"Taeeulju Chant: The Light Within the Sound"
Taemonim often instructed the disciples, “Chant the Taeeulju Mantra countless times. The Taeeulju Mantra is a mantra for cultivating your true mind, so the more you chant the Taeeulju Mantra, the deeper your mind will become.” She also revealed, “You will be inspired with spiritual power and the power of creation-transformation only if you faithfully chant the Taeeulju Mantra.”
-Jeung San Do Dojeon-
This song, structured around the ancient Taeeulju mantra, is more than a melody—it's a practice, a path, and a remembering. Whether whispered in solitude or sung in full voice, the mantra carries us back to ourselves, again and again. And in that sacred loop, we rediscover that we are already divine enough.
A Verse-by-Verse Reflection on a Spiritual Mantra Journey
“Breathe in the stars, feel the flow,
Riding waves the spirits know.
Every sound a cosmic door,
Let the chant begin once more.”
This opening verse is an invocation—a soft call to return inward. “Breathe in the stars” is a poetic image for breathing in something vast and eternal, reminding us that within each breath lies the entire universe. “Riding waves the spirits know” points to the natural rhythm of the cosmos, the unseen harmony that spiritual beings, or those in tune with deeper realities, naturally recognize. Every sound, especially mantra, becomes a gateway—a “cosmic door”—through which we enter higher awareness. The chant doesn’t begin for the first time; it begins “once more,” reminding us that this practice is timeless and cyclical.
“Hoom-chi Hoom-chi Tae-eul-cheon Sang-won-gun
Hoom-ri-chi-ya-do-rae Hoom-ri-ham-ri-sa-pa-ha
Chant it on, night and light collide,
Taeeulju... feel it from inside.”
Here, the sacred Taeeulju mantra begins. In Korean, this mantra is a powerful spiritual key said to align the practitioner with cosmic order, divine healing, and inner peace. The English line “night and light collide” symbolizes the dissolution of duality—darkness meeting light, ignorance dissolving into awakening. “Feel it from inside” is not just about emotion—it’s about resonance. The mantra is not just chanted; it is embodied.
“Floating high on sacred sound,
Where no fear and time is found.
Mirror-minds and skies align,
As you chant, the stars rewind.”
This verse expresses the transcendental quality of chanting. As one merges with the sound, one rises above time, fear, and the ego. The “mirror-minds” imply a collective spiritual consciousness or the pure minds reflecting all as they are, where human and divine, self and cosmos, reflect each other perfectly. In this alignment, even the stars seem to “rewind”—a poetic metaphor for reversing karma, resetting life’s direction, and reconnecting with one’s divine essence.
“Hoom-chi Hoom-chi Tae-eul-cheon Sang-won-gun
Hoom-ri-chi-ya-do-rae Hoom-ri-ham-ri-sa-pa-ha
Looping deep in heart's design,
Taeeulju... you're divine.”
The mantra returns, this time with deeper resonance. “Looping deep in heart’s design” suggests that the chant is now etched into the very blueprint of the soul—it loops not as repetition, but as sacred rhythm. And the declaration “you’re divine” is a powerful affirmation: through this sound, your true self is remembered—not separate from the sacred, but an expression of it.
“No more seeking, just become,
One with sky, the beat, the drum...
Manifest with mantra true—
The dream, the light, is already you.”
This section brings a realization. The spiritual journey is not about striving outward but about being, allowing oneself to “just become.” The sky, the beat, and the drum are metaphors for nature, rhythm, and inner awareness. “Manifest with mantra true” is the heart of all mantric practices: the vibration shapes reality. The final line—“The dream, the light, is already you”—brings it home. What we’re searching for has always lived within us.
“Hoom-chi Hoom-chi Tae-eul-cheon Sang-won-gun
Hoom-ri-chi-ya-do-rae Hoom-ri-ham-ri-sa-pa-ha
In your breath, in your flame,
Tae-eul-cheon Sang-won-gun...
Chant the sacred name.”
The last chorus is both a culmination and a soft landing. The mantra is no longer outside or even in the voice—it is in your breath, your flame, your very life force. Chanting the “sacred name” is not an act of devotion alone, but of becoming one with it. You are now the mantra, the resonance, the light.