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mantra meditation


Mantras are words or phrases that can be used in two ways: they sing aloud or reproduce internally as objects of meditation. Often these mantras
relate to any particular Buddhist figure whose qualities can be grown by repeating the mantra
appropriate.

Meditation with mantras predates the rise of Buddhism, probably predates by several centuries. That's why
can be calculated that origin of mantras goes back at least to the Vedic tradition that preceded the Buddha, in which the mantras used in different ways in multiple ceremonies, or so ordering it, invoking gods.

Throughout history, cultures have believed in the sacred power of words and have imagined that the pronunciation of certain words or names could control the external world or the unseen powers, like the gods or spirits, which were believed acting upon the world, and decided the fate of each.
can see it in words like "love", which derives from the verb sing and referred to spell that one person exercises over another by using rhythmical pronunciation of certain sounds.
In English, the word "spell" means "spell", ie speak or write letters and syllables
separately, in a clear and correct. However, "spell" also means "charm", or use magic words to dominate others.

The words "grammar" and "glamor" have the same original meaning. Gramma-techne was the Greek word that referred to science or art
letters. Happened to our language as "grammar" and the English came as "grammar" but, for example, the Scots came as
"glammer" which means "charm."
However, in the rest of Great Britain, the word glammer spent as glamorous and acquired meanings
more linked to romance and contemporary aesthetics. Thus contain fossilized languages \u200b\u200bthat give us an idea of \u200b\u200bhow
that words can have magical powers.

This is especially so with those words which we call "names." As can be seen, if you pay good attention, that everything is intertwined itself, all save a meaning in common, though transgiversado in different ways, in time, language and civilizations.

In ancient India it was believed that if one knew the true names of the gods could call them and force them to fulfill their wishes.
And given some name-related activities, which even today is practiced in small rituals that may seem innocent bear great significance, it seems that most of us still retain some of that belief in the special nature of names, and is in the cremation of a piece of paper with the name of someone who has done something wrong, or the union of two names inside a heart more sentimental pretensions.

Although in the beginning, the songs used Buddhism as a practice mode and used the recitation of verses as a way to cultivate mindfulness in the qualities of the Buddha (Buddhanusati) seems that the use of mantras in Buddhism did not appear until the Mahayana traditions emerged, which incorporated elements of non-Buddhist spiritual practice known as "Tantra."
Tantra mantras widely used to communicate with the gods and to influence them and the methodology adopted Buddhism as a way to get in touch with the qualities of enlightenment, practice that was evolved to the Actulamente.
The Mahayana had already developed a pantheon of symbolic figures in human form, representing the diversity of the enlightened state. Given their close contact with the Tantric traditions, it was natural that these Buddhas and Bodhisattvas archetypal come to be associated with certain syllables and mantras in particular.