The emptiness of the bamboo becomes full of song, dance, celebration. As you will see yourselves, if you wish to see, you will notice some tremendous depth in the ethnic music, depth that you will not be able to find in any even the most "sophisticated" music created by the "professional" musicians. People's music is created not after going to some music school and studying all sorts of techniques and tricks on how to "make" music and how to play.
Ethnic musicians usually learn directly from the real musicians and not from some "professors" in the conservatories. There are plenty of other things that could be said about the ethnic music, but the prime and most fundamental aspect of it is that it is REAL and it is ALIVE, unlike nearly all other music there is.
One other interesting and quite unexpected aspect of it is that the ethnic music is meditative in its very nature. When you hear it, you are pretty much bound to "fall" into a meditative state. Just listening to its beauty and its Life carrying nature brings one to this very moment, a moment of beauty and joy. It gives one energy and creates an impetus to BE, to continue, to go on in Life, even if it is sad.
So, what distinguishes the ethnic music from nearly all other music is LIFE. It is the very carrier of Life and eternal reminder of the intrinsic Joy, Wisdom and Depth. Well, this is something very significant and even has some key level consequences. That is why it has to be spoken about. Yes, this is one of the most difficult subjects to talk about, but what to do? Just don't take every word here literally, on faith, because things are not as clearcut as it might look and there are exceptions and border cases everywhere and some things could be interpreted differently.
Everything with something as intangible as music is highly individualized and depends on the individual, his needs and a level of his growth. From the very start, I'd like to mention that one should not be listening to music all the time , like a background to everything you do. Because the effects might be just the opposite to what one hopes to achieve.
Because if you are always surrounded by the music, it has a zombifying effect. It takes over your mind and consciousness, or, rather, SUB-conscious, and you, without realizing it, simply become suggestive and passive, like a robot, driven by some program.
In a way, it works just like any drug. Because it may slant the deeper levels of your mind and soul, stuffing it, or jamming it with something that keeps you "busy", at least on the level of your mind, it may become a surrogate to real life.
It is not that easy to stay with your mind not constantly grinding something, being busy with something, just to keep it going. That is why many people, on the subconscious level, try to keep their minds busy with something nearly all the time, and the music is one of the simplest and easiest ways to occupy or even stuff the mind, especially on the subconscious level, with something that distracts it from the uncomfortable, difficult or less pleasant aspects of their daily life or work they do, especially if that work is pretty hard on your body.
Furthermore, music is used, nearly everywhere you look, to keep your mind distracted from that which actually lays before your eyes. This is particularly used and abused for the products sales.
There is a complete "science" of mind manipulation, created specifically to force your subconscious mind and slant it towards the particular desirable direction or the outcome they wish to achieve, either for the purpose of gain, or to distract you from those things, that you'd better be aware of. Furthermore, the "modern" music is full of purely mechanical patterns and the sorriest thing is that even those who create that music aren't even necessarily aware that they are simply zombifiying your minds and converting you into biorobots with those endless patterns and repetitions, most of which are not even creative, but may sound as something "cool", simple as that.
But what is "cool", no one even bothers to find out. Patterns, loops and repetitions become a pretty powerful influence on the mind if one keeps hearing them nearly everywhere. They are being constantly reinforced and eventually become some kind of a "norm", something "natural", which is not necessarily true. Music is a sacred door to the levels beyond physical.
Strictly speaking, music does not carry any "meaning". It is not about "meaning", but about what is called an "emotional tone", an attunement to certain wavelengths in the emotional domain. It rather creates certain moods and overall emotional tones and a certain kind of a background for your being, an environment.
But by itself, music is not meant to give you some "answers". Because it is an abstract language of deep emotional overtones. Yes, it may have some pretty powerful archetypal influence, meaning that it may bring you closer to the most fundamental levels of existence.
It may contain the "super-symbols" that may create the associations on the deepest levels of your being. It is like meditation. You don't sit in meditation all day long, nor do you eat non stop.
But you allocate some TIME to it, just like for your daily walk. Yes, there are some "border cases", where certain things you do may be benefited by the presence of musical background because that kind of activity allows for gaps in your attention in order for you to switch over to music. There are many cases and situations where music "does not hurt" or may even be something stimulating in certain kinds of activities.
