<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Humming a Song]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>While having a chats, how we feel about a particular<span style="color:#339966;"><strong> sound,  a friend recalled one of my post </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;"><a title="Spiritual Sound" href="https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/spiritual-sounds/"><strong>[Spiritual Sound]</strong><span style="color:#333333;"> (click the Link)</span></a><strong> which he said pretty interesting.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ Oh yeah,  high pitch tone instantly  take our attention,  and it gives a bit chilly feeling </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>doesn&#8217;t it.   But if it wasn&#8217;t a rapid warning sound but slowly moving continuous tone,<br />
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>strangely it makes us a bit mesmerized and</strong></span><span style="color:#000080;"><strong> feel something </strong></span><span style="color:#000080;"><strong> spiritual, because high-tone</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>alerts our emotion &#8220;Be careful&#8221; and makes us highly perceptive,  it&#8217;s mean, silencing  the </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>thoughts and open the mind to listen its meaning.   </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>This completely open passive mind-set is what we feel &#8220;Spiritual&#8221;.  </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Spiritualism is in fact, a matter of our mind-set, not the existence of the God.  </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>A mind-set which open the perception try to listen and awaits to see its meaning&#8221;<br />
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong><span style="color:#339966;">&#8221; Hum,  sound convincing&#8221;</span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong> &#8221; In fact any sound which gives no meaning or too repetitive</strong></span><span style="color:#000080;"><strong> and boring</strong></span><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>,  also makes our </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>brain to resign the data process and become blank or open-minded state.  </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>This open-minded state is the essential key to the all the religion”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;"><strong>“ Aha, isn&#8217;t it related to the continuous chanting of  Buddhist&#8217;s mantra ?”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ That&#8217;s right”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;"><strong>“ It&#8217;s very funny isn&#8217;t it. Chanting Mantra is supposedly concentrates to their belief and </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;"><strong>show their dedication, but in fact, it lead the Mind to fed-up and resign.   Ha ha ha.”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ That&#8217;s a beauty of the Buddhism.   Buddhism is based on this paradox.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>The end result to open the Mind is the matter,  regardless the approach”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;"><strong>“ Do you mean, fed-up is the Enlightenment ?”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ Oh, you are almost Enlightened. Ha ha ha. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Fed-up to chase money-making, Fed-up women&#8217;s bottoms, Fed-up to fear the Death. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Then convinced [<span style="color:#0000ff;">OK, never mind Life just goes on</span>] is what all about the Enlightenment.”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;"><strong>“ Ha ha ha, it&#8217;s really a Dog Shit isn&#8217;t it”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ Yes, </strong></span><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Dog Shit are everywhere.  </strong></span><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>It&#8217;s called Universality of the Darma.  Ha ha ha”</strong></span></p>
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<p>Then the other, mentioned<span style="color:#666699;"><strong> “ Oh, there was a TV program.  A scientist  try to investigate </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><strong>what our brain is configuring the information, he try to learn Tight-rope Walk, and found </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><strong>a humming a song would help learning the body balance”.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ Well spotted.  Whether the sound come from external source or from inside, it stimulate </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>our sensory. But, if it has no meaning, our brain resign to process its data, and became blank. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Still, if he was on the rope, body&#8217;s motor region have to control the body balance, but </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>without any disturbance of noise such as a fear to fall or a conscious of that the TV camera is </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>watching.   Humming signal chased off all the evil thoughts.  Ha ha ha&#8221;<br />
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<p><strong><span style="color:#666699;">“ Oh I see, was that’s the reason”</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ Oh, do you remember the time, when you had a long walk or doing a boring manual work, </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>suddenly an old song came up to your mind, and it kept ringing in your mind, or you were </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>just keep humming it.   I remember when I was having long long walk in a mountain range,</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>the same song on a loop  all the day, and I walked like an automatic musical toy ”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><strong>“ Oh, yeah.  I remember it happened many times”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ It must be the self protection or a remedy to deal with, otherwise intolerable situation”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><strong>“ Sounds not very happy isn&#8217;t it”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ Yeah, but that&#8217;s why our brain filled our mind with the same repeating song, and avoided </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>us to fall into a mind crunch.   Blank mind can leave the body to just carry-on the task. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>So that we could survive”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><strong>“ May be”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>“ No, it&#8217;s not may be.   Blank Mind is the Key to deal with the situation best”</strong></span></p>
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<p>In the public perception, the words<span style="color:#000080;"><strong> [Blank Mind]</strong></span> sound not very promising.</p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>So, the Zen Buddhists found better word [Mushin]  🙂<br />
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<p>In fact, this [Mushin] can deal with everything better, because even the conscious mind became blank,</p>
<p>still all the necessary data processing are automatically carried out.</p>
<p>While the Scientist was on the rope, his conscious brain was occupied by a humming song and let the</p>
<p>subconscious motor region to control body movement, with no interference from the useless thoughts.</p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>While walking in the mountain, a song in the mind eliminated any thoughts to blame the </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>situation,  still all the necessary knowledges and the control of the body kept functioning.</strong></span></p>
<p>When you need to find a new tactics or to be creative, let the mind become blank, hence, no useless thoughts</p>
<p>still all the necessary data of which the subconscious has been storing are available to deal with the needs.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, they automatically do far better job than ourselves.</p>
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<p>So, to resign thinking and<span style="color:#000080;"><strong> put the Mind into the Blank Space</strong></span>,  would bring better judgement and the</p>
<p>better way to live. &#8212;&#8211; (Time to time, it&#8217;s better to<span style="color:#000080;"><strong> hum a song than occupied by worries</strong></span> = humming a</p>
<p>song, may work better than Zen sitting, as it brings [Mushin] straight   🙂 )</p>
<p>And this is the reason why the Musicians are often having very close understanding of the spirituality.</p>
<p>( Except  the case, some times they got the feeling of spirituality mixed-up with the trance by a drug)</p>
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