Mantras to fight delusions and defilements (FD10072020-2)

Twenty delusions
beligence , resentment , concealment , spite , jealousy , miserliness , deceit , dissimulation, haughtiness , harmfulness , shameless . non-embarassment , lethargy , excitement, non-faith , laziness , non-conscientiousness , forgetfulness , non-introspection, non-alertness , distractive

above all delusions are originate from anger , attachment , pride , ignorance , doubt and deluded views . and all these 6 delusions are born from greed , hatred and ignorance.

if you have this kind of delusions and wanted to change your bad habit , you can try recite the mantra below . however unlike previous post i put, fighting delusions is really difficult so you may need to recite up to one million times or more of the same mantra on the same mala beads. i personally are trying with reciting 100,000 times per mantra only , the result was ok for me but it feel like applying an emergency first aid only on the wound . and take longer time for total healing. you can start with baby step by reciting one mala per day (which is 108 times) and increase it as time goes on.

if leaving delusions and not remedy it, it will actually grow and breed other types of delusions . for example, you may be only have a mild jealous  but as the year pass on, you are not only seriously jealous but you also become haughtiness , laziness, resentment and distractive as well . and soon enough you don't care what is going to happen to others anymore. 

 There are quite a lot of mantras that help with fighting delusions. i'll just name a few here which is really stated.

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Defilements

There seem to has connection between delusion and defilements, therefore i am listing the 108 defilements mention in the website here.
source: http://www.virtuescience.com/defilements.html
defilements:
ostentatiousness , grudge, gambling, ingratitude, dipsomania, ambition, dominance, faithlessness, manipulation, stinginess, pessimism, hostility, abuse, debasement, sexual lust, sarcasm, humiliation,     jealousy, gluttony, unruliness, hurt, cruelty, unkindness, laziness, envy, indifference, negativity, furtiveness
sadism, enviousness, derision, falseness, high-handedness, know-it-all, rage, aggression, rapacity,    effrontery, disrespectfulness, hard-heartedness,
eagerness for power, lying, insidiousness, self-denial, inattentiveness, contempt, wrath, haughtiness
greed for money, seducement, vindictiveness, insatiability,
voluptuousness, excessiveness, censoriousness, dissatisfaction,
egoism, ignorance, hatred, greed, impudence, imposture, cursing, imperiousness, lecherousness    callousness, malignancy, torment, intolerance, blasphemy, shamelessness, irresponsibility
obsession, prejudice, arrogance, violent temper, garrulity, dogmatism, presumption, intransigence
oppression, prodigality, lack of comprehension, obstinacy, pride, conceitedness, delusion,    quarrelsomeness, self-hatred, violence, vanity, hypocrisy, stubbornness, baseness, pretence, mercilessness
disrespect, ridicule, masochism,  tyranny, capriciousness, deceit, anger, discord, calculation, unyielding    desire for fame, deception


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1. Manjushri Mantra
Mantra : Om Ah Ra Pa Ca Na Dhih
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4195GA-aSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8NTMRgDso&list=PLjUJNKDN2ecAPrgTppzmEz_Hq-bWKF9T7
- chanted for inner wisdom and worldly knowledge.helps in learning, develop intelligence and good memory. enhancing debating, writing, memory and wisdom.
- help develop wisdom and cut delusions. Manjushri are said to be the foremost in buddha wisdom.
- suitable for students to increase their intelligent.
source: http://redzambala.com/buddhism/buddha-aspects/manjushri-the-prince-of-wisdom.html
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/596445544369882498/
 

