Hello,
Good afternoon.
This is a recording,
A practice on the meditation of sound and I'm so happy that you're here with me today because this meditation can be practiced anywhere,
Especially when you're at the office or at school or in the middle of a busy street or a city.
And so I'm really excited to share this meditation with you.
So if you could just come into a comfortable seat and make sure that you're not stressing your neck or your spine in that you're in a comfortable place with your feet on the ground.
Make sure your phone is turned off though.
Of course,
We're going to listen to sound and I'll share with you how to manage sounds that arise and how cool this meditation will be as it relates to them.
So anyway,
Come right inside and begin to just be aware of this very familiar,
Beautiful terrain which you've known forever since you were a little baby in five and seven and 15 and 30,
However old you are.
It's so intimate.
It's so perfect and beautiful.
And I want you just to begin to listen to the sounds around you.
Listen to the sounds around you.
Notice outer sounds as though they're just waves on the ocean.
Do not try to separate that sound as a car honking or a pet barking or a truck driving by.
Just listen to the waves of the sounds as they come by by distorting your sense of history and memory around them.
Right?
They just go by.
You don't care what made those sounds.
You mostly just want to feel sort of a frequency of sound entering you,
Whether it's through your ears or the cells in your body.
Just listen for a moment.
You might be in a very quiet space where the sounds are just more like a hum,
Or you might hear sounds in a distance.
Just listen to those frequencies.
And now I want you to turn your attention inward.
Ask softly,
What sound is here inside the hearing?
What sound is there really?
If you perceive a faint ring or hum,
Rest in it.
Rest in the internal sound.
If not,
Just rest in the sense of listening itself.
Rest internally.
What is arising?
In other words,
Sounds arise outside and hit your internal system.
What does it feel like for them to enter into you?
When the tone changes,
What does it feel like?
When sound dissolves as it enters into your internal system,
What remains?
Sound arises externally,
And it hits your internal terrain first as a quality that you may know,
And then it leaves behind a frequency,
A vibration.
Follow it all the way to the end and live in a quality of a live silence with what remains.
Thoughts come and go.
They pass by.
Keep returning to the listening,
The tone,
Or the silence.
This focus will take you home to what remains,
Which is expanded emptiness.
Let's practice now for a few minutes.
Even the vibration of internal thoughts that arise like your thinking mind create an afterglow,
An after frequency.
Follow the sound,
The thought to the end,
And sit in what remains.
Now,
When you feel ready,
I'll invite you just to take a slightly deeper breath in.
Begin to come out of this meditation by wiggling your fingers and toes a little.
Just come back into the sense of your vibrant,
Beautiful body.
When you feel ready,
Just come out of this meditation.
I invite you to practice the sensual,
Sensory quality of playing with sound.
First,
It arises outside of you,
Then it enters into your whole body.
What is the sensory quality of that?
Then follow it all the way until it dissipates.
It's at that empty void,
That quality of empty void,
That one can slip into an expanded,
More whole quality of awareness.
Thank you for sharing your time today.
