Now then, to make this somewhat easier, to have the mind free from discursive verbal
 thinking, sound or chanted sound is extremely useful.
 If you for example simply listen to the gong, and let that sound be the whole of your experience,
 it's quite simple, it requires no effort.
 And then along with that, especially if you don't have a gong, we can use what are called
 in the Sanskrit language, mantra.
 Mantra are chanted sounds which are used not so much for their meaning as for the simple
 tone.
 And they go along with that easy kind of slow breath.
 One of the basic mantras is of course the sound Om.
 That sound is used because if you spell it out A-U-M, it runs from the back of your throat
 to your lips, and therefore it contains the whole range of the voice.
 And for that reason it represents the total energy of the universe.
 This word is called the Pranava, the name for the ultimate reality for the which than
 which there is no witcher.
 And so in this way then if you chant it, Om.
 And it's varied like this.
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 And you can keep that up for quite a long time,
 and eventually you will find as you go on chanting
 that the words of the chant will simply have become pure sound.
 And you won't be thinking about it.
 You won't have any images about the sound going on in your mind.
 You will simply become completely absorbed in sound,
 and therefore you will find yourself living in an eternal now
 in which there is no past and there is no future
 and there is no thing called difference between what you are as knower
 and what you are as the known,
 between yourself and the world of nature outside you.
 It all becomes one doing, one happening.
 Now in addition to those slow moving chants,
 you may find it according to your temperament easier to do a fast moving one.
 These have a sort of rhythm to them that is absorbing.
 Say a chant that many of you have heard that goes,
 Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare
 Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare
 Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare
 Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare
 Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare
 And it doesn't matter what it means.
 Actually, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma are the names of Hindu divinities.
 But that's not the point.
 The point is just to get with that thing that is running, running, running.
 Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare and so on.
 And if you're a Christian or a Jew and you feel more inclined to use a meditation word
 that is more congenial to you, you can use, say,
 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
 Or if you're a Mohammedan, you can use the Allah, the name of God.
 they have a way of doing it, you know, which gets very exciting.
 Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah.
 And it gets fast and faster. You can keep that up for 40 minutes.
 And you'll be out of your mind. But you see, to go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important,
 because by going out of your mind you come to your senses.
 And if you stay in your mind all the time, you are over-rational.
 In other words, you're like a very rigid bridge, which because it has got no give, no craziness in it,
 is going to be blown down in the first hurricane.


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