But let us not get into all sorts of "nitty gritty" details. There is another aspect to it. If you are surrounded by the music all the time, then it looses its luster. It is no longer something "magical" and one becomes less and less sensitive to its most important and powerful aspects, such as stimulation of creativity and a sense of joy and beauty.
It simply becomes something blend. If you allocate some time to listen to the music while you are not busy with other things, then you attune to it on much deeper levels compared to those when you merely keep it as a background, something to keep your mind and subconscious busy. It is well known to the researchers that music stimulates your intelligence. It is difficult even to attempt to cover all the multiplicity of it.
Music, just like architecture and visual art presents the deeper levels of the mind and being with pretty powerful, yet abstract stimuli that help to establish new pathways and extent the very neural infrastructure of the brain. Basically, music to your Soul is like a water to a plant. But even a water can kill a plant, if there is too much of it. And even water can kill if it is poisoned. First of all, if you like any of the music here, don't just take it without giving anything back, else you will be simply parasiting, and parasiting on Creativity and its fruits is not good for your karma.
So, if you really like something here, and you will, because some of it is some of the most beautiful and creative music there is, no matter what, then why don't you consider going out and buying some albums of the authors you have downloaded , to support the creative people and those who worked to produce, engineer and manufacture it to make it available to you all.
Why not? Because WHO will support them and how and give them some income, so that they could keep working and bringing joy into your Hearts and Souls, if not YOU? Yes, every single one of you counts right now in ways never seen before on this planet, and you will certainly see it and become aware of it in the days and months to come. You can already see it right this very moment, if your awareness is functioning. Following are several audio recordings that are used for either brain "synchronization" or "brain entrainment" to allegedly facilitate the meditative states.
They are created as a result of numerous research studies of brain activity and observing the brainwave activity in "expert" meditators and then producing the sound wave patterns that allegedly stimulate the Theta brainwaves activity. It has been observed that in meditative state the brain exhibits the brainwave activity in the range of so called Theta frequency range.
We have not done the sufficient study of our own to verify all sorts of quite fantastic claims made as to the reality or benefits of it. But it is something at least to consider. If this really works, then it opens up quite some remarkable opportunities to speed up the growth of awareness. The music for one of the most powerful Chinese meditation technique called Falun Dafa falls into this category as it was meticulously crafted and designed to facilitate the brain activity in effect, even thought they might not specifically mention it.
But, if you ever try that meditation and you are sensitive at least to some degree, you will immediately notice the particular soothing effect made precisely with the help of music.
It may also noticed here that some particular ethnic musical instruments, such as Chinese erhu, Arabian oud, Moroccan pipes, Japanese shakuhachi flute, Japanese and Chinese string instruments and several other ethnic instruments, when played by the master musicians, have a tremendously meditation inducing effect, except we are not going to go into details about it here and will limit it by saying that ANY musical instrument is a miraculous creation.
For more information see:. Note: Some of these collections require using the headphones instead of regular speakers. If regular speakers are used, the effect will be either significantly reduced or utterly absent. Full frequency range stereo speakers may also be used if a listener is perfectly positioned to produce the maximum stereo effect basically, the speakers and the listener have to be located at the nodes of equally sided triangle.
Small computer speakers that poorly reproduce frequencies lower than Hz may make it ineffective. The best and prefferable choice is using the headphones when possible, regardless of other considerations. There are various techniques to produce the very low frequency sounds, that are not directly reproducible by the speakers or directly audible by the human ear, via different modulation techniques.
The human ear can hear the sound in the frequency range of 20 Hz to 20 Khz approximately, but brainwave activity occurs at much lower frequencies, generally in the range of Hz and thus below audible. That is why brainwave activity sound patterns need to be synthesized via various modulation techniques. It is noteworthy to say that some of these collections include some of very beautiful, non-aggressive, relaxing and meditative music.
So, for the music aspect alone, they are worth considering, regardless of their effectiveness as far as brainwave stimulation of a meditative state or "entrainment" goes.
