the role of chanting
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the role of chanting
has chanting always been an institute within the buddhist tradition or is it a more modern invention
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Re: the role of chanting
From my knowledge, there wasn't Buddhist chanting during the time of the Buddha.
Chanting is for inspiration and a precursor to calm the mind in meditation.
Chanting is for inspiration and a precursor to calm the mind in meditation.
"A virtuous monk, Kotthita my friend, should attend in an appropriate way to the five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self."
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Re: the role of chanting
Don't forget that the suttas were not initially written down. They were transmitted by chanting them.
Mike
Mike
Re: the role of chanting
Chanting is a way of memorising the Sutta.
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”