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Some scientists have made use of the transmission quality of water by having deaf people "listen" to music in this liquid. Of course, they do not listen with their defective ears; rather, they "listen" with their bodies. In the water, they can sense the sound vibrations, which make the hearing nerves in their brain feel the music.

Therefore, we can clearly understand the power of music and its therapeutic effects. In physics terminology, "music" and "sound" are defined as that generated by objects in intense vibration which is transmitted into the surrounding air, changing the air density and producing sound waves of different wavelengths. When these sound waves spread and reach our eardrums, they stimulate the hearing nerves and yield a sound effect. This brings us to the conclusion that sound is one of many forms of vibration. Light and sound are actually two aspects of one and the same thing. Vibration is perceived by the eyes as light, and received by the ears as sound. Sound is audible light, and light is visible sound. The interface between the intangible light and tangible substances is the sound which falls somewhere between the tangible and intangible, serving as a transformer or rectifier between the two.

The sound wave is a path or bridge for communication. When we come home physically exhausted, we play some light music and let it pervade the whole room, and we feel much relaxed after a while. It is because, after the connection between our physical body and soul has been severed, the sound wave of music becomes a bridge that helps the constricted energy to circulate smoothly, and thus revitalizes our exhausted body. This resembles the ribbon exercises that children do. The ribbon stick is held and shaken vigorously up and down to create a sequence of waves that are transmitted along the ribbon, from the energizing end to the free end until the waves become uniform.

1. ------, the stable ribbon.

2. --, energy transmitting from one end to the other

3. , equal vibration at both ends

From a video tape for educational purposes about the work of Children's Development Center, Cambridge British, I saw how musical therapy was used to help a child with multiple deficiencies. The little girl was unable to speak a whole sentence and could not calm down due to emotional handicaps. At her first treatment, the therapists failed to establish a friendship with her. Unable to cope with the strange surroundings and people, she kept screaming and wailing, and even became aggressive.

To divert her attention, a therapist suddenly played a few loud and harsh "musical" notes on the piano. The child was amazed to hear a sound even more powerful than her wailing. Her curiosity was aroused, her puzzled expression indicating her interest in finding out where this strange sound came from. And she calmed down.

The therapist stopped banging down on the piano keys. Instead, she switched to a soft and melodious tune, and even imitated the sounds of animals in order to develop an understanding and friendship with the child. Gradually, through musical activities, rhythmic exercises and games, the child became free of agitation and felt herself on firmer ground. She began to have greater confidence in the surroundings and in herself. Simple utterances slowly gave way to melodious humming. After a period of two years in which she also received a language therapy, she was finally able to speak in complete sentences.

A teacher of mine was originally introvert, shy and quiet by nature. However, heshe changed completely into a lively, active, and cheerful person after studying at the Orff Institute of Salzburg. The institute had employed instructional techniques that were often used by musical therapists.

Martin Luther once said, "All music lovers are endowed with heaven's grace."

I am sure that fellow Quan Yin practitioners can best understand the meaning of this statement. As a popular advertisement goes, "Children who learn music won't become bad!" Just by playing music or receiving treatment using musical instruments, patients have been found to overcome their depression and become cheerful and self-confident; even children who cannot receive normal education due to multiple mental deficiencies can be taught to speak and overcome their restlessness and bad temper. As we practice the supra-worldly sound of the Quan Yin Method, the sound current will definitely pervade our body, heart and mind to purify and elevate us, and take us back to the magnificent homeland of our souls-the heavenly kingdom. This is the truly superb "musical therapy" that transcends all else!¡¹

M: Yes. It does. It's very important. This is why many people in mental hospitals use music as one of the healing instruments. And sometimes after a hard day's work, we listen to some soft soothing music. It's very relaxing and recharging. And in some of the factories they put music so that the people work better. But that's only the outer music. Can you image how more beneficial it is if we listen to the inner music, the music from heaven, which initiation will help you to rediscover.

