The same six syllables, carried on a melody. For a great many people that difference decides whether they keep the practice up.

This is the sung edition of Om Mani Padme Hum, the mantra of compassion recited across the Buddhist world for centuries. A recitation asks for concentration. A melody carries you, which makes a longer sitting considerably easier and makes the mantra far more likely to stay with you through the day.

Use it either way. Sing along with it as a practice in its own right, or leave it playing quietly through a room, a car or a treatment space.

It suits anyone whose attention wanders during silent practice, anyone who has tried mantra work and found it dry, and households with children, who tend to pick up a sung mantra without being asked to.

The spoken recitation is also available.

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