I feel like this really misses the point of what a dharani is and why something like this might be something to chant, by which I mean you get what’s literally going on but are missing the big picture by taking it too literally. I feel a bit like I’m presenting an impressionist painting and your complaint is that it’s not realistic enough, which is true, but also not the point.
Maybe it would help to know that we think early dharanis just had a clear meaning like “please make it so bad stuff doesn’t happen” and this got lost over time, so in making a new one I start from the literal but in a way that allows it to morph over time to become sounds for an intention. Also compare the two rationalists litanies to similar religious ones. This is meant to have the same energy, but a different form.
I would have thought that the critique would be that it is too realistic.
I would imagine that crystallising or honing a already existing and pinpointed feeling would be quite different than starting from a muddled and unformed one and hoping that one solidifies.
I feel like this really misses the point of what a dharani is and why something like this might be something to chant, by which I mean you get what’s literally going on but are missing the big picture by taking it too literally. I feel a bit like I’m presenting an impressionist painting and your complaint is that it’s not realistic enough, which is true, but also not the point.
Maybe it would help to know that we think early dharanis just had a clear meaning like “please make it so bad stuff doesn’t happen” and this got lost over time, so in making a new one I start from the literal but in a way that allows it to morph over time to become sounds for an intention. Also compare the two rationalists litanies to similar religious ones. This is meant to have the same energy, but a different form.
I would have thought that the critique would be that it is too realistic.
I would imagine that crystallising or honing a already existing and pinpointed feeling would be quite different than starting from a muddled and unformed one and hoping that one solidifies.