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     info   music   animations   intuit   Buddhism   home     The Repetition of Mantras     from The Great Path of Awakening -note 72 ...Mantras guard the mind from nondharmic attitudes     from Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma     as taught by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche ...If you wish to pursue a practice in connection with the state of sleeping, the most effective and practical one is to go to sleep while very gently, quietly, maybe even mentally, saying a mantra,....By falling asleep with this mantra going through your mind, all of your sleep, whether dreaming or in a state of unconsciousness, will automatically become the cultivation of virtue. This is because that virtuous state of mind with which you entered sleep will be maintained until you wake up. This is the best single use of sleep for practice. |