The sacred mantra of the Tibetan Buddhists is om mani padme hum.

         Om is the great emptiness, and hum is the actualization into form. Om mani padme hum is the method by which the spirit and flesh are united.[xi]

Om mani padme hum describes the descent of the cosmic vibration, the om, the alpha, into the worldly realm, the hum, the omega.

In om we live, and breathe, and have our being, and in hum we are that being.

Om is everything, hum is anything. Om is the I, hum is the AM. I the eternal, AM the ephemeral. I the formless, Am the form. I the spirit, Am the flesh. Om mani padme hum.

Inner and outer meet in the stillness of om, and in the activity of hum. Om is the witness, hum is the witnessed. Om the ether, hum the air. Om the theater, hum the play.

When emptiness unites with form the cosmic om attains the earthly hum, and God is born into isness.

excerpted from:

Om, baby! a pilgrimage to the eternal self

by Jack Haas

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