--- In [email protected], "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder about this "meaningless sounds" business. At the preparatory > lecture, I always used to say the mantras were "sounds the effects of which > are known," or "words selected for their sound quality," or something like that. > I never said, "meaningless sounds" and I wonder whether using that phrase > was ever an official instruction. It's a very unfortunate phrase, in my opinion. > The reference to the sounds being meaningless as I recall was used in a specific context that it wasn't important to know the meanings of such sounds in order for them to work. If pressed, the teachers would say that the mantras had no defined meaning other than as a vehicle for transcendence. At least the way I heard it , it was a good enough explanation for me for many years.
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