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Mix and Match Mantras For An Extra Spiritual Kick |
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 by Elisa Albert, May 13, 2008 |
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Ommmmm: This guy's been hanging out in the mantra trailer"I Will Survive" + "I Am Nothing" = the truth is somewhere in between. From the addictive website for The Mantra Trailer:
Parked at the intersection of imagination, evangelism and propaganda, The Mantra Trailer is a traveling mediation space, recording studio and site of mysterious broadcast in the form of a 1972 breadbox trailer. The Mantra Trailer invites us to contemplate, chant, voice and explore our prayers, aspirations, desires, frustrations and petitions for the transformation of self and society, or whatever resonates within us, even the nonsensical. By-passers drawn to the Mantra Trailer are invited inside one at a time to contemplate and record their mantras in privacy.
Yes indeed, the mantra trailer is exactly what it sounds like! Click on any number of mantras (from the expected"Let It Go" and "It's All Okay" to the inscrutable "Pet The Wolf Run From The Rat") to create your own multi-layered mantra symphony. I especially like "Keep Your Eye on the Doughnut" plus "You Shall Know The Truth" plus "Concentrate and Expand." "Love" plus "Open Your Heart" is awesome. "It's All Gravy" goes well with pretty much everything. Go nuts.
The Sanskrit word mantra consists of the root man- (to think) (also in manas, or mind) and the suffix -tra (tool). So literally an "instrument of thought" or "mind tool." A mantra is a sacred word, chant or sound that is repeated during mediation to reduce our everyday material worries and elevate our worldly, spiritual aims.
Mantra Trailer mastermind Sherri Lynn Wood says mantras are "a homeopathic remedy for the mass media slogans of the day."
(Dig especially, then, the clever soul who chants "Visa takes Life.")
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hkatz
Mantra or Affirmation?
Hi,
Not to be overly tendentious, but the 'mantras' on this website are not really 'mantras' at all - they are affirmations. The essence of a mantra is that its' explicit meaning is not really important - what is key is the vibrational energy 'encoded' in the sound of the mantra. Thus, the penultimate Sanskrit mantra - 'Om' - doesn't really 'mean' anything. It is, rather, the vibrational energy of the 'hum' of the universe in audible form.
Affirmations, on the other hand, are generally uplifting thoughts which, if repeated over and over, have a positive effect on one's psyche. They depend on their content - not their vibrational energy. Affirmations are fine and useful - but they aren't mantras.
Om Shanti,
Howie
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