to recite mantras whenever when this is the way I work with them. Whenever you're in in environments where the distraction index goes up. And so for me, this is just default, like the minute I start to travel the minute I pick up my Uber, to get to the bus, to get to the airport to get on my plane, you know, all that works. The minute I start to move because it's really interesting, maybe you've noticed this, how easily we get distracted when we move. And so I have found, in particular, when I'm engaging in travel, it this point is just default. I mean, the minute the minute I'm out of the house, I don't do them the rosary thing here because I don't want to draw attention to myself. That's why you do the mental recitation. I mean, I'm reciting mantras constantly. And in particular, you know, if things are getting really challenging, there's some emotional upheaval there's some chaos there's some you know impending threat or danger. Mantras are fantastically efficacious mechanisms to keep us from losing our seat from becoming distracted. So that's a central aspect of mantras. And it's based on our really important principle of tantra of Adriane altogether and this is this is definitely worth talking about and that is, what what Tantra does what what Adrianna does, is it's a little bit like, Eastern alchemy is it takes nomina principles that we are engaged in whether we know it or not. Certain unconscious processes, practices that we're doing that we're not even aware of. And what the Tantras do then is they take these unconscious processes, bring them into the light of consciousness, and then allow us to establish a conscious relationship to this phenomena to this process. And so by this what I mean is, take a look at your own mind. You will discover I will help you understand point out you are always reciting mantras. We are always reciting mantras. We recite mantras of the sword I'll be again all this stuff I'll be unpacking a moment mergers come in a variety of lengths from one, one syllable mantras. They're called Beija BIJC. BG means seed. So bija, mantras are seed mantras and so the five syllables associated with the Dream Yoga mantra these are five big mantras, which I'm going to unpack later on our new top. Each one of these sounds which by the way, does not need to be translated most monitors derive their power from the sound itself, not from the translation. So these are some mantras Yes, a few monitors are translated but the vast majority of them are not. So Omana Tada in itself doesn't have meaning, but each of the beat each of the seed syllables, as we'll see, probably not tonight, but next time has a tremendous meaning in terms of what it represents. So what I'm getting at here is is we recite bija mantras and this is my playful rendering on this and see if it's not true for you. We recite bija mantras based on three fundamental seed syllables. Ready? Here's the first one this will resonate with you, Eddie. Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee like alright, me, me, me, or my mind, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine mine, it's like a petulant two year old right Me, me, me, me, me, me mine, mine, mine, mine, mine mine. My favorite one. My Jewish brothers and sisters love this one. III Yeah, I Right. Yeah. So really, these are these are three bija mantra see syllable mantras. I mean, me me. My mind. Mind. Right. Right. You chuckled because you know it's true. I was like, Ah, geez. Busted, right. And so these these three bija, mantras, seed syllable mantras, then, we flush out to what are called da Ronnie's. These are just longer mantras, some of which can be 100 syllables or even longer. And so from these bija, mantras come the discursive mantras that we're always reciting in the various forms of like, How can I profit from the situation? What does this person have to do with me? What about mine, you know, just look at your look at your life. How much of our lives are based on highly self referential machinations, right? How does everything relate to me? Where do I fit in? And maybe I'm just being, you know, revealing the interiority of my perverted landscape. But when I look at my own mind and life, it's like, so much of my life is you know, neurotically self referential, right, I mean mind. And so we recite these mantras. I mean, look at your mind. I heard one psychologist a couple years ago. 90% of the thoughts, I think it's an underestimation. 90% of the thoughts we have today are exactly the same thoughts we had yesterday. Right? All variations on one rather perverted theme. I mean, mine. And so what we're doing here that is really quite remarkable is we're always meditating, right? I've mentioned this earlier. We're always practicing. Basically, we're always practicing samsara. When that's, that's our default mode meditation. In fact, you could say we have accomplished samsara. Right? Maybe I'll point to specimen a, I have accomplished samsara confusion. Why? Because I practice it all the time. Every time I recite one of the self referential discursive mantras I'm practicing samsara. Whenever things referred back to me, I'm distracted. I'm practicing samsara. And so the genius of the Tantra is it takes on this unconscious process of self referencing these discursive contractive self referencing mantras, and it replaces them. So instead of having this constant loop, this narrative loop, because this, I mean, again, there's so much going on here. When we think about the self sets altogether, right? I mean, neuroscience will tell you this physics will tell you this the wisdom traditions will tell you this all in residence here. The sense of self the ego is a total fabrications confabulation. It's a construct called the compound sounds good. It's a total construct. The ego yourself sense when you think you are is a total construct. And how is it constructed mostly by narrative? Ego is a narrative. It's an ongoing, relentless storyline. And so basically, these these particular storylines are iterated expressed in the discursive chatter of our background mind, which keeps keeps the some scar you know that the samsaric mind is clicking away at samsaric mantras, depending on who you talk to anywhere from 10 to 60,000 times a day, clicking away and reciting these. And so this is what puts us deeper into sleep into non lucidity in the archetypal sense. This is how we unconsciously unwittingly practice confusion practice samsara. So mantra is fantastically effective efficacious in terms of replacing the unconscious process of samsara. Distraction. With the conscious practice of you can say really nirvana of awakening is every time you're distracted, literally etymologically pulling apart from reality pulling apart from the present moment. Every time you remember, your healing, joining and mantras are designed in this capacity to heal. So I'm gonna just mention the other two. I mean, these are three of the main principle kind of ingredients. One mantra protects the mind from distraction number two, I'll get back to this next time. Mantra protects us protects the mind from ordinary appearances. And this is this is super big deal. One of the reasons we suffer is because a parent's is not in harmony with reality. We think we exist while we appear to exist, but in essence, we don't. We think death is real. Well, appears to be in an unexamined way, right? That seems to be real, but it's not. Death is also an illusion because if you don't exist, who dies, what dies and so as we'll see, in the really sophisticated way mantra protects from ordinary parents it actually helps us identify with more evolved dimensions of our being because when we read sacred sounds, we are in fact, almost literally tuning in to the awakened sacred quality of reality by inviting invoking these qualities that awakened mind within us the mantras work, both interiorly and exteriorly.
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