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Maddie
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Interesting 🤔
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Well I think SGI is a fairly recent development in Nichiren Buddhism and definitely doesn't represent the whole thing or even most of the history of it. The reason I was asking about Christian and Catholic stuff is because lately I've been experimenting with praying to some of the saints and the rosary and such but I had a weird experience earlier today where I started feeling physically sick from it like clammy shaky hands nausea very pessimistic ECT... It was very strange I didn't start feeling better until I started doing some Buddhist chanting. Primarily Nam myoho renge Kyo and the zhunti mantra.
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just out of curiosity if you ever experimented with prayers to any of the Christian deities or saints? I ask because I've been experimenting like me but I don't think they make me feel very good.
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Interesting 🤔
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I would be curious if you don't mind sharing some of your experiences so far with this?
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So I had heard that Amitofu works on the crown chakra. Does anyone know a Buddhist mantra that works on the brow chakra?
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I thought about that too. It makes me think about the lotus sutra and the use of expedient means to reach various people various ways.
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It's interesting you say that because I never really tried to do visualisations while doing mantras but lately Catholic imagery pops in my head even though I've never been Catholic. Images like statues and cathedrals and such things.
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I've noticed something lately. From what I've read different mantras affect different chakras. I had read that Amitofu was supposed to work primarily on the crown chakra. I've also noticed that if I do primarily this mantra that I eventually begin to feel more skeptical and doubting. If it acts primarily on the crown chakra that relates most to spirituality then I wonder if these thoughts and feelings which are basically the opposite of spirituality are the gunk being cleaned out of that chakra. I'd also heard that Zhunti mantra primarily affected the heart chakra. I noticed that if I spend a lot of time doing that mantra that I feel a lot of emotional issues which relate to the heart chakra.
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Agreed
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So I think it's taken for granted that working on your qi it's good for your health and mind but does it affect your outside world? Does it affect your success in your career and with money? Things like this? is there anything in Taoist literature that indicate any such effect?
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So I've been doing this mantra again lately and I've always experienced a wide range of effects but it seems like lately after I do it I get extremely tired and fall asleep.
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I really like it. I feel that it has a big effect in my heart and chest area and I feel a lot of compassion and kindness when I do it similarly to the mani mantra.
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I've been doing a lot of Zhunti mantra lately. I've noticed similar experiences to what you were describing. The mantra seems to be powerful in dealing with karma and and having an effect on my mind but it's also powerful so I found it necessary to mitigate it with other practices.
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Yes helpful, thank you. Interesting. I was unaware of such prayers. The one to Amitofo Buddha kind of reminds me a little bit of the Orthodox Jesus prayer. "Lord Jesus Christ son of God have mercy on me.". I have more confidence in the Buddhist stuff but have you ever experimented with the prayers of other traditions and if so was your impressions of their effectiveness?
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Great synopsis. Have you found it to help you with worldly issues as well?
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I would be interested to hear any further observations you have.
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This is a good one.
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I am very hesitant to do this mantra because of its very strong purging properties but last week I did it again for the first time and maybe a year and OMG that was not fun LOL.
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I think another factor is that in Theravada it's all on you, but in Mahayana there are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to help you.
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Yes, I think it would have much to do with the collective karma of the society that determines the leader they get.
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I've been doing medicine Buddha more lately. I'm impressed.
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True but if you look at the various states of health of individuals it quickly becomes apparent that the state and quality of Qi in different people is not the same. One can also assume this is the case in the environment with the different states of feng shui different locations have.
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What exactly is the religious aspects of Confucianism? About all I vaguely know is there are temples, incense, and priests, but what is the purpose? What do they do? Why do they do what they do?
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Something that has been a bit of a surprise to me to realize lately is the reactivity I have to my two major Theravada practices which are meditation and reading texts. It seems that either one produces a strong reaction and me that is awesome not positive and I'm not sure why.
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