Buddha Full Moon Meditation

Join Us! A Buddha Full Moon Meditation, May 21

Chant a Buddhist mantra with Deva Premal & Miten on May 21 to create a wave of healing energy across the planet.

By Tori Rose

Mantra music superstars Deva Premal & Miten are inviting everyone to participate in their Buddha Full Moon Meditation at 9am worldwide on May 21.

The Buddha Full Moon, also known as Wesak, “is one of the most auspicious times for meditation and chanting, with a focus on enlightenment for all beings,” they explain.

“Buddha was born, became enlightened, and left his body on this day. At this powerful time, we can raise our vibration and focus our intention for the benefit of humanity. For all sentient beings, actually.”

A Mantra for Awakening

During this virtual, global meditation, Deva Premal & Miten are inviting people from around the globe to chant the core mantra of Nichiren Buddhism: Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

“The translation of the mantra is ‘I bow down to the mystical law of the Lotus Sutra’,” they explain. “In the Lotus Sutra, Gautama talks about our inherent nature being ‘Buddha Nature’—the potential in us all to wake up to the here-and-now, in all its pristine beauty and awesomeness.”

As Deva Premal & Miten observe in the liner notes of their new album, Cosmic Connections Live (releasing worldwide on May 20), “Chanting this mantra opens us to our supreme and innate Buddha Nature.”

During the Buddha Full Moon Meditation, participants will chant along to the “Nam Myoho Mantra” track from the new album—and it’s divine. Deva Premal’s soothing, surround-sound rendition of the ancient mantra is embedded in an East-West fusion soundscape that soars on luminous notes of the bansuri (courtesy of Nepalese maestro Manose).

What Are the Benefits of Joining a Global Meditation?

“Everything we think, say, and do creates a certain vibration in the energetic field in which we live,” Deva Premal & Miten explain. “That’s why it’s so important to purify our thoughts, words, and actions so that we stay in a healthy, joyful state. The more people put their intentions on raising the vibration, the stronger it becomes.”

It also helps us connect to a sangha, or spiritual community, they say. “Chanting mantras [together] creates this spiritual bond among us…The silence that follows the chant connects us all on a non-physical level. We meet in a higher dimension.”