“How can I overcome my daily challenges with chanting
or meditation?”
Tan Ajahn: Chanting is like reciting the mantra, only
that chanting is longer. Instead of one word, you chant many words, like the
discourse of the Buddha
in Pāli, for instance.
When you concentrate your mind on chanting, then you
can stop your mind from thinking aimlessly. So you can find some peace/calm
from chanting. But you might not go as deeply as you would with your mantra or
with mindfulness of the breath. Once you know how to chant continuously, you
can use chanting to overcome your challenges.
When your mind feels bad, when you have to face
something that you don’t like to face, you can keep chanting inside to stop
your mind from reacting negatively to the things that you have to face. And the
same is true if someone makes you mad; you just keep on chanting. When you
chant, you will forget the incident that made you mad, and then the anger will
disappear.
When you are sad, when you have lost someone, you can
use chanting to stop your sadness. Just keep on chanting until you forget about
the person that you have lost. Once it is no longer in your mind, you will no
longer be sad. So you can use this as a method for facing your challenges. But
this is not as good as using insight because if you can use insight, you can
eliminate all the difficulties that you have in facing your challenges. You can
face your challenges calmly and peacefully.
By Ajaan Suchart Abhijāto
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