How Do We Practise OM MANI PEME HUNG?

If someone tells you, when anger or irritation arises in the mind, to chant OM MANI PEME HUNG as an antidote, they are delusional. An antidote is just a temporary measure. This is the realm of belief.

Knowing what OM MANI PEME HUNG actually means is practical practice. The syllables OM MANI PEME HUNG represent the six perfections of generosity, patience, morality, discipline, concentration/meditation, and transcendent realisation.

Even knowing what OM MANI PEME HUNG means, there are two approaches. One is where we practise OM MANI PEME hoping to realise HUNG, while the other starts with realising HUNG and using OM MANI PEME to sustain HUNG as the finality of emptiness.

Actually, even if we said, OM MANI PEME NUM but knew what it represents, this is still a superior practice.

There are two types of people in the world: believers and knowers.

This is the difference between theistic (duality) and non-theistic (non-duality) approaches to life (and even Buddhism). In the theistic traditions, we believe in a figurehead, and in their words. In the non-theistic traditions, we do not believe either in a figurehead or the words; we test them to realise them.

Teaching must be tested. Teachers must be tested. OM MANI PEME HUNG must be tested.

Test: a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, revealing the strength or quality of someone or something by putting them under strain.

OM MANI PEME HUNG
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