Join us for a day of mantrams for Peace and Healing throughout the world!
On March 13 the BMCM will be hosting a day of mantrams for peace and healing. Please join us on Satsang Live where people from all over the world will write mantrams together. We will start writing the mantram at 9:40 before the Satsang Live program begins at 10 am. We will make BMCM Satsang Live the centerpiece of our mantram day.
Last week in our new Mantram Handbook book study, Easwaran put before us the lofty goal of establishing the mantram in our consciousness with the result that “you are delivered from the turmoil of the mind.”
This week let’s continue by reading pages 22–27 where he sets to work detailing the path to that goal, beginning with choosing a mantram. The approach to which he responds, Easwaran explains, “is one which the Buddha would call ‘the way of the open hand.’ The spiritual teacher says, ‘I don’t have a closed fist; my hand is open. Everything I know that can help you cross the sea of life is yours for the asking.’”
We are working together as a satsang community to make the most of this great gift.
Which lines particularly strike you, and how can you apply them to your life this week?
We are working to deepen our practice of the mantram. Here is an experiment to try this week:
Sit comfortably in a chair. Resolve to repeat the mantram for three minutes without having any other thought at all. Then try it. After you succeed at doing this a few days in a row, try extending that practice to five minutes.
If you don’t yet have the book The Mantram Handbook available, make sure you get it so you can join for the rest of the book study. You may want to order from an online retailer that offers expedited shipping. (If you’d like to buy a copy in our BMCM online store you can use the coupon code manymantrams to receive a 40% discount, however, shipping may take 2-3 weeks for delivery. Please note that the BMCM discount on books is not available from online retailers.)
