The power of love does not impose itself upon you; however, its might can move mountains. When you touch this might, it moves you to gentleness, it restores your resting power, your receptive power, and it is also the power that gives.
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Singing is a different medicine. It's a kind of charity and a service to sing, and to invite other people to sing with us. And even if we don't sing it completely right, even if your voice is not perfect, it's really about the heart and the soul and the message and the transmission.
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New Poetry from Jaya
These poems come from Jaya’s newest collection, Two Mirrors, available now.
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Devotion is to be devoted to. Find out what it is like in your listening meditation to become devoted to the listening. To place your breath as a bouquet of flowers upon its altar. To lay all your concepts and cleverness down at its feet. Devotion is necessary for absorption, for without giving oneself totally one remains a separate entity who is considering, who is practicing, who is going or getting somewhere.
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Drift into the open-ended ambience of a drone, submerge in the endless flow of the sound of a stream, or disappear into the subtle nuances of static. In this way, what might typically be perceived as noise becomes an invitation to hear in a new way and opens a doorway to the sacred and profound.
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Every sound echoed, every song evoked, every word spoken, all arise from the timeless ocean of silence. When all is said and done, it is only silence that speaks, only silence that has the last word. This is why I say silence is the master's mantra. One can get caught up in all sorts of words, flights of fancy, special hymns, and incantations. True power lies in the silence.
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Chanting brings joy because it evokes in us the carefree attitude only a child knows. There's no shame or regret about the past, no anxiety or fear of the future. It creates an openness and vulnerability to feel, to be seen, embodying a sort of courageous, oblivious attitude of innocence.
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Singing is cleaning us from the inside out. It is like a nice soapy shower that we apply to clean all those hard-to-reach places, to brush away some of the cobwebs and shed light in the dark corners.
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Music is an invisible landscape, a hidden map that brings so much meaning with every little discovery of its body. If you put human beings anywhere, after a little while they will start to make music; melodies will find them, rhythms will knock on their doors.
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Selected poems on sound and silence from my next book of poetry, Two Mirrors, coming soon!
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Sound Ceremony extends an invitation into silence, encouraging us to listen more deeply and let that listening guide us from the superficial to the profound, uncovering the truth that there has never been any distance between existence and essence. To hear that sweet sound of who we are, and who we have always been, whispering in every moment, calling us home.
Read MoreBe it the tranquil hum of a tuning fork or the soothing murmurs of a therapeutic mantra, sound healing is gradually harmonizing its way into contemporary therapeutic practices.
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The concept of sound healing is as old as the hills, yet it still manages to intrigue and surprise the modern mind. If we trace the roots back to ancient civilizations, we realize that sound therapy is not a new-age concoction but a time-tested tradition.
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