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“In Vajrayana Buddhism and Hinduism, the term bīja is used for mystical “seed syllables” contained within mantras. These seeds do not have precise meanings, but are thought to carry connections to spiritual principles. The best-known bīja syllable is Om, first found in the Hindu scriptures the Upanishads.” […]
“According to this theory, all experiences and actions produce bīja as impressions, stored in the alaya (storehouse) consciousness. The external world is produced when the seeds “perfume” this consciousness. This view of bīja has been equated to memes, with the theory itself positing an extreme form of memetics (ie. reality and existence consist purely of memes).”
(I added some emphasis there, btw) Anyway, this is fascinating… the wikipedia entry goes on to say: Bija of the ‘Varnamala’ (Sanskrit; English: “garland of letters”; which may be rendered as alphabet) are understood as aniconic representations and sound embodiments of the matrikas, note how nearly homophonic and etymologically related ‘matrika’ is to ‘mantrika’, that is “a practitioner of mantra”.
(Also, the idea of a bardic cymatic interface for an iPhone is pretty cool too)