Ep. 386 - Practice Buddhist Chanting - Chant Along to Develop Your Chanting Practice

Practice Buddhist Chanting - Chant Along to Develop Your Chanting Practice Use this video to develop your chanting practice through chanting along with the Teacher. Daily Chants - Quick Reference Sheet - Before and After Meditation (Print and laminate to deepen your practice for use before and after meditation.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rCqcHUWmTn1_n0zN1ojxkZPPG-nwtf6K/view?usp=sharing (Youtube - Practice Buddhist Chanting) https://youtu.be/Vyl22AWOhYA LEARN Chanting (Youtube Playlist) (5 videos) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atx9PIggJUY&list=PLFuun1phKgQk24aw10ihEcnEjzidP2DPC --------- Chanting or Mantras: Throughout the world there are Practitioners who do “chanting” of The Teachings. It is important that Practitioners understand, while chanting can help to create mindfulness (i.e. awareness of mind), concentration, and memory, the words themselves and the sounds coming from a person’s mouth do not have any mystical, magical, or special power to attain or create Enlightenment. There are no mystical, magical, or special powers that one could use in a chant or mantra that would create benefit of doing such things as destroying unwholesome Kamma, attaining Enlightenment, transferring Merit/Kamma, achieving a long life, helping beings that have already died, improving one’s destination after death or any other beneficial result. Mantras are sometimes taught and “believed” to have mystical, magical, or special powers. This is not true and will not result in beneficial outcomes beyond training for concentration, memory, or awareness of mind. All of Gotama Buddha’s Teachings are focused on the Practitioner learning and practicing Teachings that train the mind, not invoking mystical, magical, or special powers for any sort of benefit. Gotama Buddha himself rejected these types of practices and described them as a “lowly art”. Chanting can be relaxing and a powerful practice to calm the mind while developing awareness of mind and awareness of breath through training of the mind, but not through mystical or magical powers. To attain Enlightenment, a Practitioner needs to practice the entire Eight Fold Path. It is through our practice of learning and applying The Teachings in everyday life, that we liberate the mind to attain Enlightenment. Listening to chanting or performing chanting can help to create a peaceful mind, develop mindfulness, and awareness of breath. One can use the practice of chanting to improve concentration, memory, and awareness of mind among other beneficial results to train one’s own mind. Chanting can help calm the mind, however, the Practitioner will need to do the work to sustain the mindfulness and calmness of mind long term. Chanting is just one practice that helps to develop mindfulness and the mind will need a “life practice” to cultivate a content mind with Enlightenment. A Practitioner will need to learn and practice the entire Eight Fold Path as their “life practice” to attain Enlightenment. Merely chanting or reciting a mantra for some beneficial result is not what Gotama Buddha taught as part of The Path to Enlightenment. These Teachings are 100% focused on learning and practicing Teachings that lead to liberation of the mind to eliminate discontentedness. A chant or mantra alone will not accomplish that goal and is not required to attain Enlightenment.