One name that stands out, at least as far as beautiful meditation stimulating music goes, is Dr. Jeffrey D. Another name worth mentioning is The Monroe Institute and their Hemi-Sync collection, at least as far as meditative music goes. Brainwave Entrainment and Marketing Pseudoscience.
But there is no evidence, nor any theoretical basis, for any long lasting effect on brain function or that there is any benefit of any kind. Despite this, there is a huge industry of devices that claim to train your brain waves and have a beneficial effect. I wouldn't waste a dime on any such device.
Different people may find certain binaural beats to be relaxing or energizing. But, we've never found any reliable indication that a binaural beat's connection to our brain is any deeper or more meaningful than any other music track. We do know for a reasonable certainty that specific claims made by most sellers of binaural beats are not credible, and that there is no reason to think that the effect they're claimed to produce will work for you So, in summary, binaural beats certainly do not work the way the sellers claim, but there's no reason to think they're any less effective than any other music track you might listen to that effects you in a way you like.
If they make you sleepy like they all do for me , use them to go to sleep. If they relax you or get you amped, use them for that. But don't expect them to be any more effective than regular music.
Thompson is one of the top names on the brainwave stimulation and "entrainment" market. He is a prolific author and has produced a pretty large collection of brainwave related recordings. We can not confirm the claims about the effectiveness of his recordings, as far as meditation facilitation goes, but still, at least from the standpoint of music, it is worth a listen. It is quite relaxing. His collection of the classical music as a background for his recordings is certainly one of the most exquisite of what is available.
It is called "Dr. Jeffrey Thompson - Brainwave Symphony". On the top of it, his CDs are not much more expensive than plain music recordings, so it is worth a buy, regardless of the claims about meditation or anything else. What is quite wild about it, especially if we listen to the Earth Symphony recordings, is that there is something wild going on. It simply blows one's mind if he is a musician.
It turns out that the sounds we hear on these recordings are not just some noise, or even semi-tonal noise, or a pink noise as it is called. The sounds we hear have a clearly tonal characteristics, meaning that they sound like the notes of a musical instrument, and what is even more "wild" about it, is that they perfectly correspond to the tones of the musical scale, just like notes A, B, C, etc.
And that means that our musical scales were not just "invented" by some "genius". They simply represent the Cosmic Proportions. And, if THAT is the case, it means that all that we know, as to the "materialism" is not only a myth, but one of the biggest lies in the entire history of this planet.
Not that matter does not exist. It does, simply because you can touch it. But what it also means that we were lied about the so called "random nature of existence". There are underlying and most fundamental LAWS operating "under the hood" and this information was withheld from the mankind, just to keep him from knowing the most important and fundamental principles of nothing less than Existence itself.
The real meditation music, created by those who are the meditators themselves, is a particular kind of music. Most of the music sold or promoted as meditative is not really meditative. Actually, some of it has basically nothing to do with meditation as such. It is basically a "tripping" music, meaning that yes, it is not aggressive, but, at the same time, much of it, if not most, is inducing the mind trips with all sorts of imagery of artificial and imaginary "beauty" or "tripping" of all kinds.
Basically, the meditation music should not induce any mental activity. That is the whole point of meditation. As soon as you create any kind of imagery or sound association and trigger the emotional level, there can be no meditation in principle. Meditation is emotion-less.
In real meditation there is no emotion and there is no thought process of any kind and no evaluation or comparison of anything whatsoever.
But this is too subtle to try to describe in words in short span of space we have here. So, "the moral of the story" is that you need to learn to be aware and distinguish the music that in effect stimulates the mind activity and music that stimulates or reminds you nothing. As soon as it either paints something or reminds you something or creates any kind of imagery in your mind, that's it, it is no longer the meditation music. At best, it could be soothing and create some mellow and consoling "trips".
But those are going to be the mind trips, not meditation. That is all there is to it. There is no thought, no picture, no emotion, no joy, no misery. There is only peace, balance and a state of "presence", as some call it. In meditation you are "present" this very moment and are aware or observant of your own Self and all the surrounding. Not all the music in the list below could be classified as genuinely meditative by those who are real meditators and know about meditation first hand and not from some book.
