A mantra for today...

By Vichara

Ok before the Thought of the day let us quietly recite our mantra. Wait, you don’t have a mantra? I thought you had a mantra? Let me suggest a couple for this morning. How about “meka meka hein-e ho…ooops, that’s Pee Wee Herman’s. Oooga booga booga busca…sorry that’s a song. Reciting a mantra prior to any meditation or if you are sitting to ponder questions is a helpful tool to focus the attention to a single point and reduce the chatter. By either repeating out loud or in your mind will aid in slowing down the breathing creating a more relaxed feeling. I am partial to the one tattooed in Sanskrit on my arm, Om Mani Padme Hung. But “Om” is a good one if you want something simple and easy to remember. One thing you will notice over time is that by using one you will create an island of calm that you can travel to anytime you need or want. But for today how about this one…”it will be a good day”.


edify • \ED-uh-fye\ • verb
: to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift; also : enlighten, inform
Example Sentence:
"There's nothing like a film festival for renewing your faith in the medium, in the possibilities of movies to surprise, delight and edify us." (Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 1, 2010)
Did you know?
The Latin noun "aedes," meaning "house" or "temple," is the root of "aedificare," a verb meaning "to erect a house." Generations of speakers built on that meaning, and by the Late Latin period, the verb had gained the figurative sense of "to instruct or improve spiritually." The word eventually passed through Anglo-French before Middle English speakers adopted it as "edify" during the 14th century. Two of its early meanings, "to build" and "to establish," are now considered archaic; the only current sense of "edify" is essentially the same as that figurative meaning in Late Latin, "to instruct and improve in moral and religious matters."