WE ALL NEED TO BE LIVING WITH OUR HEARTS WIDE OPEN IN LOVE
And the easiest and surest way to develop it is through using the Mantra of Love and Compassion
THE DAWNING LIGHT—Daily Journal of Transformational Writing
Volume 8, # 806 Saturday, March 2, 2024
MEDITATION TRAINING INTENSIVE Section # 8
Lovingly written and published by Chinmayan…to inspire you to uplevel your ability to be ever more loving, caring and compassionate through simply chanting this powerful and blissful mantra…
All images in this issue courtesy of Pixabay
WE ALL NEED TO BE LIVING WITH OUR HEARTS OPEN WIDE IN LOVE
And the best way to make living with an open and loving heart your daily reality is through chanting the Mantra Of Love and Compassion:
OM MANI PAYDMEH HUNG!
We all need to be living our lives with our hearts open and flowing with love…
Yet, even though we all we need love to thrive and really be happy, most of us are living our daily lives with our hearts tightly closed most of the time.
If we are fortunate, we have had moments when our hearts opened—such as when we were “falling in love” with our life partner or holding our baby in our arms or sharing closeness with a dear friend.
But life is often challenging.
We all go through painful experiences, where we get hurt, our trust is betrayed, or we suffer heartbreak and loss.
Even going through “normal” daily life is hurried, stressful and overwhelming.
Then, day by day, our hearts close to protect and defend ourselves from having to feel the hurt, fear and pain.
This happens without our being aware of it, and over time living with a closed heart becomes our habit and a condition.
It becomes our “default” or normal position in life.
We get used to it and it gets hard to remember what it felt like to have our hearts open.
And yet, inwardly, we all need love more than anything else.
Image Credit: Pixabay
We long for the joy, power, consciousness, healing and all the other great and necessary things we get from living in an open hearted loving state.
The good news is that it is possible and can be attained through meditation and inner work.
For myself, and many people I have taught over the years, one of the most helpful things is to consciously use simple but powerful spiritual practices that raise your vibrational frequency so that your love starts flowing…
And the easiest and most effective is to sing or chant the Mantra of Love and Compassion:
OM MANI PAYDMEH HUNG!
Since I received this amazing mantra from Kalu Rinpoche more than 50 years ago, it has been my primary spiritual practice which has steadily transformed my consciousness so that now I live from a space of a wide open and loving heart all of the time.
I have shared much more about this awesome practice in these stories:
This is what Om Mani Paydmeh Hung looks like in Tibetan…The masters say that this mantra is so powerful that simply by seeing it written out will have a major positive effect on your stream of consciousness…for this reason, in Tibet it is written on prayer flags, on walls, carved into stones so that its blessing power is constantly at work….
But for now I invite you to take it for a “test flight” by listening to and chanting with these videos below.
There is nothing better for you nor more blissfully addictive than feeling Pure Love flowing through your heart…and chanting this mantra is one of the very best ways to tap into that abundant inner spring we all carry within our own hearts!
HERE ARE TWO VERSIONS OF THE “MANI” FOR YOU TO SING and PRACTICE WITH…
This beautiful mantra can be sung to practically any melody that you love.
But first, learn to chant the mantra correctly and after you have it on repeat internally, after a short time, you will be able to easily put this mantra with your favorite melodies…
Please be aware that some people, even some who have made recordings mispronounce it…to get the full power of the mantra, which grows steadily day by day as you practice, it is vital to pronounce it correctly.
If you do, and do the chanting with even a little intention and focused attention, you will soon feel the results blossoming in your heart and mind as your own capacity to love, to receive love, give love and be Love in your daily life will constantly expand.
As this happens, you will naturally be more loving and see life from the point of view of loving and caring. This is a radical shift that your whole being has always been wanting and calling for.
I have been using this mantra for 5o years and I promise that if you will just do this mantra for even two weeks as I recommend, you will be amazed at the results and will want to continue to reap the ever increasing results and rewards!
“OM MANI PADME HUNG” By Majbritte Ulrikkeholm and Soren Frieboe
“OM MANI PAYDMEH HUNG” being chanted by Chinmayan while driving home into the setting sun…
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
Image Credit: Still Mountain Meditation Center
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