Actually, it isn't quite easy to classify the music as strictly meditative as any music is multi-dimensional. It has nearly infinite number of aspects, some of which may have to do something with meditation, but not all, by far. But at least most of the music below is not aggressive or violent, at least for the most part, even though most of the musicians and producers are not likely to be the real meditators themselves.
So, they start mixing things, adding some embellishments to make it "more beautiful", and trying to make it look like something meditative, but those are just mind constructions for the most part that came out of some stories they have read in some book or from some "teacher" or a "group leader". There are plenty of those nowadays. The "spiritual business" these days is probably the hottest it has ever been in the entire history.
Or, you can specify how fresh the collection is in terms of days since publication. For example, the next search will produce only that which was released during the last 90 days. Note that we are searching only for AUDIO releases, as you can see in the checkboxes below the search string.
The following collection contains various samples, textures and sound effects that could be used for creating new music. Some of it stands as music by itself and could be listened as any other music and some of it, such as samples, is not meant to be listened as music, but to be used in music composition.
Psybient and other dancey styles, that are not aggressive, like techno, trance, disco, house and other more aggressive styles, is very good for dancing, and dancing is extremely powerful way of bringing yourself and your focus into the energies of your body that easily extend into the energies of your real Self. It is best to dance not being distracted by other people dancing around you. Because then the ego may get involved pretty heavily and you may start dancing just to "show off" and pretending that you are this or that.
For meditative purposes, it is best to dance alone. Just go into some room where there is some physical space around you so that you don't bump into things if you close your eyes.
Then start some soft dancey music and allow your body to express itself in the most natural way. Try not to interfere with your ideas, especially from the past. No sharp or overly strong and rapid movements are conductive. Yes, it might help you to throw out some of the neurosis within you, but eventually you have to move beyond mere neurosis and merge with more subtle energies of your body, which will inevitably be more gentle and harmonious, if you allow it and really get in touch with your Self.
Do not try to imitate anything or anyone, and do not try to use some known body movements, seen from others. There is no need for that. It is nothing but a hindrance, as far as meditative aspect goes. The only one that "counts" is YOU. Try to dance with your eyes closed most of the time. Open them only if you are concerned with bumping into things around you. But stay with your eyes closed and merely observe how your arms, spine, the mid-part of your torso move.
Do not project the ideas that may and are likely to arise while you dance. About the ONLY thing that "counts" is that you become aware of the natural energies of your body, and through them, begin to sense the energies of your "higher", or more "subtle" Self.
Yes, they are separate, but that separation is pretty arbitrary, like a separation between your arms and your torso. The most valuable thing in dancing is the energy aspect, and through that aspect, you begin to perceive the beauty of the dynamic structures you will be painting with your arms and hands. When you dance, the energies are so powerful that your mind stops functioning and you begin to experience the tremendous silence within, which is what meditation is all about.
Meditation simply means utter inner silence, when your mind no longer grinds or focuses on some external objects. Anything else is just noise and distortions. We will describe a few technical things for those who are interested to know about how does it all work "under the hood".
This is not meant to be an exhaustive technical discussion. For those technically inclined, they should be able to find the info elsewhere. This is basically for "mere mortals" or "simple people". Magnet links are used to uniquely identify the collection of information so the clients, running a torrent program and participating on some torrent, could be found either via tracker list provided by the magnet link or via DHT network which is used for decentralized access to some torrent.
In this case, the only way to find anyone would be to use the DHT network. The DHT network does not need any trackers.
As long as you have the DHT enabled in your torrent program, you will be able to find the other nodes, participating on a given torrent, if they also have the DHT enabled.
The most essential part of a magnet link is the key, which uniquely identifies some collection and allows to find the on-line peers that are currently on line and participating in this torrent.
The key is constructed by calculating the cryptographic hash value of all the files in a torrent collection. Thus, the collection files can not be forged or modified. Magnet link maps exactly one-to-one to the corresponding torrent.
The magnet link does not contain the actual torrent file. It is simply a key. To access the collection, a torrent program needs to find at least one client with actual torrent file currently on line. That data contains the full and detailed description, or a cryptographic hash, as it is called, of every single "piece" of every single file in a collection, contained in the torrent files.