2.Medicine Buddha

mantra: "Tadyatha Om bhaisajye bhaisajye maha bhaisajye ranza samudgate svaha"
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fVRzgZit2M&feature=related
video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oikIw01nzL4
image url: http://resources.tsemtulku.com/free-downloads/buddhas-and-bodhisattvas.html?nggpage=3
excellent mantra for health and long life purpose including psychology issues. May even help you with sickness you think causes by demon, spirits harm and so on.
you can bless your drinking water with medicine buddha mantra. it was recommended for those who are sick to bless their drinking with 108 recitation everyday until they recover. Or you can keep playing the medicine buddha mantra songs for the person to listen until the person is heal.
you can also recite the mantra 108 times on behalf of the person but i think it is still better for the person to do his/her own recitation as this is much better. from my own understanding, there is a difference in term of blessings accrue in term of one who recite it with one happen to hear it. you can always recite extra for the person for more blessings and faster recovery.
* do consider of also reciting vajrapani mantra.Vajrapani is a protector and thus reciting his mantra does help with your life obstacles . vajrapani mantra is also helpful with weather situation such as too many rain or your places need rain. vajrapani mantra also helps to clear negativity in your life . in fact it is said that one should recite 1 million times vajrapani mantra before starting medicine buddha retreat.since there are many versions of vajrapani mantra, i'll not listed it here but you can find it easily from other websites and youtube.
medicine buddha sutra: http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/en/displayimage.php?album=20&pid=159#top_display_media
another medicine buddha sutra: http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/medbudsutra.pdf
- This is a health mantra , but also said to be helpful in getting jobs and activity sucessful.
source : http://www.fpmt.org/images/stories/teachers/zopa/advice/pdf/Fires_Practices_for_dispelling.pdf

3. vajrapani mantra
mantra: Om Ah Vajrapani Hum Hum Phat
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm0i_ZDUOA8
- break delusions.

4. 10th red tara (Lilian too tibetan cosmic magic series - 21 tara oracle )
mantra: om tare tuttare ture sabar mara padma daya hum peh soha
video: not available
- tara the dispeller of sorrow . destroy all internal demons within you (such as your own negative emotion). slice your depression, anger, jealousies and frustratioin. cut delusion and mentally-generated problems.good to recite if you are feeling depress or upset over something.
note: check the book if you need to know this is the mantra you should recite.
Author note: definitely help in dealing over anger and also sad feeling you never consider as sorrow. and it seem to help a bit with hallucination or if you are over imagine things . since this is tara mantra, you should start at a comfortable level. otherwise you can recite green tara mantra to deal with your delusion.

5.   Chenrezig /Avalokiteshvara mantra
Mantra : Om Mani Padme Hum   (108 times / 1 mala everyday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFf-2VKhNLk&feature=related
- will always have wealth , the means of living.
- your wealth will not be stolen or taken away by others.
- mani mantra is said to have additional 15 benefits (read the source for detail) 
- purify delusion related to 6 negative emotions.

Author note: this is a very subtle purification. you will hardly even notice that your delusion was purify by the mani mantra.
source: source: http://gadensamtenling.org/PDFs/Text/OmManiFurther.PDF
source: http://www.lamayeshe.com/index.php?sect=article&id=648&chid=1632

6.  Tara Pacify Confusion
mantra: Om tare tuttare sarva cittakulani santi kuru svaha
- to pacify confusion.
Author note: seem to be useful for work related if you easily get confuse over documents, conversation and even direction. this is tara mantra so it will help ripen your karma at early stage. and also seem to help reminding you that the reality are not seem to be like what other people said.
 and also help in situation when you have the wrong thoughts .
source: http://www.visiblemantra.org/white-tara.html

7. White Mahakala
mantra: Om Guru Mahakala Hari Ni Sa Siddhi Dza
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbQR3_Elag8
- mahakala is  a dharma protector in which white mahakala are known for specializing in wealth. gaining material and spiritual wealth (including buddha dharma), purifying karma for experience poverty and remove obstacle that block prosperity. support the comfort and economic well being of buddhists. quelling difficulties and obstacles as well as providing necessities and wealth . defend dharma from corruption and degeneration and forces that are hostile to it.keep the site of ritual free from impure thoughts and actions. guide and protect the individual from all kinds of deceptions and delusion.
Author note: also deal with corruption and it is said that demon will not enter area where has mahakala blessing. white mahakala help remove poverty and bring abundance to everyone. for author, it seem that white mahakala mantra help with life necessities such especially kitchen ware. (probably this is the reason why white mahakala is popular as kitchen god). Author think that white mahakala mantra also help with life necessities such as public transport.
source:http://www.vajrasecrets.com/white-mahakala-chakra
source: http://www.thranguhk.org/buddhism/en_mahakala.html

