Mantra
mantra (noun) -
a. A principle repeated over and over again because people feel that it is true.
b. A word or phrase repeated by Buddhists when they meditate.
Example sentences:
* Mr King's answer was to repeat the now-familiar mantra of corporate re-engineering.
* Her opinions are so absolute that she chants them mantra-like with fundamentalist zeal.
* There is a rising tide of doubt with people repeating, mantra-like, that what matters is leadership.
* The phrase seems such a tired old mantra now.
* He adopted a mantra for his political campaign: use of public roads is an inalienable human right,
* He repeated the name of his wife a thousand times every morning like a mantra.
* Benson believed there was no magic in the mantra.
* That's the mantra now being chanted on Capitol Hill.
* I repeat a phrase all day long to myself as sort of mantra.
* Williams' mantra is community policing, getting police officers out of their cars and onto the street.
* He repeats the ancient Sanskrit mantra "om mani padme hum" all day long as he works.
* The character in the novel is the perfect post-feminist heroine with her daily mantra, "self-obsession is a strength not a weakness", and her 6 inch stilettos.
* The Kamakura reformers, however, sought a single "mantra" one which would contain all the others.
* To some the mantra has magical power the more it is recited.
* Listening to customer complaints is now part of the new mantra of customer service.
* The president of the company has a habit of saying, mantra-like, that he "plans to be around a long time."
* For a meditator there is the rise and fall of the abdomen as she breathes in and out and a mantra word like "Buddho" the one who knows, that we repeat.
* In meditation each student is given a personal mantra (sacred word) by their teacher during initiation.
