Mantras

Reflections

Street Mantras

The title ‘Grand Central Station’ should be enough to understand why avoiding such a place in one of the largest cities in the world, not to mention during the holiday season at rush hour, is sound…

By Tricycle

MeditationMagazine | On Practice

Mantra: Tool for Thinking

The Sanskrit word mantra combines the root man (“to think”) with the suffix tra (“instrument” or “tool”). Therefore, mantra means literally “tool for thinking.” Since earliest Buddhist times, the repetition of sacred phrases has been used…

By Tricycle

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