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UK
/mˈɑːntɹɐ/
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[ US /ˈmæntɹə/ ]
[ US /ˈmæntɹə/ ]
NOUN
- (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns
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a commonly repeated word or phrase
she repeated `So pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra
How To Use mantra In A Sentence
- Other inscriptions discovered are Sanskrit mantras transliterated in Tulu script.
- Californian hippies in suits intone the inane and never-challenged mantra that information wants to be free.
- Holiness answers audience questions addressing the situation of Tibet, goal of bodhicitta, nature of enlightened mind, future of the Dalai Lama institution, compatibility of Buddhist practices with theistic faith, universal purpose of human life, practice of patience towards harm-doers, subtle energy and mind, and the Heart Sutra mantra. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
- But the mantra serves mainly to remind me of my deep attachment to the nubble.
- The 'work hard, get good grades and go to college to get a job' mantra is dead," says twenty-something self-confessed hustler Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke (Wiley, December 2010). Emily Bennington: 'Entitled' to What, Being Unemployed?
- The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice". Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
- An organization that accepts the antipsychiatry mantra that we have medicalized everything, and their devotion to confronting abuse, but rejects their position that mental illness does not exist. DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action
- Includes a fifteen-track CD with the entire Tao I Text Tao Jing, which is the focus of the book, and many other major practice mantras. Divine Transformation
- After one or two weeks, when the shifting is over, I will be able to provide you with the necessary mantra and yantra for prapti siddhi.
- Pranava, Aum, is the root mantra and primal sound from which all creation issues forth.