Amanda Ramcharitar Yoga

I read an article yesterday that drew from the Buddha’s technique of using Sound to penetrate into the inner most centre of oneself.  The thought first came to my mind when reading about this technique, but what if i were hearing impaired?  How would I use this technique then?  This thought is due for more contemplation.  However since i am not hearing impaired I decided to try the technique.  Fortunately myself and a friend were heading out to a nature reserve that was surrounded by the ocean, full of amazing penetrating natural pounding waves and sounds.

The one part of the article i had read that really sunk in was the emphasis of not being an impartial observer, i have come to find that being an observer in meditation creates a dualism that to me is not totally wholesome feeling, like a recipe, one part observer, one part observed, but when do we bake it and come to Samadhi, Enlightenment, or Peace?  Well finding myself sitting by the ocean listening to waves, i decided to forget the observer & observed and truly let the sound penetrate.  Interestingly the night before i had attended a beautiful band playing some sweet subtle sounds, that when i closed my eyes, i felt its energy, it was soooo easy to let the music in especially this kind, so non invasive, easy…

Nature however was so full of sound, when i really listened to it was never ending, the wind, the crash of the waves, the birds, there was not one sound I could just concentrate on, it was a cacophony of sounds, that was chaotic!! But if i let them all in, and i sat in the middle of it all, i couldn’t hear the madness of my thoughts, i just felt i was in the centre of it all.  I was in the centre of it all.  I was in the centre of it all….