Om Mani Padme Hum
Benefits of reciting the Om Mani Padme Hum mantra
1. The Om Mani Padme Hum mantra is the manifestation of the speech and wisdom power of all the Buddhas. It is a means to protect the mind from deluded thoughts, to cut through ignorance and to open up wisdom. It increases immeasurable blessings and enables one to attain peace. This mantra can save and pacify hundreds and thousands of suffering and hardships of sentient beings
2. Reciting Om Mani Padme Hum will dispel illness, sickness and evil forces, and one will become happy, peaceful and fulfilled.
3. Reciting this mantra will strengthen the power of meditation and develop deeper levels of meditation in this life, which will continue in many future lives.
4. By reciting this mantra, at the time of death, one will not be born in the three lower realms but will be reborn in Dewachen – the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss or in Avalokiteshvara’s own Pure Land – Riwo Potala, and there one will gradually attain Buddhahood. Until then, the blessings and power of the practice will not be exhausted; it will continue to produce the result of enlightenment.
The benefits of reciting the Compassion Buddha mantra are infinite, like the limitless sky.
Om
The first, Om is composed of three letters. A, U, and M. These symbolize the practitioner's impure body, speech, and mind; they also symbolize the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha.
Can impure body, speech, and mind be transformed into pure body, speech, and mind, or are they entirely separate?
All Buddhas are cases of beings who were like ourselves and then in dependence on the path became enlightened; Buddhism does not assert that there is anyone who from the beginning is free from faults and possesses all good qualities. The development of pure body, speech, and mind comes from gradually leaving the impure states and their being transformed into the pure.
How is this done?
The path is indicated by the next four syllables.
Mani
Mani, meaning jewel, symbolizes the factors of method—the altruistic intention to become enlightened, compassion, and love.
Just as a jewel is capable of removing poverty, so the altruistic mind of enlightenment is capable of removing the poverty, or difficulties, of cyclic existence and of solitary peace.
Similarly, just as a jewel fulfills the wishes of sentient beings, so the altruistic intention to become enlightened fulfills the wishes of sentient beings.
Padme
The two syllables, padme, meaning lotus, symbolize wisdom, just as a lotus grows forth from mud but is not sullied by the faults of mud, so wisdom is capable of putting you in a situation of non-contradiction whereas there would be contradiction if you did not have wisdom.
There is wisdom realizing impermanence, wisdom realizing that persons are empty of being self-sufficient or substantially existent, wisdom that realizes the emptiness of duality—that is to say, of difference of entity between subject an object—and wisdom that realizes the emptiness of inherent existence.
Though there are many different types of wisdom, the main of all these is the wisdom realizing emptiness.
Hum
Purity must be achieved by an indivisible unity of method and wisdom, symbolized by the final syllable hum, which indicates indivisibility. According to the sutra system, this indivisibility of method and wisdom refers to wisdom affected by method and method affected by wisdom.
In the mantra or tantric, vehicle, it refers to one consciousness in which there is the full form of both wisdom and method as one undifferentiable entity.
In terms of the seed syllables of the five Conqueror Buddhas, hum is the seed syllable of Akshobhya—the immovable, the unfluctuating, that which cannot be disturbed by anything.
There are a lot of different meanings and different opinions on what each syllable means.
Generally, each syllable represents one of the six goals of Buddhist existence and helps heal or purify and bring forth the positive qualities associated with that goal.
Let’s take a look at the meaning of each word in the mantra:
• Om = the vibration or sound of the universe; represents divine energy and generosity and purifies the ego
• Ma = represents ethics and purifies jealousy
• Ni = represents patience and purifies want or desire
• Pad = represents diligence and purifies ignorance and judgment
• Me = represents concentration
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