Word: mantras
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...friend stay over after he's been kicked out of his parents' house, and they sleep innocently with arms wrapped around each other in a bed surrounded by pornographic pinups. The kids of 15 pose as hard guys, wear tattoos and rap the names of gangs like a protection mantra, but Tan shows them for what they are: young kids with frail bodies, who have no one but each other...
...realize that the two 1970s were really one: a decade of populism, individualism and social flux when the rules were up for grabs--a situation we can thank for both The Last Picture Show and the leisure suit. Goof or Golden Age? For one week, as was the 1970s mantra of Burger King and Hollywood's auteurs, you can have it your way. --By James Poniewozik
...minutes a day and actively concentrating on a breath or a word or an image, you can train yourself to focus on the present over the past and the future, transcending reality by fully accepting it. In its most modern, Americanized forms, it has dropped the creepy mantra bit that has you memorize a secret phrase or syllable; instead you focus on a sound or on your breathing. It's a practice of repetition found somewhere in the history of most religions. There are dozens of flavors, from the Relaxation Response to gtum-mo, a technique practiced by Tibetan monks...
...England's top-secret MI-5. Hillary Clinton has talked about meditating, and the Gores are converts. "We both believe in regular prayer, and we often pray together. But meditation--as distinguished from prayer--I highly recommend it," says the man who nearly became our President. Gore's TM mantra is not, as rumored, Florida...
CONCENTRATIVE Meditative technique that directs the mind to a single focus, such as on the breath or a mantra...