Mantra Recitation - Do You Do Enough?

[Chaz]

My PI said to begin.

Wow, you hired a private investigator to tell you when to begin with ngondro?

No, "Practice Instructor" and she wasn't hired.

[Adamantine]

Again no disagreement with quality over quantity, but I do have an objection to simply reciting mentally. According to the instructions I received, the practitioner should actually recite the mantra verbally so that he/she can hear the mantra him/herself. It should be discreet, but audible to oneself at least.

Definitely. The point is to simultaneously practice with body, speech, and mind, and thus simultaneously purify all three. Actually vocalizing mantras is said to have the effect of purifying all manner of past negative speech and obscurations of speech.

Ah interesting, thanks!

Well speech is also shorthand for the inner winds, but you know that.

[mudra]

Hi Adamantine,
wasn't that quote (Definitiely etc...) from Pema Rigdzin?

[Adamantine]

Hi Adamantine,
wasn't that quote (Definitiely etc...) from Pema Rigdzin?

ha ha I guess so.. I couldn't remember writing it but it's certainly something I could've written.. but then why is my name on it?

[Pero]

I LOLed quite a bit when I saw your posts, it was my blunder, I don't know what I was thinking haha.

No, "Practice Instructor" and she wasn't hired.