This episode is a recording of a class on The Meditation Course on Thursday, 15 August.

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In this class I explained about mantra and we practiced a variety of mantra meditations.

A mantra is something you say aloud or in your mind that you repeat.

Mantra meditation is a truly ancient practice that goes back to the Rig Veda, which was written about 1,500 years before Christ. In mantra meditation, we focus on our own voice, either our spoken voice or our inner voice. Meditators often get together and repeat the words in a group, chant them, or sing them.

Mantra meditation is a focused attention meditation, making it a mindfulness meditation, though it is rarely taught by mindfulness teachers who prefer to focus on the breath. It is particularly useful for students who find focusing on the breath uncomfortable.