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Om Mani Padme Hung
( Jewel of Enlightenment is in the Heart Lotus )Om Mani Padme Hung
Think:
May all beings have happiness and the cause
of happiness, which is virtue.Om Mani Padme Hung
Pray:
May all beings remain free from suffering and the causes of suffering, which are non virtue and delusion.Om Mani Padme Hung
Wish:
May all beings remain unseparated from the sacred
joy and happiness, that is totally free from sorrow.Om Mani Padme Hung
Pray:
May all beings come to rest in the boundless, all-inclusive equanimity beyond attachment and aversion.Om Mani Padme Hung
Affirm:
May all beings be happy, content, and fulfilled.Om Mani Padme Hung
May all be peaceful in harmony and at ease.
Om Mani Padme Hung
May all be protected from harm, fear, and danger.
Om Mani Padme Hung
May all have whatever they want, need, and aspire to.
Om Mani Padme Hung
May all be healed and whole again.
Om Mani Padme Hung
May this planet be healed and whole again.
Om Mani Padme Hung
May all beings awaken from their sleep of illusions and be liberated, enlightened, and free.
Om Mani Padme Hung
May all realize their true spiritual nature and thus awaken the Buddha within.
Om Mani Padme Hung
May all equally enjoy, actualize, and embody the innate Great Perfection.
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Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hung, 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 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.
It is said that all the teachings of the Buddha are contained in this mantra: Om Mani Padme Hung can not really be translated into a simple phrase or sentence.
The mantra originated in India; as it moved from India into Tibet, the pronunciation changed because some of the sounds in the Indian Sanskrit language were hard for Tibetans to pronounce.
Sanskrit form Om Mani Padma Hum Mantra of Avalokiteshvara
Tibetan form Om Mani Peme Hung Mantra of Chenrezig
The mantra Om Mani Padme Hung is found written in two different ways in (and on) Mani wheels and on jewelry, etc.: in the ancient Indian Ranjana script and in Tibetan script:
The Prayer Wheel:
Spiritual Technology from Tibet
Ranjana script
Tibetan script
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