Sound, see it and you'll understand

[MatthewQi]

"Zen has not only an iron flute to be blown in the reverse direction but aslo a 'harp without strings'; and in reference to the famous koan that challenges the disciple to imagine what sound would be produced if he would clap with one hand, there is even a special Zen term for the inaudible voice of the one had: sekishi.

 

Hsueh-tou Ch'ung-hsien, a Chinese Zen master of the tenth century, once said: 'Of course, an ancient meoldy can move you to tears. Zen music, though, goes beyond what you can hear and grasp. Therefore do not make music unless you have found the Great Tone of Lao-tzu...' - about which Lao-tzu wrote in his terse style 'Great tools take much time to be manufactured.... The Great Tone is the tone that goes beyond all usual imagination.'

 

The Great Tone is the tone of being or, as the Indians put, the tone of the self, of the Atma. The Great Tone is Nada Brahma, the tone from which God made the world, which continues to sound at the bottom of creation, and which sounds through everything."

 

page 171 "The World is Sound, Nada Brahma; Musci and the Landscape of Consiouness" by Joachim-Ernst Berendt

[el_tortugo]

"Zen has not only an iron flute to be blown in the reverse direction but aslo a 'harp without strings'; and in reference to the famous koan that challenges the disciple to imagine what sound would be produced if he would clap with one hand, there is even a special Zen term for the inaudible voice of the one had: sekishi.

 

Hsueh-tou Ch'ung-hsien, a Chinese Zen master of the tenth century, once said: 'Of course, an ancient meoldy can move you to tears. Zen music, though, goes beyond what you can hear and grasp. Therefore do not make music unless you have found the Great Tone of Lao-tzu...' - about which Lao-tzu wrote in his terse style 'Great tools take much time to be manufactured.... The Great Tone is the tone that goes beyond all usual imagination.'

 

The Great Tone is the tone of being or, as the Indians put, the tone of the self, of the Atma. The Great Tone is Nada Brahma, the tone from which God made the world, which continues to sound at the bottom of creation, and which sounds through everything."

 

page 171 "The World is Sound, Nada Brahma; Musci and the Landscape of Consiouness" by Joachim-Ernst Berendt

4870[/snapback]

 

reminds me of my favorite tai chi move.......

 

the hidden posture within all the postures.