Tara: Goddess of Peace

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This six-word chant helps us to be centered and calm, bringing us into a more meditative, grounded state. It is an invocation to the Green Tara, a Tibetan Goddess who protects us and grants attainments. The chant asks for her blessing, and grounds it in your heart.

Learn the simple chant here, to use whenever you need healing or a more serene state of mind and heart:

This chant may be sung on a single prolonged note, or simply chanted aloud.

OM TARA TUTTARE, TURE SO HA

(OME TAR-AH TWO-TAR-AH, TWO-RAY SO HA)

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 green tara mantra 绿度母心经

This is one of the most mesmerizing version of green tara mantra that i've come across. May all who listens to this be blessed and thier wishes fullfilled swiftly. Homage to the swift liberator.

Below is a short description of Tara which I have taken off the net:
Green Tara (Dölma) embodies the female wisdom and activity of the mind. She is also called the 'Mother of All Buddhas,' and has many peaceful and frightening or wrathful emanation forms.
The legend of Tara's origin is that Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, was looking down from his heaven on the world of suffering beings, and he wept to see that more and more of them were in pain. From the tears streaming down his face two Taras were born, a peaceful white one from the left and a fierce green one from the right.
Her attributes are light blue upala-flowers . She is adorned with jewels and precious cloth, sitting on a white moon-disk. Her right leg is outside the lotus flower, which symbolizes her continuous activity, alertness and her determination for quick active help. Her hands are in the gesture of granting protection and freeing from fears.
As the first Dalai Lama put it, just by being called to help, she instantaneously saves the faithful from attacks by the following eight calamities
: lions (pride);
wild elephants (delusions);
forest fires (hatred);
snakes (envy);
robbers (fanatical views);
prisons (avarice);
floods (lust);
demons (doubts)
The followers of Green Tara believe that her special powers will help overcome dangers, fears, and anxieties, and that she will grant wishes. She is compassion in action and is particularly worshiped for her ability to overcome the most difficult situations.

May all who listens to this gets she swift help she has always given me ^^

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OM TARA TUTTARE, TURE SO HA

(OME TAR-AH TWO-TAR-AH, TWO-RAY SO HA)

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buddhism goddess, are representing perfection which is our true nature, Ancient Greek goddess/god are human in there developing stage and stories full of drama... I am some where in between happy to see how far i have come and how far i still have to go

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Last week, using The Goddess Tarot created by Kris Waldherr, I did a 3 card reading for myself.  One card was Tara
"Tibetans believe that the goddess Tara has the power to heal all sorrows and grant all wishes. Tara is honored as the protectress against the many fears that block men and women from living in happiness and harmony.
Meanings: Innocence which protects.  New beginnings,optimism,innocent trust.
Second card was Chang O  Contemplation
Chinese moon goddess was exiled to the moon because of her need to obtain divinity.  With a white hare as her only companion, she spent much time  alone contemplating life's mysteries.
Meaning: The need to go within to gain knowledge to own one's divinity.  Withdrawl to better contemplate life.

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White Tara

She is distinguished by "her body ... white, as an autumn moon; clear as a stainless crystal gem, radiating light. She has one face, two hands, three eyes. She is described in manuals as having "the youth of 16 years" but is often depicted as more full-bodied than Green Tara. Her right hand makes the gift-bestowing gesture, and with the thumb and ring finger of her left hand she holds a branch of white utpala, its petals on the level of her ear.

There are three flowers in various stages of growth symbolizing the three times (past, present and future.) The first bloom that is in seed, usually on the right, stands for Buddha Kashyapa who lived in a past eon; the second in first bloom stands for the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, whose activity has brought you here today, and the bud on the left symbolizes future buddhas -- the expected one is Maitreya Buddha.

Her hair is dark blue, bound up at the back of her neck at the back with long tresses hanging down; her breasts are full; she is adorned with divers precious ornaments, her blouse is of vari-colored silk, and her robes are of red silk, the palms of her hand and the soles of her feet each have an eye, making up the seven eyes of knowledge; she sits straight and firm upon the circle of the moon, her legs crossed in the diamond posture."

