GENERAL MAINTENANCE BI mantra sensibly

A. The preparation steps before the great compassion mantra recitation.

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has promised us: "If the practitioner can maintain the correct legal procedure, starting mercy all human beings, then we will be best for all Good god, Long King, Kim Cang, missing usually under support, not to leave his side, such as maintaining eye contact or their own life. "
So, how is the maintenance procedure compassion paying lawful?
Under similitude physiognomy indicated ten characteristics Divine essence of the Great Compassion Mantra , but most important is compassion, so each time reciting this mantra meditator must begin to visualize centripetal starting mercy all beings. Ideally, to achieve the performance that brought mantra, during the recitation, one must preserve morality, especially police, religion, sex, hope. Must abstain from meat wine, these onions, shallots, garlic, and smelly foods. It is best to eat vegetarian.
Must body hygiene, regular bathing, changing clothes clean, so that the people should not smell. Before mantras should also brush your teeth, rinse your mouth clean, if there had been defecating, urinating, they must wash your hands before tung.Tom lead back, "Keeping older people, in which monastery, bath wash and wear clean clothes, hanging lamp part, use the same floral offerings of food, forcing a space center ", which is all ideal conditions for keeping notes Compassionate practitioner. However, as mentioned above, the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara only requires two things every time we recite the Great Compassion Mantra, which is the heart and not the pursuit of evil things. This allows the practitioner can recite at any time that conditions allow. On the car, on the train, on a plane, at work, at home ... With a heart, our mind will then integrate into wearing the same words recited to enter into the legal world, the ten Buddhas. Because Bodhisattva tell us, each mantra of Great Compassion, the Buddhas were to prove. Altar: The practitioner should have a separate room to set up the altar quiet Bodhisattva. The altar should be the image of Bodhisattva thousand arms, thousand eyes. If not, can use any image of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara which is his. Image of Bodhisattva should face west to day. On the altar, but not mandatory, but should have fresh flowers, fruit, incense, incense burners to plug, water offerings. So leave the lights on when the ceremony. way to sit, bow : Each person should have a specific coordinates, or more simply, a clean cloth or cotton towels folded to make your meditation space. The practitioner should sit cross-legged in a way, but if there are problems, you can sit in a way to sell old (sitting cross-legged, right leg over left leg guards or vice versa), palms facing up to their backs, hands to face up on the left hand, the fingers of the two collide. Eyes half open so, if to discourage it easy to fall into a state of drowsiness, if it is difficult for large open mind. , O is the ritual expression of reverence and respect. Every time there is a different way to show respect. Old-fashioned way of worship in the manner of the Chinese has many very inconvenient, not suitable for air hall. First of all, with this worship style, while the ceremony each person occupies a considerable area around enough to be able to stand and kneel down to worship, hinder the small hall. Kneeling down to standing up noises caused by movement, rustle of clothing, the action could also release the dirt, germs we carry the clothes, the odor of the body - especially in hot climates nuc- origin, unhygienic, polluting the environment we need to breathe. No matter the mess stood up and knelt down in the very difficult position as ... So, we can practice a relatively simple way of worship during the ceremony, the student sat under the posture of meditation, full lotus or half-lotus, bow just bent the first floor front, extending this position a short time enough to recite the phrase "Namo Compassionate Avalokiteshvara potash", then sat up. procedural way Read compassion Note: Great Compassion Mantra should be recited out loud, powerful bass tone, quickly and continuously by taking a bit of a belly. Loud here does not mean we have to shout, but the voice should be clear, full voice heard, not dim, camp voice. Economics "Sai Special Karma" said the Buddha, chanting, mantras loud ten merit following: 1. Putting the haunted sleepy 2. Tian ma panic. 3. Buzz around ten 4. Three full-width line 5. English life not reach the ears 6. The heart is not in panic 7. Strong effort 8. Buddhas rejoice 9. Out front Samadhi 10. Reborn in the Pure Land Actually, I will not worry sleepiness obsessive. Because when reciting the Great Compassion Mantra, the position Heaven, Long, Dharmapala will always be there for us, when we fall into sleepiness, and He will help us awaken code then you will experience when practicing tuc- mantras seriously sound like a thunderclap in the beginning made ​​me aghast, startled awake. Typically then I will not (or dare not) fall asleep again. However, if this happens a second time during meditation, this means that the body was so tired, I ask to be discharged meditation for relaxation. however, in some special cases to chant silently to himself alone, or just lip sync the sound is not as if we're working, carpooling with another ship, or to go to bed before sleep.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTFOLD PATH.NAM MO SAKYA MUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.16/9/2014.