[sound of a gong]
 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 "om"
 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.
 [sound of a gong]
 [sound of a gong]
 [sound of a gong]
 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.
 [sound of a gong]
 [sound of a gong]
 [sound of a gong]
 [sound of a gong]
 [sound of a gong]
 [sound of a gong]
 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...
 [sound of a gong]
 [sound of a gong]
 And you may wonder,
 how I can keep the sound going for so long a time.
 It depends on regulation of the breath,
 which is basic to the art of meditation,
 and I'm going to show you how to do this and why.
 (waves crashing)


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