This music is the word of God. It will give us more and more wisdom, more and more intelligence each day. Together with the light of God, it will bring us closer and closer to the Father, and then tell us everything in this non-verbal language how to handle our daily lives. That's how the life of the initiates becomes better, more comfortable, more intelligent and nearer to God each day.¡¹

So lately in America, we have all heard of the latest invention -- that people even have a machine to put you into samadhi. Have you experienced this? You haven't? No? It's in America, four hundred to seven hundred, depending on what level you want. This is for the lazy people who don't want to meditate, just want to be right in samadhi. Now, in case you don't know, I'll be brief about that.

They say that this kind of machine can put you into a relaxed mental state then you will achieve a high level of IQ. That's supposed to give you high knowledge, high wisdom and then you feel great, etc etera. This machine uses some selected outer music, so you need earphones, and then they put some electric, probably, currents that stimulate you, Then you probably see some flashes. So you need also a blindfold. The earphones and a blindfold, that's all you need for samadhi. This is very good, and four hundred dollars -- very cheap. But our samadhi is even cheaper, it costs nothing, and it's forever. You don't need to charge with batteries or electricity, plug in, plug out; or in case the machine goes out of order, you don't need to go and fix it.

Now, even if the artificial light and music can make people become so relaxed and so wise -- it is supposed to give them this, but I have only read in a newspaper what it's supposed to do, I haven't tried it myself. So that's why it is very hot and has sold a lot, I've heard. Even these artificial things can put us into a relaxed mood and increase our IQ, then can you imagine how much the real thing can help us in our wisdom? The real thing is beyond this world but it's accessible to every man, should we want to contact it. This is the inner heavenly music and the inner heavenly sound. And depending on the intensity of the inner light or inner music, we can push ourselves beyond this world, go into a deeper level of understanding.

I guess it's just like the laws of physics. If you want to send some rocket beyond gravity, you have to have a lot of pushing power behind it. Also when it flies very fast it emanates some light. So I guess when we go fast into the beyond, we also, radiate some light, and can hear the sound.

The sound is a kind of vibrational power that pushes us into the higher levels, but it does that without any noise, without much trouble and no cost and no discomfort to the "experiencer". That's the way to go into the beyond.

And what is beyond this world that is better than our world? Everything that we can imagine and cannot imagine. Once we experience it, then we know. No one else can tell us really. But we have to be persistent in that, and we have to be truly sincere.¡¹

And we hear many things -- music, talking, language. We use this kind of visible or audible sound to the ordinary ears to communicate and even to transmit some of the understanding of the invisible sound. The invisible sound is God, which is also connected with this visible sound, but in a finer, in a more subtle degree. Once we understand what the so-called master or our teacher or our guide says about the invisible sound, and that we want to connect with that source, through the spoken words, then after instruction by this teacher or guide or expert, we can contact the finer sound which is above this physical sound, above this physical world. We must raise our consciousness higher in order to catch this sound.

Now our consciousness is just stuck in the physical body in different directions. Through the eyes, it sees things. Through the ears, it hears the sounds of the physical world. Through the touch, it experiences the surroundings and all the entities, and all the existing objects in this world. But if we withdraw this so-called consciousness to a certain point in the body, for example, here (Master points to the wisdom eye). Then, we can rise higher through this door to a more subtle world, in order to experience the more subtle levels of consciousness, the more subtle existences or worlds, and hear the more subtle sound.

But the subtle sound also connects with this physical sound, too. But it's just on a different level. In order to hear that, we must be concentrated and somewhat distracted from the outer environment for a while. And the so-called masters or experts should be able to help us to do this in no time, immediately. That's why it's called immediate enlightenment. Enlightenment means we can see light. The light in us is enlightened. Now, we can see light or the heavenly world and hear the sound of the higher world. That's what's called enlightenment, through the process of sound connecting with the original sound of the universe, which is the "word" in the Bible, or the sound of many waters, etc. in the Buddhist Sutras. Anyone who is able to help us to connect ourselves with this original sound or God's energy, is called a master.¡¹