Hey Dhamma practitioners/ meditators/Buddhists, what’s up with all the kirtan?
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The only cross over I know of is there are some Buddhists teachers who are friends with Bhakti Yoga types (eg: David Nichtern freinds with Krishna Das). That said, there are several analogous practices in Buddhism, which use similar mechanisms, but are distinct in several ways.
I don’t know how much detail you’re interested in, but Buddhist practices similar to kirtan can be found especially in the yogic song traditions. Three main types are Doha, Vajragiti, and Caryagiti. Although traditions categorise variously. One can look at this in many ways...
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Right. So much of the Vajrayana praxis is identical with Hindu yogatantra. Yantra/bijja-dhyana-mantra/puja/Guru worship/transformation of gross physical elements into progressively subtler elements culminating in a totally spiritualized (rainbow) body/
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Not identical, but very similar in many ways, sure.
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How one explores these practices depends on why you’re interested. Yogic songs can be used like kirtan to invoke feelings/states etc, or they can be used as a sort of energetic massage (similar to pranayama), or they can be used to codify teachings....and so on Blah blah blahpic.twitter.com/45DMLqHUzc
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I think the more you know the better. That way you can see when bloggers are FOS. I read a blog last night comparing Buddha & Jesus and all it was doing was throwing shade on Buddha. It just was not objective.
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