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Do you guys time how long you chanted?

• Pure Emptiness

  8 Nov 10, 20:00

  My longest chanting time is abt 30 minutes.

  I start from 5 minutes slowly build up to 30 minutes. Starting my concetration is not so good.

  Aim is to chant 1 hour at least. 

• Amitayus48

  15 Nov 10, 16:05

  Buddha only advice for this in the vow. Probably, an unsurpassed loving kindness of not giving unduly tense to living beings :D
  According to Master Ou-I, for pureland rebirth, the fundamental is built on faith and vow, while concentration is the level of achievement for the rebirth in Pureland.
  Your gradual method is perfectly in tune.

  我作佛时，�方众生，闻我��，至心信�。所有善根，心心回�，愿生我国。乃至�念，若�生者，��正觉。唯除五逆，诽谤正法。
  When I become a Buddha, the living beings in the ten directions, when they hear my Name, sincerely and happily have faith in my Name and in every thought transfer all their good roots so as to be born in my Land. If there are only ten such thoughts and if they are unable to be born in my Land, I will not attain The Proper Enlightenment. Excepting those who have committed the five evil deeds and who have slandered The Proper Dharma.

  å��å…« å��念必生愿。
  18 Vowing that living beings are certainly to obtain a rebirth in his Land if they are able to be mindful of Him in 10 successive thoughts

• Dawnfirstlight

  15 Nov 10, 19:06

  I chant with beads. I chant 10 rounds but did not time how long it takes. I chant very fast so it does not take very long.

• An Eternal Now

  16 Nov 10, 20:19

  Originally posted by Pure Emptiness:

  My longest chanting time is abt 30 minutes.

  I start from 5 minutes slowly build up to 30 minutes. Starting my concetration is not so good.

  Aim is to chant 1 hour at least. 

  Good improvement and aim! Your calmness and 'ding li' is building up.

• Pure Emptiness

  16 Nov 10, 21:03

  Thanks.