In this guided meditation, during the Vesak Full Moon program at Dhammagiri, Ajahn Dhammasiha uses the Mantra:

"Bhagavā Araham Buddho - Buddho Araham Bhagavā"

as a form of 'Buddhānussati', Recollection of the Buddha.

Remembering the Buddha with the help of a Mantra is an easy and very straightforward method of establishing one's Samatha/Samādhi meditation. Many of the great Ajahns of the Forest Tradition used Buddhānussati as their foundational meditation object ('Parikamma') with good effect.

Remembering the Buddha brings up the qualities of faith, confidence, conviction and devotion in our mind. As these emotions are getting stronger with every repetition of the mantra, they start to generate a wholesome form of happiness, called 'pāmojja' in Pāli.

As the meditation progresses, the happiness develops into rapture and bliss ('pīta-sukha'). We can then allow ourselves to be immersed and suffused by that rapture and bliss, until they ultimately carry our mind into internal, blissful unification - Samādhī.

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