Mantra For Compassion
A mantra meditation practice for Compassion. Using the Sanskrit phrase/mantra Karuna Hum, meaning I am Compassion. This practice will guide to a calm and easeful state that will help dispell agitation, fustration, and overal angst. Compassion asks us to find acknowledgement, understanding, acceptences, healing and good faith. Give yourself time to find deep empathy, and ease. This practice asks for a strong focus on repetition, and is best done when repeating the mantra outloud.
Transcript
Hi,
This is Chris Muska here with the meditation for you.
This meditation we will be doing a mantra meditation.
Mantra is a word or a phrase traditionally in Sanskrit but really can be from any language that has a meaning to it,
A vibration of importance to it that we repeat several times.
So it leaves a vibratory impression onto our system which helps us embody and mindfully approach that concept or that meaning of the mantra.
And in the mantra meditation we will be doing it through repetition which in Sanskrit is called japas,
J-A-P-A-S.
And then this repeating of the mantra,
As I said,
It's where we then get that vibratory imprint onto our system.
It also helps to raise our vibration as a mantra is something that helps to uplift us,
Inspire us,
Motivate us,
And ground us at the same time,
Stabilizing us at the same time.
So it's not going to pull us down lower into a heavier state.
It might help us process though some things that are low vibrating within our own system or our own mindset.
The mantra today in this meditation that I will be using is karuna hum.
And karuna is the Sanskrit word for compassion.
So compassion,
The way how we sometimes often think about it,
Is just being nice to somebody when they're hurt.
And it's actually something that's deeper than that.
It's recognizing a struggle and then recognizing that you're also having a struggle in some way or some form in relationship to that person's struggle or your own struggle.
But it's in either way of recognizing that struggle exists and that when you recognize struggle exists you have really one but action is to do something about it.
To help alleviate it in some kind which is often from a kind act,
A responsible act,
A caring act,
A supportive act.
So when we think of compassion it's something that's much more deeper than just being nice to someone as it's recognizing a collective energy where one person might be suffering or in struggle more.
But that then gives us reason in some way or some form to do our best to help that person,
Support that person from being present with them rather than being above them.
So in this mantra practice I like to repeat my mantras 108 times.
That's the number that is sacred to many spiritual traditions.
And in honor of that I like to do 108 but I believe that if we repeat something three times we can memorize it usually.
If we repeat something 99 times or 100 times it really leaves an impression and mark on ourselves.
And so 108 just kind of for me links it to a spiritual tradition and practice an important number that has much meaning that you can research yourself on.
But also for me just this real strong amount of repetition to really feel the vibrational effect of the word of what we're doing.
So let's find our upright seat cross-legged or kneeling.
I will be repeating the mantra out loud and you can repeat that with me.
I use a mala beaded bracelet.
You can also use a mala beaded necklace.
Those are usually 108 and the necklace or a bracelet is about 27 which is a divisible of 108.
So I'll be using my bracelet that has 27 beads on it.
That means we'll do four rounds of the mantra that leads up to 108.
And I'll just stop at each one of those four rounds as a nice kind of little check in point and then we'll do the next 27.
And so it's not that daunting as you think it might feel right now to repeat something 108 times.
When we do it with this intention in the space of meditation it's very lovely.
So as I said finding that nice seat upright spine.
If you do have your own beaded bracelet,
Mala bracelet,
You're welcome to follow along with your finger movements with me.
If you do not repeat the mantra out loud with me so that you can fully hear and feel the vibration of the mantra.
Karuna Hum.
I am compassion.
Take an exhale grounding down and inhale to sitting tall.
And let's begin.
Inhale.
Karuna Hum.
Karuna Hum.
Karuna Hum.
Karuna Hum.
Karuna Hum.
Karuna Hum.
Karuna Hum.
Karuna hum struggles with each of the six languages Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
That's our first round.
Let's take a pause.
Take a breath.
So compassion enables us to connect to one another.
Not from a place of hierarchy or judgement,
But from a place of relating to each other.
And that if we can relate one variation of our personal struggle to another's struggle,
We're much more inclined to actually authentically want to connect and help and support each other.
And to that person that might be struggling a little bit more,
You're able to then have more of a reason to connect and care and help.
So in this next round,
Just think about extending that compassion just to yourself.
And let's begin.
Inhale karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna hum.
Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Pause,
That was our second round.
Feeling that sensation of compassion to yourself.
We suffer in small ways and in large ways.
In ways from our own choices and actions.
And in ways from the actions and choices from others.
And if we never stop and just hold ourselves kindly,
Supportively,
With care,
We often then struggle more.
As we go into our third round now,
Let's extend compassion to someone you love.
You might not even know that they're struggling in some way,
But they are.
Maybe you might know it and you can send that compassion to that specific kind of thread.
Or you're just sending it out to them because they're on your mind.
Let's start our third round.
Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna Hum Karuna HumODOR Michael Robbie Path,
Finishing our third round.
Just feel that offering of compassion to that loved one.
And now let's go big with our fourth and final round to 108,
So extending compassion out to all beings,
Knowing that all beings have different stories and different struggles,
And so we can imagine some and we have to extend it out to almost the unimaginable.
And that some beings are so struggling that they're causing quite harm onto others,
And some beings are being casualties of that harm.
And either way,
It's all harm,
It's all struggle,
It's all suffering in some way,
And it all needs the energy of compassion to heal and to grow and evolve,
To come to our higher selves.
So extending compassion from ourself to all beings everywhere,
Including the ones we don't understand or don't like.
And let's start our fourth round.
Inhale,
Karuna Hum.
Karuna Hum.
Ku Pledge Karuna Hum,
African Ku Prince Karuna Hum.
Yousuf Laure boat Next up,
We are going to talk about how the last nine years of our traonte have been as a children's custom.
These characters used to talk and be told about their life through their language.
And the lives of trying to make this Konan Karuna hum Karuna hum karuna hum karuna hum Last three.
Karuna hum karuna hum Inhale.
Exhale.
Sit tall.
And let's just sit here for a few moments in this wonderful,
Compassionate space.
With compassion for ourself.
With compassion for one that we love.
And with compassion for all beings everywhere.
And with compassion for all beings everywhere.
And with compassion for all beings everywhere.
And with compassion for all beings everywhere.
And with compassion for all beings everywhere.
And with compassion for all beings everywhere.
And with compassion for all beings everywhere.
And allowing that wonderful breath of yours to deepen.
And allowing that wonderful breath of yours to deepen.
And allowing that wonderful breath of yours to deepen.
And bringing our palms together in front of our hearts.
And then let's rub our palms together.
And as we rub our palms together we create some warmth.
And then place those warm hands over the eyes.
Take a nice inhale and exhale through the mouth.
Letting the hands just drape over the mouth,
The throat,
The heart.
And then come back palm to palm.
And then come back palm to palm.
And bowing down to yourself.
Great thanks.
Great gratitude to yourself.
To your heart,
That sacred flame,
That spark of life within you.
And bowing with gratitude and respect always to Mother Earth,
Our foundation.
Thank you so much for joining me for this meditation.
Be well.
Let's compassion to you all.
