There are two types of sicknesses, one is an external sickness. This is a virus , bacteria, or birth defect. This usually takes medication and will get worse if not treated. What you might not know is the second sickness is self inflicted ailments. These are about 70% of all sicknesses. Our bodies where built from the inside out and perfectly designed to stay healthy. It’s only when we upset our body that it becomes weaker and can be sick from itself. Sickness most of the time is healed from within, just like how we where created. If your body is distracted with other things it might not be able to do it what needs to be healthy. Think of your body as a car that brakes down. Would you rather go to a local auto shop or the manufacture? You should think of sickness in the same way, you have the power to heal much better than a doctor. The trick to this is to start with you to heal. For example if you are in a stressful home, your body will be distracted from the stress and not be able to work the way it should. If you take too many […]
Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hum, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion. Viewing the written form of the mantra is said to have the same effect — it is often carved into stones, like the one pictured above, and placed where people can see them. Spinning the written form of the mantra around in a Mani wheel (or prayer wheel) is also believed to give the same benefit as saying the mantra, and Mani wheels, small hand wheels and large wheels with millions of copies of the mantra inside, are found everywhere in the lands influenced by Tibetan Buddhism. The Prayer Wheel: Spiritual Technology from Tibet It is said that all the teachings of the Buddha are contained in this mantra: Om Mani Padme Hum can not really be translated into a simple phrase or sentence. It is appropriate, though, to say a little about the mantra, so that people who want to use it in their meditation practice will have some sense of what they are doing, and people who are just curious will understand a little better what the […]