Once the client has this data, it may start requesting the actual data from the suppliers. Technically, the only essential information in a magnet link is the key. All other data in the magnet link is optional, even the collection name. It will be obtained from the actual torrent file. But it is a good idea to also provide a few trackers in the magnet link. Else, if DHT is not enabled in the requesting peer torrent program, then it will be impossible to find peers if there are not trackers specified.
But the trackers get outdated eventually and go off-line forever. So, if your torrent was not created recently, there is no guarantee that there exists a single working tracker available on line. That is why the DHT is the final and the best choice of locating the clients. The DHT network can not get "outdated" in principle, because it is not tied up to any particular host.
Hosts come and go, but the DHT network still functions regardless. DHT is used to be able to find other people with the same torrent without the help from the trackers. Trackers come and go and their addresses get outdated. So, if you find some very old torrent, the trackers it specifies may no longer exist. Peer Exchange is used to be able to find as many people participating in some torrent, as possible, and in the fastest possible time. Peer Exchange means that when your torrent program contacts some other client with the same torrent, that client will return to you a list of all other clients on this torrent it knows about, if he has the Peer Exchange option enabled in his program and you also have it enabled.
This allows for very fast and efficient location of all the clients for some torrent. Effectively, if you have a Peer Exchange enabled in your torrent program then you become just like any regular tracker for that torrent assuming the consumer clients have PeX also enabled in their torrent program. Otherwise, you are not helpful to them in terms of finding more peers. The difference between torrents and sync approach is that with sync your collection remains dynamic and always current, and may be extended, modified or updated by the originating party and all those who have a master key.
This means that instead of downloading all sorts of torrents and collections all the time you have just a few key collections that contain all the current and most updated versions of information. Torrents are static in their nature and can not be changed, updated or extended. Otherwise, the torrent and sync based approaches are effectively equivalent as far as reliability, speed or the ability to distribute the information on a P2P basis.
Yes, for "classic" collections it may be prefferable not to change anything in a collection to make sure it is not damaged or changed, with intention or not, does not matter. But, generally speaking, nearly any information is dynamic and changes or gets updated, either periodically or constantly.
So, with the sync approach you have the access to some collection by merely knowing the collection key and all those who are interested in that collection have the access to the "latest and greatest" version of it and are located and connected to it automatically, without any further action. This is a bit funny.
This chapter was commented out because things went to a different place in this document. But, for some strange reason, it was not totally deleted, and now comes the "bang" factor. So, let us look at various things that have to do with awareness, meditation and a state of presence as some call it.
Well, this issue just came up today, and when I looked at it, it looked as something short of weird. Here's the issue:. The thing is that meditation is essentially a state of presence, a total silence in your mind from thinking and analytic processes. So, from this point of view, when you listen to something, you have you as an observer and that which you observe, which is music.
But doesn't it imply that you mind is functioning? Because in "PURE" meditation, there is no observer and there is no observed. There is no such separation. Else, you have a thought process, and, willingly or unwillingly, there is a subtle analysis going on, such as recognition of musical patterns, rhythms, tones and so on, which, in turn, means that your mind is still present.
So, how could there be any meditation in this case? On the other hand, you have, for example, Sufi whirling meditation that is conducted on the background of the drum beats. The same you can find in Asian meditations. There is often music present.
Or, in India, there is a meditation related to concentration on a light candle. But how could this be the meditation if there is an external stimuli of some kind, which, even though invisibly, triggers the mind processes. On the other hand, even if you turn the music off or take the candle away, you still have all natural background stimuli, such as environmental sounds, visual things and so on.
So, the key point in all this is that it is not the issue of whether there is or there is not some stimuli present, but whether you are separate from it, which means that you do not really "listen", but you merge and become "one" with it, be it music, an image or anything else.
For example, in TaiChi meditations, there is no music and there is no image, but there is only a movement. Yes, music MAY be present, but it is not a required factor. God Bless You. Reviewer: rakesh - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 3, Subject: impressed thank you for this.
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