8. Vajrayogini mantra
mantra:  http://geshezopa.blogspot.my/2008/04/mantras-for-recitation.html
video: didn't manage to find the right one.
- deal with attachment, defilement, and help with enlightenment.
- pacify problem, increase, merit and wealth, attainments and general harmony. ability to control our mind that create unhappiness knowingly and unknowingly. clear negative energy and protect from negative influences. even feng shui can be corrected with placing vajarayogini statue. good for people who are easily distracted with lack of time.increase wisdom.
Author note: this is one mantra the author try recite 100,000 to improve author work efficiency. However it is too late for the author intended goal (other incident happen before the author manage to complete this 100,000 mantra recitation). the author do really feel sense of bliss from this mantra and certain defilements such as tendency to has a tyranny personality is greatly reduce.
source: http://geshezopa.blogspot.my/2008/04/mantras-for-recitation.html
 http://resources.tsemtulku.com/buddhas/higher-tantra/vajrayogini.html

9. Acala- mantra of fire realm
mantra: namah sarva tathagatabhyah , sarva mukhebhyah , sarvatha trat, canda, maha rosana, kham, khahi, khahi, sarva vighanam, hum , trat , ham , mam
- one of the four acala mantra. burn away all our defilements.
Author note: This mantra seem to be very specific.
source: http://waynedhamma.blogspot.my/2007/05/acala-vidyaraja-immovable-one.html



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do consider going with heruka mantra as this will empower the blessings .

This link has a very useful information about each of the 20 delusions .
http://www.bliemkern.com/Magenta/21_Delusions.html


We are not compelled to meditate by some outside agent, by other people, or by God. Rather, just as we are responsible for our own suffering, so are we solely responsible for our own cure. We have created the situation in which we find ourselves, and it is up to us to create the circumstances for our release. Therefore, as suffering permeates our life, we have to do something in addition to our regular daily routine. This "something" is spiritual practice or, in other words, meditation.
–Lama Zopa Rinpoche
The Purpose of Meditation
=quoted from www.fpmt.org =

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*All credits of the information in this page & post goes to the respective author and publisher provided in the source link.

*consider going for mala bead . a standard mala bead should consist of minimum 108 beads (that represent 108 types of worry ,  some mala had additional beads for error or mistakes in your recitation )  . therefore it is good as helping you to remember how many you have recited . mala bracelet is also good but you may from time to time lost count of how many you have recited and had to restart all over again. as for the proper way of using mala and wearing it and taking care of your mala beads, its best that you get advice from proper instructors. you may want to consider ask a guru or monk in temple to bless your mala. The more you recite, the more your mala protective powers will grow to the point it can become a very strong protective talisman.


*Blow your mala bead when you have finish recite mantra for the day as this mean for your personal protection.

*You may need another mantra which is call heruka vajrayogini mantra which helps to make your mala blessings get stronger as we are living in a degenerative time (meaning negative karma getting stronger with each passing time) . This mantra is said to be the more degenerative it is, the more powerful this mantra will be.

* if one face obstacle while reciting mantra, the solution is to do sur offering to wandering ghost. another option is to light an incense (such as sandalwood incense, where spirits obtain their food through smell) and put it on the windows side , or outside one house as charity food to wandering ghost. then obstacle one is facing will be dispel. therefore buddhist are being encourage to do sur offering before they start their daily mantra practise .