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How to Use a Mantra to Meditate

If you were alive in the 1970s, or if you just like the Beatles, you’ve probably heard of Transcendental Meditation or TM, which was popularized by the Fab Four after their trip to India and their involvement with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi got them interested in Hindu meditation and Indian religious practices. Transcendental Meditation is one of the better known methods of meditating with a ‘mantra’. A ‘mantra’ is a word or nonsense syllable that helps the person meditating bring his or her attention back to the act of meditation and away from thought and outside distraction. By chanting or concentrating on the mantra, the person practicing the meditation learns to detach from his or her ego self and become pure awareness, which is a function of the higher Self. Often, when you read about the self in meditation texts, the ego self is talked about with a small ’s’ and the higher self with a capital ‘S’. Buddhists also sometimes refer to the ego self as ‘monkey mind’, because it is the thinking, restless ego that is always jumping around and flitting from this or that object in the external world, unaware of the pure awareness, or higher Self, that supports it. One of the most common mantras is the Sanskrit work ‘Om’, which is the sound the Universe makes by itself. For more about using mantras in meditation practice, visit www.tm.org.

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