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Meditation for Today

“Find Your Center in the Middle of Sound”

uses sound to become more aware of the silent and still place inside of you
that is your center.

If you are wearing headphones, you should remove them, so that you can hear
the sounds in your environment.

Wherever you are right now, you are surrounded by sounds. Sounds (you will
find) are always present. In your work place, on the way to work, wherever
you are, you can hear sounds… sounds produced by nature, or by humans, or
by machines.

And with sound, there is something very special – whenever there are sounds,
you are the center. All the sounds come to you, from everywhere, from all
directions. Wherever you are, you are always the center of sound.

The Method

Close your eyes … and feel the whole universe filled with sound.

Feel as if every sound is moving toward you, and you are the center.

The universe is the circumference, the outer – and you the center, the inner
and everything is moving toward you, falling towards you…

…as in the continuous sound of a waterfall.

When you are sitting by the side of a waterfall, you can close your eyes and
feel the sound all around you, falling on you from every side, creating a center
in you from every side.

Or do it in a market – there is no other place like a market, it is so filled with
sounds, crazy sounds.

…do not start thinking about sounds – that “this is good and that is bad, and

this is disturbing and that is very beautiful and harmonious.” instead, stay in
touch with

the center. Don’t think about the sound moving toward you,

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whether it is good, bad, beautiful. Just remember…that you are the center, and
all the sounds are moving toward you – every sound, whatever it is.

Relax and let everything enter you. You have become more relaxed, more soft,
more open….

Now move with the sounds, and let your attention come to the center where
you hear them.

If you can feel a center where every sound is being heard, there is a sudden
transference of consciousness. One moment you will be hearing the whole
world filled with sounds, and in the next moment your awareness will suddenly
turn in and you will hear the soundlessness, the center of life.

Once you have heard soundlessness then no sound can disturb you. It comes

to you, but it never reaches you. It is always coming to you, but it never
reaches you.

There is a point where no sound enters.

That point is you.

Okay… you can open your eyes now.

Now that you’ve had a small taste of this technique, you can do it on your own
whenever you like.