[This description (Beyer 379) from the beginning of her sadhana is included as characteristic of the details in texts used as a basis for tantric visualizations. We remind the reader that in a Buddhist sadhana, the practitioner is not really worshipping a goddess since the image is his or her own self imagined as a deity.]

White Tara is referred to as "Mother of all the Buddhas." This is because she embodies the motivation that is compassion. Her whiteness "Radiant as the eternal snows in all their glory" is indicative of the selflessness -- the purity -- of this compassion but especially the undifferentiated Truth of the Dharma.

Her seven eyes stand for her perception of suffering that is apparent (the two we normally have,) that is psychological/spiritual (the one in her forehead,) and that is inherent in activity (in her palms,) and in what is usually considered as progress (in her soles.)

The mantra for White Tara is

OM. TARE TUTARE TURE. MAMA AYUR PUNYE JNANA PUSHTIM KURU, SWAHA

Ohm, Tahray Tootahray tooray, mahmah ahyoor poonyay jnyana pushtim kuru[-ye], Swahhah

Tibetans say: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE, MAMA AYUR JANA PUNTIN KURU SOHA

Namo Amitabha!

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TARE means liberating from samsara. This samsara means these aggregates: the aggregate of form, or the physical body; of feeling; of recognition; of karmic formations; and of consciousness.

TARE shows that Mother Tara liberates living beings from samsara, from true suffering, or problems. You can relate this to the particular sufferings of human beings: birth, old age, sickness and death; meeting undesirable objects and experiencing aversion; not finding desirable objects or finding them but gaining no satisfaction. No matter how much pleasure you enjoy, there is no satisfaction. No matter how much you follow desire, there is no satisfaction at all.

TUTTARE, liberates you from the eight fears. There are eight fears related to external dangers from fire, water, air, earth, and also from such things as thieves and dangerous animals. However, the main dangers come from ignorance, attachment, anger, pride, jealousy, miserliness, doubt and wrong views. These eight disturbing thoughts that you have in your mind are the main dangers. By taking refuge in Tara and doing Tara practice, you are liberated from these eight internal dangers, these eight disturbing thoughts. In this way, you are also liberated from external dangers, as these external dangers come from the inner disturbing thoughts.

TURE, liberates you from disease. Now, of the Four Noble Truths, TURE shows the cessation of suffering, which is the ultimate Dharma. In terms of liberating from disease, the actual disease we have is ignorance not knowing the absolute nature of the I, and all the disturbing thoughts that arise from this ignorance. These are the actual, serious diseases that we have. With cessation of all these diseases of disturbing thoughts, all the true sufferings, all the resultant problems, are also ceased. By liberating us from disease, TURE actually liberates us from the true cause, disturbing thoughts, and also the true sufferings.

The rough meaning of these three words TARE TUTTARE TURE is: "To you, embodiment of all the Buddhas' actions, I prostrate always—whether I am in happy or unhappy circumstances—with my body, speech and mind."

The final word SOHA means establishing the root of the path within your heart. In other words, by taking refuge in Tara and doing Tara practice, you receive the blessings of Tara in your own heart. This gives you space to establish the root of the path, signified by TARE TUTTARE TURE, in your heart. By establishing the path of the three capable beings within your heart, you purify all impurities of your body, speech and mind, and achieve Tara's pure vajra holy body, holy speech and holy mind, which are signified by OM. Your body, speech and mind are transformed into Tara's holy body, holy speech and holy mind. This is the rough meaning of OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA.

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Om is another variation of the romanized spelling for Aum. It is made up of the three syllabus of A, U and Ma, the universal trinity. You can do more research on this on your own.
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Soha, Svaha and Swahah are just variations in Romanized spellings. It also means 'so be it' or 'hail'.

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If you don't know the meaning at first it is fine. IN FACT, most people don't go too deep into its meaning in literal sense. The true meaning comes when one attain certain level of realizations/absorptions through the Sadhnas. Let the real meaning come through time and experience. Where and how do lamas get their meanings in the first place? As with all kinds of meditations, realizations and experiences goes beyond any conventional words to be described...

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Dancing Dove, the Green Tara mantra is beautiful, thank you for sharing!!

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