Chanting Across Religions: Similar Action, Different Theology

It is tempting to say all chanting is one. It is the same temptation as saying all gods are one: a guest's convenience. The action — return to a phrase — is widely shared. The One being addressed, or the emptiness being approached, or the Name being loved, is not a universal plug.

CapSage will keep comparing gestures and refuse to baptise a synthesis. Readers may find their own rhymes. Rhymes are allowed. Annexation is not.

Similarity of mouth is not identity of meaning.

Read the tradition pages as neighbours on a street, not as rooms in a hotel you own. Then go home, if you have one. If you do not, the breath still works.