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The Best Meditation Music Thread

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  • mantra0mantra0
    edited October 2010
    I'll add one link here:

    short loop MP3 file of om mani padme hum singing.
    http://ifile.it/sf7bu48
  • nanimonanimo
    edited October 2010
    I second that, mantra0.

    the manjushri mantra:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8NTMRgDso
  • shanyinshanyin Novice Yogin Sault Ontario Veteran
    edited November 2010
    I have this: http://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Meditation-Music-Nawang-Khechog/dp/B000OCY6YU

    excellent
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    edited November 2010
    Thanks everyone!
    If anyone has any others, please post.
  • JerseyJackJerseyJack
    edited November 2010
    This is my first post here. I'm curious about the use of music in meditation. Everything I've read has suggested that one should meditate in silence (except for the occasional bell, of course, and chanting when chant is practiced).

    I am a musician and I would love to meditate to music, but I'm reluctant because of the resistance to this idea among meditation teachers. Has anyone encoutered teachers who encourage music during meditation? For those who have done this, how has music affected your experience? Any tips for integrating music into meditation?
  • exonesionexonesion
    edited November 2010
    Jersey Jack wrote: »
    This is my first post here. I'm curious about the use of music in meditation. Everything I've read has suggested that one should meditate in silence (except for the occasional bell, of course, and chanting when chant is practiced).

    I am a musician and I would love to meditate to music, but I'm reluctant because of the resistance to this idea among meditation teachers. Has anyone encoutered teachers who encourage music during meditation? For those who have done this, how has music affected your experience? Any tips for integrating music into meditation?

    Hello Jersey Jack, welcome to this forum.

    Firstly, to answer your questions.
    I've a meditation teacher who integrates music into meditation. The music played is soothing and calming, a contrast to other 'types' of music which agitates the mind. Those types of music destroys the purpose of meditation which is to calm the mind down until it comes to a standstill.

    Some meditation teachers prefer silence than music which is fine too.:D
    Soft music can help the listener to relax making meditation more enjoyable and much more fruitful. But after a period of time, the music will be stopped and silence will replace it.

    Music has one purpose or perhaps more. To me and many others the purpose is to soothe and calm the mind. However after the body and mind is relaxed to a certain degree it is much more beneficial to turn off the music and meditate in silence as they could become a hindrance at that point of time.
  • meditationmanmeditationman
    edited November 2010
    exonesion wrote: »
    Soft music can help the listener to relax making meditation more enjoyable and much more fruitful.

    Would you agree that it depends on the person meditating? I personally never have an issue relaxing, I have a white light visualization that I do that seems to work quite well.

    I'm not criticising your technique, I'm just asking, as I'm willing to experiment and try other experiences. I've never tried music, but if it may provide some new experience, I'm open to it. When I think about using music, I think about how distracting it could be.
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Anyone others?
  • NidishNidish
    Wang Xu Dong's "Acupuncture For The Mind"... I have it downloaded from a blog, and it's not up anymore... Though you might find it in google...
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Wang Xu Dong's "Acupuncture For The Mind"... I have it downloaded from a blog, and it's not up anymore... Though you might find it in google...
    Interesting!
    Thank you!
  • HawkinsHawkins Explorer
    edited January 2011
    Leon, I typically listen to bineal beats (brain wave music) typically Theta wave.


    :om:


  • ShiftPlusOneShiftPlusOne Veteran
    Hawkins, I don't think there are binaural beats there. My headphones have a stereo/mono switch and it makes that makes it easy to check. I should be able to hear the interference when on mono and tune out the interference on stereo. There's none of that in the video. I don't know if they encoded it wrong or if they just don't know what binaural beats are exactly.

    Try out Gnaural http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/ . It's a free, open-source binaural beat generator. You can lay leave the default pink noise, or you can replace it with an audio track. I have mine set to an Om Mani Padme Hum chant someone posted elsewhere on the forum.
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Hawkins, I don't think there are binaural beats there. My headphones have a stereo/mono switch and it makes that makes it easy to check. I should be able to hear the interference when on mono and tune out the interference on stereo. There's none of that in the video. I don't know if they encoded it wrong or if they just don't know what binaural beats are exactly.

    Try out Gnaural http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/ . It's a free, open-source binaural beat generator. You can lay leave the default pink noise, or you can replace it with an audio track. I have mine set to an Om Mani Padme Hum chant someone posted elsewhere on the forum.
    How interesting!
    What kind of tracks do you use?
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Leon, I typically listen to bineal beats (brain wave music) typically Theta wave.


    :om:


    This is very interesting!
    Thank you very much!
    Do you listen to them when you are meditating?
  • ShiftPlusOneShiftPlusOne Veteran
    Hawkins, I don't think there are binaural beats there. My headphones have a stereo/mono switch and it makes that makes it easy to check. I should be able to hear the interference when on mono and tune out the interference on stereo. There's none of that in the video. I don't know if they encoded it wrong or if they just don't know what binaural beats are exactly.

    Try out Gnaural http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/ . It's a free, open-source binaural beat generator. You can lay leave the default pink noise, or you can replace it with an audio track. I have mine set to an Om Mani Padme Hum chant someone posted elsewhere on the forum.
    How interesting!
    What kind of tracks do you use?
    Just the chant. I don't have anything else.
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Hawkins, I don't think there are binaural beats there. My headphones have a stereo/mono switch and it makes that makes it easy to check. I should be able to hear the interference when on mono and tune out the interference on stereo. There's none of that in the video. I don't know if they encoded it wrong or if they just don't know what binaural beats are exactly.

    Try out Gnaural http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/ . It's a free, open-source binaural beat generator. You can lay leave the default pink noise, or you can replace it with an audio track. I have mine set to an Om Mani Padme Hum chant someone posted elsewhere on the forum.
    How interesting!
    What kind of tracks do you use?
    Just the chant. I don't have anything else.
    Do you upload the chant/track into that program?
  • ShiftPlusOneShiftPlusOne Veteran
    Yup, it acts as pink noise.
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Yup, it acts as pink noise.
    Interesting!
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