The diffusing power of prayer wheels
(OMTimes | Shakti world ) Prayer wheels can be used to amplify the power of your prayers and send them out into the environment.
Discover the power of prayer wheels
Prayers are a Mystical contemplative exercise, and it is part of the practice of major religions. The Islam calls to prayer 5 times a day; the Jewish have the tradition to pray three times a day, and the Buddhists use prayer wheels to send their intentions for an increase of compassion and of relief of suffering to the Spiritual Plane. In a diverse way, prayers are the most common of human spiritual activities.
Prayer wheels function the same way as the Prayer Flags, diffusing the prayer energy throughout the environment. The custom to use the Prayer Flags comes from Tibet and dates back to the 11th century. It was the great Indian master Atisha (982-1054) who taught his disciples how to print prayers and mantras on pieces of cloth from engraved wooden blocks.
None of our actions are sterile. Whether they are body, word or mind, all produce effects according to the nature of the motivation that arouses them. Following this elemental logic, printing sacred texts with a pure intention is a source of positive energy, which naturally produces beneficial effects. Also, the wind that comes in contact with the flags on which are printed sacred symbols and symbols also comes in contact with everything. It is the air we breathe, the oxygen that dissolves in our blood, the carbon dioxide that plants use. Just like a small device can make negative ions and make the atmosphere healthier, the wind, from a simple technique and without danger to the environment, in contact with sacred symbols, spreads everywhere our vows for good and for the temporal and last happiness of all beings, thus creating a vast positive field.
A Prayer Wheel (mani korlo, in Tibetan) is a cultural object used by practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Ancient traditional Prayer Wheels is composed of a chamber containing mantras (sacred words) that rotates freely on a vertical axis. According to the beliefs associated with this holy object, turning the Wheel has the same spiritual value as reciting the mantras prayer. The Prayers thus diffuses in the air as if it were even pronounced. The Mantras or Power Words, sometimes seed sounds are written on paper, rolled up or also carved, which when turned start emitting subtle energy, capable of generating health, peace, balance, and vitality for all.
Tibetans believe that when you turn the prayer wheel, instead of reciting just one mantra, you are reciting all the thousands of mantras contained in the mantras roll inside the drum chamber. This increases your positive energy; this energy can be dedicated to own intention or to benefit other beings.
Nagarjuna, one of the leading Tibetan masters, states that the printed mantras have as much power as the recited ones. And, according to Him, the fact of running everywhere allows benefits to spread beyond time and space.
Photographic films of mantras are also used so that more mantras can be placed inside the wheels.
Prayer Wheels are often arranged and aligned in long series to be set in motion, one by one, by the faithful who pass before them. The believer rotates the wheels always with his right hand. The Wheel of Prayer must be turned clockwise so that the mantras are read in the sense in which they were written.
In Buddhism, it is believed that the more one recites the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, the easiest it is to contact the Bodhisattvas.
These wheels can be found in various temples and Sacred living spaces. Embedded in the Tibetan Buddhist culture, the prayer wheels invite those who see them, to turn these Wheels so that their prayers can multiply and rise above our daily levels.
A Prayer Wheel corresponds to a cylinder containing mantras (sacred words), written on paper, rolled up or even carved, which when turned is subtle emitting energy, capable of generating health, peace, balance, and vitality for all. In Tibetan monasteries, billions of prayers per minute are raised to the skies by the monks who, in turning their Prayer Wheels, bring balance primarily to the planet. These blessings can be for healing, peace on Earth, elimination of negativity, longevity, and knowledge of Buddhist teachings. The well-known Compassion Mantra: OM MANI PADME HUM is written several times and placed inside the Prayer Wheels.
Source: OMTimes
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