Prayer wheel

A prayer wheel, Mani - mill or Mani wheel (of Tib ma ni 'khor lo ) is a wheel or a roller containing on a paper roll printed prayers or mantras or externally decorated with such.

Importance

In Tibetan Buddhism prayer wheels are rotated in order to link physical activity and mental- spiritual content with each other.

A principal aim of this action and basic method of Vajrayana is to integrate all aspects of real life, so even the simplest physical actions, such as turning a prayer wheel, into the path to enlightenment. Various stages of spiritual vision can continue this form of spiritual practice.

Turning the prayer wheels used by Buddhist belief to accumulate good karma. A simple motivation for this practice is the desire to entertain in the rotation of the prayer wheel that all the mantras contained in the roll effect by the rotation for the benefit of sentient beings, eliminate their suffering and bring them happiness.

A further motivation for this practice is to visualize during the rotation of the prayer wheel (mentally to project ) that all mantras contained therein radiate while rotating light to all sentient beings, eliminate their suffering and dissolve bad karma.

An advanced, the highest point of view of Buddhism approximate practice of turning a prayer wheel is that, while turning the prayer wheel to focus on the fact that Wheeling, the act of turning, as well as the spinning prayer wheel, along with the mantras and prayers contained therein inseparable from one, are non-dual nature in its origin.

In addition to those set in motion by human power prayer wheels, there are also those that are driven by wind or water power.

Phrase

From practice to the long and rotating a prayer wheel is almost always used pejoratively adjective derives mantra, which describes the monotonous prolonged repetition of a thing or the continual insistence on the opinion of the critic untenable view.