Apparently the Dalai Lama has stated that electric prayer wheels work just as good as the manual ones. His Holiness didn't stop there though and stated that the animated gif image prayer wheels that a person may see on certain websites are also fully functional. Not being done the earthly incarnation of Chenrezig (in Tibetan, Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit) stated that any computer that has a mantra saved on its hard drive, then functions as a prayer wheel and sends out the energy from the mantra.

I see no reason why the RGT forum on 2+2 shouldn't get in on this action.

Om Mani Padme Hum

Literally translated the mantra means something like "O, the Jewel Lotus!" This is the mantra of Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of compassion.

So the old school prayers wheels were hollow cylinders and they would pack as many mantras written on papers as they could inside, the more the better. And spinning the prayer wheel was to have the same effect as chanting the mantra - you are sending out the "good" vibrations as it were. The more mantras in the wheel, the stronger the vibrations you send out. Now, with all the digital stuff, it has become common to use electronic means and get as many mantras as you can into whatever it is (in Tibetan Buddhism they also fill statues of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, though in a little different manner). Today I came across a site where they used DVDs and made prayer wheels with 84,348,750,000 mantra.

I mean think about it - an accomplished meditator may take a full 80 year life to say 100,000,000 million mantras. In just a few spins you have generated the mantras and merit of several lifetimes! Awesome.

These folks also have prayer wheels, though they don't seem to contain as many mantras - don't know whats up with that, perhaps they aren't using the same compression technology.

Mind tricks are more fun....or are they?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1SX2--eQe4

How many prayers is this worth?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eSN8Cwit_s

Ugh ... christians.

Don't give up.

We'll make a God loving Buddho-Christian out of you yet.

I find that offensive and disrespectful.

I am just kidding around. No disrespect intended.

edit: So I have a real life man crush on marky mark... does that make me a bad christian???

Then I apologize.

But it was just a joke.

I didn't care about the posting of random videos - whatever.

Its the post of Spledour saying she wants to convert me or something. I find that in bad taste. I am sure its understandable considering how much flack the atheists get for supposedly trying to convert chrisitians. Also, it feeds into my pet peeve about most christians, that this the hubris, pride and vanity that some christitans seem to exude by imagining themselves as a certain elect class in spirituality.

Anyhow, as for Marky Mark. Yes, that makes you are a bad christian - you should convert to Mark Wahlberg. The difference is subtle but important.

Mockers gunna Mock

Maybe I was being a bit sensitive. But l, then again - probably not.

I know its silly and fully expected some wise cracks, but the insinuation that I need to be converted to another belief got my goat.

How hypocritical - splendour is always crowing about atheists that she claims are disrespectful and then makes a comment like that. Says atheist have mental health issues, and then claims the devil pulled her steering wheel, demons at a poker table - so maybe her hypocritical nature should be expected.

Now I get agitated in a thread about compassion. Whatever, I guess sometimes the most compassionate thing isn't always the lovey-dovey mushy thing - Tilopa hit Naropa with his sandal.