Sound

lobster

Heard on another thread ...

Today Calcetines and I finally went back into the garden, and I made a recording right before I meditated standing. It's just us playing in the grass; Calcetines running, digging, walking slowly and exploring; it's just a nice happy sound.
Has anyone done this, recording some favorite sounds and noises to meditate? If no, what would you record?

Nature
https://www.calmsound.com

ASMR
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

... and traditionally chanting

Listening meditation is a formal tantric sitting technique I was taught. I tend to be visually orientated in my thinking. Others are auditory, kinesthetic ...
https://trans4mind.com/personal_development/mindMastery/languageAndModalities.htm

My favourite sound recording would probably be beating butterfly wings ...
https://tinyurl.com/y8ogd2o4

lobster

most of us are familiar with ... Mantrayana

In Pyitsayãna silent form, we concentrate inward attention on mantra, not to be confused with the clapping of a single hand or double tongue ...

The condition known in western medicine as tinnitus is considered in Ayurvedic medicine to possibly be caused by spiritual awakening to the anahata.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nāda_yoga

Vimalajāti

not to be confused with the clapping of a single hand or double tongue

I deleted my last comment, because apparently something I thought was correct for a long time was very, very, wrong. Now I have to put something else! Oh dear!

lobster

Tee Hee.

It is unsound to be right but wrong to feel one is wrong. In other words doubt when it is not obsessive/clinical self doubt, can be unsettling. In a similar way the trump judges and certain dharmaists are little more than self amusers ...

To be independent of our opinions, that is a sound mind ... (IMHO)