{"id":180,"date":"2020-06-22T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manihouse.org\/dev\/en\/?post_type=download&#038;p=180"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:50:38","slug":"chenrezig-sadhana","status":"publish","type":"download","link":"https:\/\/manihouse.org\/en\/download\/chenrezig-sadhana\/","title":{"rendered":"Chenrezig Sadhana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadhana is a Sanskrit term used to refer to a daily spiritual practice. Sadhana represents a disciplined surrendering of the ego, in which the practitioner uses tools such as meditation and chanting on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>The four-arm Chenrezig is Bodhisattva with his white stainless body and two front arms are folded towards the chest and clasping a wish fulfulling gem, the other two arms are raised to shoulder leve, with the right hand holding a crystal rosary and the helft hand holding a white lotus.<\/p>\n<p>The complete sadhana of Chenrezig (deity) is the embodiment of bodhicitta of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.\u00a0 Chenrezig is one of the most popular deity of Tibet and the one most known in the West.\u00a0 Chenrezig represents the loving and compassionate potential of the mind, and by visualization of the recitation of a mantra enables a practitioner to experience of one\u2019s true nature of mind.\u00a0 This is the process of purifying one\u2019s mind from the veils that obscure it and developing the awakened mind.\u00a0 One can also gain a deep sense of samatha and develop strong compassion towards six realms and liberation from samsara.\u00a0 In addition, it helps the practitioner to cultivate virtues and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>In the practice of Chenrezig, it consists of four parts which is preliminary prayers, phase of creation, phase of completion and conclusion. The preliminary prayers include with taking refuge and generating Bodhicitta.\u00a0 This is followed by the phase of creation which refers to meditation where one visualizes the appearance of Chenrezig.\u00a0 The phase of completion refers to the end of meditation during which one dissolves appearances into emptiness.\u00a0 The conclusion is dedicating the merit and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The heart mantra of Chenrezig is OM MANI PADME HUNG.\u00a0 It is used to bless and purify the bad karma, bad conducts and obscurations of beings of the six realms in order to liberate from samsara and approach the path of enlightenment.\u00a0 Sadhana Chenrezig is very effectice and easy to practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":582,"template":"","download_cat":[2],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manihouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/download\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manihouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/download"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manihouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/download"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manihouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manihouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"download_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manihouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/download_cat?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}