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Add article on how mantras work through dependent origination
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martinmr committed Feb 7, 2023
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means that most of the people who ever benefit from Trane will never contribute back to the project,
neither with money nor code nor educational materials.

As a symbolic way to allow users to contribute back to the project, I settled on the idea of having
Trane "recite" mantras while it runs. The mantra chosen for Trane is the mantra of Tara Sarasvati,
the manifestation of Tara most closely associated with music and learning. Given that Trane was
created to help me practice music, I think the mantra is quite appropriate.
As a symbolic way to allow users to contribute back, I settled on the idea of having Trane "recite"
mantras while it runs. The mantra chosen for Trane is the mantra of Tara Sarasvati, the
manifestation of Tara most closely associated with music and learning. Given that Trane was created
to help me practice music, I think the mantra is quite appropriate.

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- **Garchen Rinpoche** spent twenty years in a labor camp due to his status as a high Lama before
the Chinese invasion of Tibet, practicing in secret, and eventually achieving enough freedom from
his mental obscurations that he came to see the labor camp as a "land of jewels". During his time
in prison, he fell into a frozen water reservoir in the middle of winter and called out to White
Tara using her mantra. He then felt himself floating back up naturally to the surface despite the
freezing temperatures and not knowing how to swim.
his mental obscurations that he came to see the labor camp, in his own words, as a "land of
jewels". During his time in prison, he fell into a frozen water reservoir in the middle of winter
and called out to White Tara using her mantra. He then felt himself floating back up naturally to
the surface despite the freezing temperatures and not knowing how to swim.

- **Rangjung Rigpe Dorje**, the 16th Karmapa, uttered Avalokiteshvara's mantra of compassion ("om
mani padme hum") while donning the titular crown at the climax of the Black Crown ceremony, which
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reality. The recitation of the mantra helped the view represented by it to become embodied and not
remain simply an intellectual construct.

A more elaborate explanation on the Buddhist view of how mantras work through [dependent
origination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da) can be found in this
[article](https://perfumedskull.com/2016/06/19/the-magic-of-interdependence-a-general-description-of-the-view-of-how-mantras-produce-results/).

### Who else should use this library?

Any maintainer of an open source project that wants their users to contribute back to their project
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