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Meditating on mantric seed syllables on the center of each chakra; Tsongkhapa states: "one should concentrate on the syllables of the upper three chakras for just a short period of time, and then dedicate most of the session to meditating on the Ah-stroke at the navel chakra."
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
Gayatri mantra, called Gayatri Chandas in Sanskrit, is twenty-four syllables comprising three lines (Sk. padas, literally "feet") of eight syllables each. The Gayatri mantra as received is short one syllable in the first line: tat sa vi tur va reṇ yaṃ. Being only twenty-three syllables the Gayatri mantra is Nichruth Gayatri Chandas ...
Jnanarnava. Jnanarnava (Sanskrit: ज्ञानार्णव, IAST: Jñānārṇāva, meaning 'Ocean of Wisdom on Meditation') is an important Jain text in Sanskrit on various topics useful to the mendicant but focuses primarily on meditation. Another name for this text is Yogapradipadhikara meaning, the Book that Illuminates Meditation.
An 18th century Mongolian miniature which depicts a monk generating a tantric visualization A Japanese depiction of the Amida Triad in Seed Syllable form (Siddham Script). Visualizing deities in the form of seed syllables is a common Vajrayana meditation. In Shingon, one of the most common practices is Ajikan (阿字觀), meditating on the ...
Vavilikolanu Subba Rao or Andhra Valmiki or Vaasu Daasa Swami (23 January 1863 – 1 August 1939) was a Sanskrit scholar and a Telugu poet, often known by the epithet Andhra Valmiki. He was first Telugu scholar to translate Sanskrit version of Valmiki Ramayana into Telugu. [1][2] His translation of Sanskrit version of Valmiki Ramayana into ...
In the Dzogchen traditions of Nyingma and Bon, the seed syllable A is widely used symbolically and as a mantric syllable in various meditations (such as in the Dzogchen semdzins, "fixing the mind" and guru yoga practice). In Dzogchen, the letter A typically signifies the primordial state or basis (gzhi). See also. A-un
Practices such as different forms of breath meditation (breath counting, diaphragmatic breathing and tanden, breath cultivation), kōan introspection, wato, and mantra practice (such as using the mantric syllable Ah) are used in zazen. [26] [web 5] [web 6] Other practices include walking meditation (Jp.