Naturally, we use techniques and gimmicks to help the thinking mind to become silent,
 and one of them is the gong.
 It is a sound at once pleasing and compelling.
 It absorbs attention, but watch what happens when it fades out.
 [Gong sounds]
 The one sound becomes the many.
 The single tone is transformed easily and gently into all other noises, and that's how
 the universe comes into being out of the one energy underlying all events.
 So if you don't have a gong, you can use your own voice.
 By chanting what Hindus and Buddhists call a mantra, that is, a syllable or phrase sung
 for its sound rather than its meaning.
 Chief of these is the syllable "om" or "alm" called the pranava or the sound of God because
 it involves the whole range of the voice from the back of the throat to the lips.
 Take the tone from the gong and hum it with me.
 [Gong sounds]
 Now you can hear all sounds as "om".
 They're all at some point in the total range of sound from the back of the throat to the
 lips making a spectrum of sound as all colors are originally one white light.
 But don't ask what the sound is or what it means, just hear it and dig it.
 Hum with me again.
 [Gong sounds]
 [Gong sounds]
 [Gong sounds]
 [Gong sounds]
 Let me explain again what we are doing.
 We are going behind words, names, numbers, beliefs and ideas to get back to the naked
 experience of reality itself.
 And at this level of awareness we find no difference between the listener and the sound,
 the knower and the known, the subject and the object, or between the past, the present
 and the future.
 All that's just talk.
 What is really happening is...
 [Gong sounds]


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