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Sound brings forth all.... "I am the master of the tone ... All creatures, all things, even the seemingly lifeless ones, give off tones. Each being, each thing produces a special, characteristic tone which, however, changes as the states of the being or thing by which it is produced change. "Why? "Beings and things are conglomerations of smallest particles, the so-called rdul phra ; they dance, and with their movements they produce tones. "This is what the teachings say: In the beginning was the wind. With its whirl, it created the gjatams , the primordial forms and the prime base of the world. This wind sounded; thus it was the sound which formed matter. The pounding of these first gjatams brought forth further forms which, by virtue of their sounds, in turn created new shapes. That is by no means a tale from days long passed, it is still that way. The sound brings forth all forms and all beings. The sound is that through which we live." - an old Lama in Tibet, near the Chinese border, SpiritSound Collection : Back to Page 3 : SpiritSound Home Page |