Comments on: Buddhist Mantras

By: Bodhipaksa

Bodhipaksa — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:18:26 +0000

Someone else might, Genspa, but Tibetan mantras and chants are way outside my sphere of knowledge.

By: Genspa

Genspa — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:14:00 +0000

have been searching for an MP3 version of the Short Mandala Offering “Sa zhi po kyi jug shing me tog tram ……… zhing la cho pa shog” and the Taking Refuge and generating Bodhicitta “Sang guya chho dang ….. gya drub par shog”. Is there somewhere I can locate these two for download?
Thanks

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:12:27 +0000

Dear Sapna,

Try reciting Avalokiteshvara mantra, it would be helpful.

Best to you.

Kelvin

By: Bodhipaksa

Bodhipaksa — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:52:15 +0000

I’m sorry to hear that your father is missing. I don’t think Buddhist mantras work in the way that you’re hoping they do, but they can help to calm your mind and take the edge off of your anxiety. I’d recommend the Avalokiteshvara mantra to relax you. and the Vajrapani mantra for courage.

By: sapna

sapna — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:51:53 +0000

My father is missing from last 7 days. Please help me if is there any mantra which can help me find him back or any news of him? Please I need help…its so painful!

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By: Bodhipaksa

Bodhipaksa — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:09:39 +0000

Hi Chan.

I’m sorry to hear about this. Your sister needs urgent psychiatric help. This isn’t a question about mantras, or how to stop mantras. If someone is imagining that their toaster is sending them messages you don’t go to a toaster repair shop to ask them how to stop the messages. You take the person to a shrink.

I wish you and your sister well. She’s seriously ill, but she can probably be helped, at least a little, with medication and therapy.

By: Chan

Chan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:05:55 +0000

Hello everyone

HI I JUST WANT to ask that is there a way to stop this MANtra? because my sister said that she has a mantra and she’s talking to herself everyday and said that he can talk to people thru her minds and sometimes she cant sleep because of talking to the voices that she hears. pls someone who have a mantra to can explain what happen to my sister because it looks like she is crazy.

pls help me

By: Bodhipaksa

Bodhipaksa — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:14:19 +0000

Hello, Heeral.

Thanks for your kind words. It’s good to know that what we do here is seen and appreciated.

I’m pleased to hear that you have a healing touch. I’d guess that you’re a kind person, and that you express this in your physical contact with your patients.

I’m afraid I don’t have any faith in mantras as “magical” instruments. I think they can give us confidence, and that they can make us calmer, and that they can help us to be kinder and more compassionate. And I believe that all these qualities can make us more attractive to other people. But I don’t believe that they can directly attract people to us.

Sometimes when we say, as you did, that something happens “for no reason” we know we’re not really speaking accurately. When someone acts, they act for a reason. And if this friend is not in your life, he has his reasons. So what I wonder is, can you find out what these reasons are? And if you can, can you work to get closer to him again (if his reasons allow), and can find acceptance if his reasons for not being with you are insurmountable?

This is where mantras can be helpful. They can help you find the courage to ask questions and to make contact. They can help you have the kindness not to impose on the other person if your contact is unwanted. They can help you have the patience to accept what can’t be changed. But you also have to act, and to communicate.

By: heeral

heeral — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:13:20 +0000

Respected Bodhipaksa,
i really appreciate the way you have been helping people out of their pain.
I m a doctor … and its just a diagnostic branch i am in. Patients do tell me at times… that just by my touch their pain was relieved. Even one of the senior surgeon had told me — i have a healing touch!’ Things are good in most part of life.

But, i lost my father when i was in school. later i got separated frm my husband. And i made a friend last year… and we promised we will be best friends forever. But somehow .. he is now gone for no reasons. I just wonder , the people i adored the most left me. and i was deprived of love & care most of the times.. even thou i gave my best to them.
Can you suggest me some divine way / chant .. so that i can regain the friendship !
It appears silly. But for me … it is a very painful thing to realize that without any reason .. my friend suddenly dosent even feel like talking to me!

Regards.