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Martin Luther King : King of Prayers

Today, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2012, I listened to a recording of the original "I Have a Dream" speech on the radio . I suddenly got the impression of a sadhana--that the speech is a sort of sadhana. Take the King of Prayers --not actually a sadhana but a much recited sutra. It takes you on a journey into other dimensions, possibilities, possibilities where people achieve their highest potential, achieve liberation, come to live in harmony with everything around them.

Incantations

Why do we recite mantras in a foreign language--Sanskrit--a language that we don't understand? And why don't the lamas usually tell us the meaning of the words in the mantra? I came across this interesting passage in a mystery novel: