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vicia3:
I am not a CP practitioner, but this is certainly not what they purport to do when they repeat a “sacred word”.
And I must ask, if you do not agree with the Cloud of Unknowing,
does that mean you also do not agree with the Rosary, the Jesus Prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours, or the Mass? For these all involve, to varying degrees, the use of repeated sacred words with the intent of drawing closer to God.
Some years ago I wandered far from Christianity, dabbled in oriental religions, and studied yoga in depth. That dictionary definition doesn’t really get at what “mantra” means in Sanskrit. It means more properly, a word that has, in itself, the power to bring about what it signifies through its own sound vibration. For example, the mantra “om” is supposed to be the physical sound the whole universe makes, and by repeating this mantra one comes into harmony with the whole universe; the mantra “shrim” is the root sound of wealth, and by repeating this mantra one supposedly attracts prosperity into his life.What is the difference between “sacred word” and mantra?
This is the definition I found for mantra:
"mantra
n 1: a commonly repeated word or phrase; “she repeatedSo pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra" 2: (Sanskrit) literally a
sacred utterance’ in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns”
Don’t you just pick a sacred word, like Jesus or part of the scriptures and repeat it over and over. Isn’t that the definition of mantra?
Also, I do not agree with the “Cloud of the Unknowing.”
I am not a CP practitioner, but this is certainly not what they purport to do when they repeat a “sacred word”.
And I must ask, if you do not agree with the Cloud of Unknowing,
does that mean you also do not agree with the Rosary, the Jesus Prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours, or the Mass? For these all involve, to varying degrees, the use of repeated sacred words with the intent of drawing closer to God.