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The Gift Of Sound




The gift of working with sound…




I sit here in meditation…I hear the birds singing…




All sounds take on special meaning when I am like this.
Quiet. Open.




I hear an airplane and instead of being annoyed at its
mechanical intrusion, I allow it to penetrate my hearing in the same way as the
birds, attaching no meaning to it.




I am for a moment, free.,,my body relaxes, I am one with
everything.




Training with sound, feeling sound moving through my body
and making friends with it through toning…through mantra, through hearing the
subtle and not so subtle harmonics emanating from a sounding bowl…has enhanced
my listening abilities.




How does this help me in my daily life…when I am not
meditating, but talking, listening, acting out tasks? Sometimes when I feel the
tension rising within me through some situation or other…or some belief arising
or other…I go back to listening to the sounds around me. I go for the
background sounds first…which help take me out of my identification with what
is immediately in front of me. Once I have done that and can feel the
relaxation returning, I bring my focus back on the immediate sounds and keep
the background sounds in there. This is the audio version of peripheral vision,
or of non-identification, of objective observation. I am a little freer from my
‘samskaras’ (Hindu) or unconscious beliefs and inner structures.




The blessing of falling into silence after the sounding…
after the music, after the singing…is a constant reminder of all (the sound)
and nothing (the silence). Of ‘everything matters’ and ‘nothing matters’. Of my
magnificence and of my nothingness. And for a moment, being at peace with the
yin and the yang. All rolled together in a glorious few minutes within the gift
of sound and its partner, silence.




 




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