Pelgye. The benefits of this text, according to Lama Zopa Rinpoche: “This meditation-recitation averts all spells, cursing spirits, black magic, and curses of the ancient writings. It averts all epidemics and infectious diseases, spirits and interferers, evil demons, and bad astrological charts. It averts [the effects] of the ritual master of the sangha assembly performing wrathful rituals and initiations without first subduing the ground. It averts all types of uncleanliness and pollution from corpses, defilements, masonry work, and the demolishing of old houses. In short, all evils, negative beings, bad business transactions, and so forth—whatever one may think of—is all averted by this meditation-recitation. It also cures internal illnesses, tumors, phlegm diseases, and so forth.” 2019 edition. This practice requires the student to have permission/empowerment received from a qualified master in order to engage in the self-generation of the deity. However, it is permitted to do this practice without such an empowerment as long as you do not generate yourself as the deity. Instead, you should generate the deity at the crown of your head or in front of you instead of self-generation.
Download or read book G yatr the Highest Meditation written by Keshavadas (Satguru Sant) and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highest Meditationdescribes the Gayatri, the mantra which helps the higher man to be born in us all. Sant Keshavadas profoundly tells the meaning and many facets (water rites, sitting posture, time, atmosphere, breath controle, pronunciation of sacred sounds) of this ancient meditation. there are few books available on the Gayatri meditationin English. Professor T.K.Venkateswaran of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Detroit, praises Sant Keshavadas Work and States that if the Gayatri Mantra is understood, repeated, and meditated upon, in the manner in which it is presented in this book, it will illumine the intellect and produce the highest bliss, creativity, and success in the world.
Download or read book The Welfare of Living Beings That Pervades Space The Meditation Recitation of the Great Compassionate One eBook written by Thangtong Gyalpo and published by FPMT. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can do this practice. However, you are permitted to generate yourself as Four-Armed Chenrezig only if you have received the appropriate initiation. Otherwise, you should visualize Four-Armed Chenrezig above your head or in front of you. By Thangtong Gyalpo, translated by Ven. Steve Carlier. This short Four-Armed Chenrezig sadhana was composed by Thangtong Gyalpo (1385–1464), a mahasiddha renowned for his various building projects, including wooden and iron bridges, ferry-crossings, temples, monasteries, and holy objects. 2020 edition.
Download or read book The Law of the Inner Circle written by John C. Maxwell and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John already used time management to the fullest, but he wanted to accomplish more. His priorities were already leveraged to the hilt, and there were no more minutes in a day! How did he go to a new level? He practiced the Law of the Inner Circle.
Download or read book The Recitation for the Meditation of the Great Compassionate One for the Benefit of Beings as Vast as the Skies written by Lama Samten Gyatso and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deity Mantra and Wisdom written by Patrul Rinpoche and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains four of the most cherished Tibetan Buddhist commentaries on the practices of visualization, mantra recitation, and meditative absorption—elements that form the core of development stage meditation, one of the most important practices of Buddhist Tantra. The texts within this volume—Ladder to Akaniṣṭha, Clarifying the Difficult Points in the Development Stage, The Four Stakes That Bind the Life-Force, and Husks of Unity—are among the most widely studied commentaries on this topic and have formed the basis for spiritual study and practice for centuries. In these eloquent and inspiring translations, Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche, and Getse Mahāpaṇḍita explain the fundamental philosophy of the development stage, illuminating its profound insights into the nature of reality and how to utilize these insights through the practice of meditation.
Download or read book The Direct Step By Step Recitation which Accomplishes the Wisdom Mind of Vajrasattva written by Dorje Sherob and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vajrasattva Buddha (Dorje Sem in Tibetan), is the Buddha of purification. This text contains the Vajrasattva practice, including outer inner and very concise practices and prayers. A dual language (Tibetan and English) edition with phonetic Tibetan pronunciation, it is intended for use by English-speaking sanghas (spiritual communities), teachers and individual practitioners. The Vajrasattva practice is associated with all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Anyone can read and recite these texts. To study them, one must have a qualified teacher.
