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Tibetan Buddhists now have the exciting opportunity to pray using just their home computer.
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has said that having the mantra on your computer works the same as a traditional Mani wheel. As the digital image spins around on your hard drive, it sends the peaceful prayer of compassion to all directions and purifies the area.
The Digital Prayer Wheel page gives a number of ways of doing this. Firstly, using the disk drive itself:
To set your very own prayer wheel in motion, all you have to do is download this mantra to your computer's hard disk. Once downloaded, your hard disk drive will spin the mantra for you. Nowadays hard disk drives spin their disks somewhere between 3600 and 7200 revolutions per minute, with a typical rate of 5400 rpm. Given those rotation speeds, you'll soon be purifying loads of negative karma.
Alternatively, you can an animated GIF of a prayer wheel, a Java applet or a Javascript scrolling banner reading OM MANI PADME HUNG
on your web site. Thirdly, you can download a screensaver--they have them for MacOS, Windows and DOS. (via Grouse.)
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1: Posted by: Kathryn Cramer | October 15, 2003 2:45 PM
These are actually rather soothing, I found. When I get a little more enlightened, I may add one to my blog template.
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