Welcome to another Buddha Weekly Mantra Time-Out—your short, emergency sanctuary when life feels heavy, overwhelming, or unsafe.

Feeling Drained? Paranoia? Bad Luck?

Do you feel like you are under attack by “black magic,” curses, or the hostile intentions of others? Whether you view this as an external curses or a heavy psychological obstruction (a storm of paranoia and dread), the suffering is real. It leaves you feeling isolated and waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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Remedies

In this emergency time-out, we turn to the ultimate protection: Black Tara (Vadi Pramardani Tara) .

• See our playlist of other Quick Time Out Emergency practices here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPx4qdPX9VtQ
• 🛡️ Who is Black Tara?

She is the 7th of the 21 Taras, known as “Tara Who Crushes Adversaries.” But as an enlightened Bodhisattva, she does not kill or create bad karma. Like a fierce mother elephant protecting her calf, she destroys the causes of black magic—the anger, jealousy, and ignorance in the mind of the harm-doer—and neutralizes their negative energy. She simultaneously purifies the fear and self-doubt within your own mindstream.

🧠 The Psychology of Protection

As the 11th-century yogini Machig Labdron taught: “As long as there is an ego, there are demons.” A curse gains power when our fear gives it permission to take root. By visualizing Black Tara—a Jungian “shadow” empowered for good—we shatter paranoia and reclaim our personal power.

🙏 The Ultimate Refuge

Regardless of the form we visualize, our true refuge is the Three Jewels:

• Buddha: The Enlightened form (Black Tara) we visualize.
• Dharma: The sacred mantra we chant.
• Sangha: Our connection to all sentient beings.

Against the Triple Gem, no evil or obstacle can prevail.

✨ What You Will Experience in This Video:

Guidance: Understanding how Buddhism meets the fear of black magic without judgment.

Visualization: A guided meditation on the radiant, dark-blue light of Black Tara.

The Mantra: Chanting the potent Sanskrit mantra for dissolving curses, with Hrishikesh Sonar and the Buddha Weekly Band.

The Shield: Visualizing an impenetrable sphere of wisdom fire that consumes all negativity before it reaches you.

🎵 Black Tara MANTA:

oṃ tāre tuttāre ture sarva vidyā avarṇā ye bhye phaṭ svahā

ओंतारेतुत्तारेतुरेसर्वविद्याअवर्णायेभ्येफटस्वहा॥

🎵 The Mantra Translation:

“Homage to Tara, the saviouress from suffering and fear, whose wisdom cuts and transforms, dissolves or eliminates every obstacle, curse, and negativity.”

⏱️ Timecodes:

⏱️ Timecodes:

0:00 – Introduction: Facing the Fear of Black Magic

2:22 – How Buddhism Views Curses & Psychic Attack

3:42 – Black Tara: The Undefeatable Protector

4:48 – The Psychology of Demons & The Ego

6:31 – True Refuge and Protection: the Three Jewels

8:07 – Guided Visualization: The Blue Light of Protection

12:15 – Chanting the Mantra (Hrishikesh Sonar with Buddha Weekly Band)

💡 Benefits of This Practice:

Dissolves Fear: Calms the “storm of paranoia” and unexplained dread.

Energetic Cleansing: Visualizing the blue light purifies negative imprints and bad karma.

Restores Boundaries: Provides a powerful archetype to shatter psychological vulnerability.

Connects to Sangha: Reminds you that you are not alone; you are connected to the life force of the Universe.

👤 Who Is This For?

Anyone feeling drained, isolated, or targeted by negativity.

Those experiencing “bad luck” or spiritual obstructions.

Practitioners seeking a swift, wrathful protection practice.

Anyone needing an “emergency” spiritual reset.

CREDITS:
Illustrations by V.V. Sapar, Niels Petersen, Lasha Mutual, and Thangkha Nepal. Thank you!

Songwriter and Lead Singer: Hrishikesh Sonar

Band: Buddha Weekly Band

Available on your Favorte Music Streaming Platform under Band “Buddha Weekly Band” in our Album “Mantra Collection 2” track 10:

APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/us/album/mantra-collection-2/1694199097

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/52QhLfHssEBGYLiZSmbhhP

⚠️ Important Caution:

While spiritual practice can provide immense comfort and psychological resilience, please always seek the help of qualified professionals (medical, first-responders, psychological, or legal) if you are in danger, experiencing severe mental health crises, or facing physical threats. Buddhism encourages taking practical refuge in the world as well as the spirit.

🙏 Dedication:

We dedicate the merit of this practice: May all negative energies, curses, and ill-will in the world be pacified. May all sentient beings be free from fear, free from harm, and abide in permanent peace and protection. Svaha!

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TRANSCRIPT

Welcome to another Buddha Weekly Mantra Time-Out—your short, emergency sanctuary when life feels heavy, overwhelming, or unsafe.

Today, we are tackling a topic that carries immense fear and weight across almost every culture in the world: the feeling of being under attack by “black magic,” curses, bad luck, or the hostile, negative intentions of others.

Whether you view black magic literally as an external curse, or as a heavy psychological obstruction—a storm of paranoia, unexplained dread, or projection born from human envy and malice—the suffering it causes in your mind and body is painfully real. It can leave you feeling drained, isolated, and constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.

In Buddhism, we meet this fear without judgment or skepticism. The Buddha acknowledged that negative energy, harmful intentions, and spiritual or mental obstructions exist in our shared experience. But he also taught that no curse, spell, or negative energy is absolute, and no harm-doer possesses power over your core nature once you step into true protection.

