Sound meditations
037
IMAGINE THE SANSKRIT LETTERS
IN THESE HONEY-FILLED FOCI OF AWARENESS, FIRST AS LETTERS,
THEN MORE SUBTLY AS SOUNDS,
THEN AS MOST SUBTLE FEELING. THEN, LEAVING THEM ASIDE, BE FREE
038
BATHE IN THE CENTER OF SOUND,
AS IN THE CONTINUOUS SOUND OF A WATERFALL,
OR BY PUTTING THE FINGERS IN THE EARS, HEAR THE SOUND OF SOUNDS
039
INTONE A SOUND, AS AUM, SLOWLY.
AS SOUND ENTERS SOUNDFULNESS, SO DO YOU
040
IN THE BEGINNING
AND GRADUAL REFINEMENT OF THE SOUND OF ANY LETTER, AWAKE
041
WHILE LISTENING TO STRINGED INSTRUMENTS,
HEAR THEIR COMPOSITE CENTRAL SOUND; THUS OMNIPRESENCE
042
INTONE A SOUND AUDIBLY,
THEN LESS AND LESS AUDIBLY AS FEELING DEEPENS
INTO THIS SILENT HARMONY
043
WITH MOUTH SLIGHTLY OPEN,
KEEP MIND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TONGUE.
OR, AS BREATH COMES SILENTLY IN, FEEL THE SOUND "HH."
044
CENTER ON THE SOUND "AUM" WITHOUT ANY "A" OR "M"
045
SILENTLY INTONE A WORD ENDING IN "AH."
THEN IN THE "HH," EFFORTLESSLY, THE SPONTANEITY.
046
STOPPING EARS BY PRESSING AND RECTUM BY CONTRACTING,
ENTER THE SOUND
047
ENTER THE SOUND OF YOUR NAME AND,
THROUGH THIS SOUND, ALL SOUNDS