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Mantra Power Tea Time Q&A
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Master Jenny T. Liu, M.A.
Monday,
April 27, 2009 |
The following is one of the many varied questions and answers discussed at an actual Feng Shui Tea Time workshop.
Tea Time Guest: What is a mantra?
Master Jenny: A mantra is a chant that we use to strengthen our personal energy that also corresponds to a Chinese calligraphy charm. The charm is a configuration, or diagram, that represents certain types of cosmic energies that help release different negative energies or enhance positive energies. Mantras can affect your spiritual energy and karma in very powerful ways to make your life better.
My father’s Chi Art paintings all have mantras included within them. Though the Chi Art might look like regular paintings, they are actually made up of special and powerful configurations of symbols and mantra charms.
Tea Time Guest: What language are the mantras?
Master Jenny: Sanskrit, which is an ancient Tibetan language. The mantras are phonetically translated to our students from very ancient, old books. Family treasures.
Master Liu: It is a spiritual language.
Tea Time Guest: What is the ideal way to do mantra meditations? Should you do all of them regularly, or just the ones in areas you feel you need help with?
Master Liu: Any action – mantra or mudra (accompanying hand movements) – is related to energy. Spiritual energies are like a computer, they have memory and they dwell in our body. If you save ten cents a day, the result is different at the end of the year than if you had saved one hundred dollars a day. It is the same with mantras. If you chant the mantra(s) all the time, you increase your good karma by that much. If you don’t do it all the time, you will still receive the benefit, just not as strong. So do what you can do.
Tea Time Guest: Is it a matter of degree? If you can do it for one hour – great. If you can do it five hours – great. If you can only do it twenty minutes…
Master Jenny: Exactly, it’s the accumulation of energy and depends on your lifestyle. Your lifestyle and your karma may allow you the time, the energy, and the ability to recite the mantra three hours a day. However, if you are very busy because you are very prosperous and you can only do the mantra in small portions of time – maybe that’s all you need. It has to be balanced with your life. The ideal is to accumulate as much of the mantra energy as possible. You can chant the mantra while driving or doing chores around the house, it does not mean
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you have to sit down and be completely focused and meditate. If I’m driving and I see road kill, I feel negative energy and right away I will chant a mantra.
Master Liu: When you pass by a graveyard – chant a mantra. You can do it any time.
Master Jenny: When you do that, it adds, in some ways, karma.
Master Liu: There are different purposes and different levels of mantras. All the mantras start with om. Om is white color, universal color, universal sun. The energy of om represents the natural sun and its message makes you feel more positive and more peaceful. If you encounter an obstacle then build up your energy with the mantra, and the obstacle automatically leaves.
Tea Time Guest: Where in the front door should I hang the mantra charm in the red pouch?
Master Jenny: I will explain this a little bit for those of you who have not heard of it. If the front door to your home is in the wrong orientation for you and you are limited in the amount of adjustments you can make to correct it, we put a mantra charm – a talisman - on the door itself. That talisman is drawn on a piece of paper and placed in a red pouch or red envelope to make sure it retains its power. The red pouch or envelope can then be placed anywhere on the door - at the top, on the frame, under the doormat – anywhere is fine. Of course, you want to place it somewhere where it won’t get lost, torn, or damaged. It is preferable to place it high on the door itself.
Master Liu: Before you put the charm in the red pouch, you must chant the mantra and make the accompanying hand motions – the mudra. Then the energy of the charm will be related with you and will protect you.
Master Jenny: If possible, try to empower the charm yourself. When we prepare mantras for you, my father has already done the meditations and empowerment on it. But that’s just to activate the power of the charm. For the charm to have an effect on your personal energy, it’s a good idea to personally connect with it, so we usually have you blow your own breath on it and do a mantra or chant yourself so that there is an energy exchange between you and the talisman.
Tea Time Guest: The empowerment is only done once, right? You don’t do it every day.
Master Jenny: One time is fine. In special situations – if your front door faces a negative direction and you know there will be a negative event, like groundbreaking or construction work about to begin, you can empower it again so it’s stronger.
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