To understand how Buddhist wisdom approaches black magic, we look through two complementary lenses: traditional sacred traditions and modern psychology. Across all major Buddhist traditions, there are profound practices specifically dedicated to protection and banishing negativity.

In Theravada Buddhism, practitioners chant the ancient Paritta protection suttas—discourses of the Buddha that invoke the power of truth, loving-kindness (metta), and the wisdom perfections to dissolve fear and ill-will.

In Mahayana Buddhism, we turn to Sitatapatra—the White Umbrella Goddess “Aparajita,” the Undefeatable One, born from the Buddha’s ushnisha—whose vast protective parasol turns away all bad dreams, malicious spells, and 84,000 types of obstacles.

In Vajrayana Buddhism, the most swift and beloved responder for times of threat is Black Tara—specifically Vadi Pramardani Tara, the 7th of the 21 Taras. She is called “Tara Who Crushes Adversaries” and “Destroyer of Enemies”. But what does “destroying enemies” actually mean in an enlightened tradition based on non-violence?

As an enlightened Bodhisattva, Black Tara cannot kill or create bad karma. Instead, she acts like a fierce mother elephant protecting her baby. In nature, a mother elephant is serene and calm—until a pride of lions threatens her calf. She charges forward with invincible power, driving the lions away. She doesn’t slaughter the lions; she destroys their ability and power to cause harm.

In the same way, Black Tara destroys the causes of black magic—the toxic mental poisons of anger, hate, jealousy, and ignorance in the minds of those who wish you harm. She neutralizes their negative energy, while simultaneously purifying the fear, anger, and self-doubt within your own mindstream.

This aligns remarkably with modern psychology. The great 11th-century Tibetan yogini Machig Labdron famously stated: “As long as there is an ego, there are demons. When there is no more ego, there are no more demons.” Psychologically, a curse or psychic attack gains its power when our ego-clinging and fear give it permission to take root in our subconscious.

Psychologist Rob Preece notes that wrathful enlightened deities embody the Jungian “shadow” empowered for good. Their fierce, boundary-enforcing imagery provides our subconscious with a powerful archetype that shatters paranoia, restores psychological safety, and reclaims our personal power. This reinforces and amplifies our mind’s own power to protect us.

Regardless of the form you visualize, we understand that all Enlightened forms, no matter what label we attach, our real refuge is the Three Jewels: the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. These are the ultimate protection.  If we label Buddha and visualize as wrathful Tara, to support our powerful protective meditation, She is still ultimatelly one with the Three Jewels. By focusing on a form and name and mantra that helps our own Buddha Nature rise up in defence, we are safe. The form we visualize is Buddha.

Likewise, the mantra we chant here for protection is Dharma. Our voice is blessed and empowered by Dharma.

And Sangha are the most important. It is our connection and unity with the wider Sangha, not only Bodhisattvas, Protectors, Monks, Nuns and devout Buddhists, but all beings. In this Oneness with all beings is true protection, the power and lifeforce of the entire Universe of sentient beings. This connects us to the Qi, or La, or Prana, the energy of life. Against the Triple Gem, no evil, obstacle, black magic can ever prevail.

Now, let us move from understanding into practice. Wherever you are right now, take a short time-out. Sit comfortably, uncross your legs, relax your shoulders, and rest your hands gently in your lap. Close your eyes halfway and take a deep, slow breath in through your nose… and release it gently through your mouth.

As you breathe, acknowledge any heavy feelings, fears, or sense of vulnerability you have been carrying. Do not fight them. Simply inhale deeply, and as you exhale, breathe out all doubt, anxiety, and toxic energy as a stream of cold, dark smoke, letting it dissolve into empty space.

Now, visualize appearing in the space directly before you the compassionate and invincible form of Mother Tara in her protective Black form—glowing with the radiant, dark-blue light of the starry cosmos. At her heart is the black seed syllable TAM, vibrating with unstoppable wisdom energy.

As you inhale, see a brilliant beam of space-blue and fiery golden light streaming from Black Tara’s heart directly into your heart center. Feel this sacred light filling your chest, flowing through your nervous system, strengthening your inner life force, and instantly purifying all negative imprints, bad karma, and spiritual obstructions.

With every breath, this light expands outward from your body, forming an impenetrable, glowing sphere of wisdom fire all around you. This wall of fire consumes all negative intentions, curses, and dark energies before they can ever reach you. Feel completely safe, grounded, and protected in Mother Tara’s embrace.

Rest in this unshakable certainty for a few moments: No negative intention can penetrate this light. You are safe. You are grounded. You are protected.

To seal this protection we’ll chant one of the most potent protective mantras, famous for defending against negative intentions of others, black magic, curses and external and internal obstacles. Understand, as you chant this, that Tara is a fully Enlightened Buddha, and is everywhere, in every heart, including your own. This is because all beings have Buddha Nature, connecting us all. This mantra touches her protective presence

The mantra translated means “Homage to Tara, the saviouress from suffering and fear, whose wisdom cuts and transforms, disolves or eliminates every obstacle, curse, and negativity.”

As we chant the mantra, empowering the Dharma speech, visualize Black Tara’s light, radiant blue light emanating from Tara’s heart and entering your own heart, and surrounding you in an unbreakable circle of protecting light.

Join with us now in chanting Black Tara’s Sanskrit mantra with Hrishikesh Sonar and the Buddha Weekly Band.

We dedicate the merit of this practice: May all negative energies, curses, and ill-will in the world be pacified. May all sentient beings be free from fear, free from harm, and abide in permanent peace and protection. Svaha!