Download or read book Evolving Beyond Thought Updating Your Brain s Software written by Gary Weber and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seemingly insoluble problems of our species at the current time is our inability to successfully cope with the complexities of our massively-complex, highly-integrated society using our outdated software programs created when we were hunter-gatherers. This book outlines the problem areas with our current software, how to address them, demonstrates tools to facilitate this change and then gives a demonstration of how the process unfolds in a dialogue with a successful practitioner of the process and its improved software.The first section of the book focuses on a systematic approach to working directly on the problems with the current operating system (OS) and its programs. The process begins by removing our current, outdated OS "I" (focused on the "I") and evaluating the success of the removal. An updated OS "mini-me" (less focused on the "I") is then installed from several trusted and reliable sources. Next, the most problematic programs are removed or significantly modified. The second section provides a powerful tool to support this process, seemingly exactly tailored to it, the Ribhu Gita. Sections devoted to "Am 'I' these thoughts?", "What is this mind?", "Am 'I' this body?", "What problems arise from this belief (that 'I' am this body)?", "What am 'I'?" and then "What are the benefits of this knowledge of the Self?". This text was a/the favorite of my main teacher, Ramana Maharshi, and aligns perfectly with his "direct path" of self-inquiry for nondual awakening. It is powerful to read and to chant.The third section demonstrates that this self-inquiry and letting-go-of-attachments process works in the "real" world with a "real" job. Through dialogue with someone going through the process over a significant length of time it shows how the process actually unfolds. The fourth section focuses on the most problematic, strongly-held, and tenacious of the programs in the current OS "I", the issues of "free will", control and predetermination. This is the stronghold of the egoic/I structure. Selected comments, questions and answers from blogposts on the issue address resistances, objections, and problems that arise.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness written by Philip David Zelazo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness is the first of its kind in the field, and its appearance marks a unique time in the history of intellectual inquiry on the topic. After decades during which consciousness was considered beyond the scope of legitimate scientific investigation, consciousness re-emerged as a popular focus of research towards the end of the last century, and it has remained so for nearly 20 years. There are now so many different lines of investigation on consciousness that the time has come when the field may finally benefit from a book that pulls them together and, by juxtaposing them, provides a comprehensive survey of this exciting field. An authoritative desk reference, which will also be suitable as an advanced textbook.
Download or read book Meditations on the Mysteries of the Rosary written by Kenneth R. Wichorek and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many times in reciting the Rosary, it is difficult to meditate on each Mystery during their recitation. These series of Meditations allows a person to meditate privately for about 15 minutes on one of the Mysteries. Also, a person can pick a Mystery to meditate on prior to reciting the entire Rosary. Our Lady of Fatima requested a 15 minute meditation after reciting the Rosary on the First Saturday of each month. This book can provide such a meditation. Congratulation and praise to Kenneth R. Wichorek for his outstanding devotional meditations on the Rosary. These meditations are the inspiring insights of a faithful Catholic layman contemplating and sharing with others, his love for the Virgin Mary and her Rosary. Fr, Anthony M. Patalano, O.P., Pastor, Holy Family Cathedral, Anchorage, Alaska Ken was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He has a Civil Engineering degree from Purdue University and a Master degree in Engineering Management from the University of Alaska. He served two years in the Army where he met his wife Rita. Ken worked for private engineering firms in Ohio and Colorado until 1965. He then worked for the Alaska District Corps of Engineers in Anchorage, Alaska until his retirement in 1991. Ken has worked as a designer, planner, resident Engineer, teacher, baseball coach, project engineer, and supervisor. He has 4 children and 13 grandchildren. Ken coached youth baseball for 15 years and taught catechism for 15 years. He is active in church activities as a Eucharistic minister, reader, and sacristan. He authored two other books, Suffering Christ on the Cross and Our Third Life.
