Bells of Presence
In many Buddhist traditions, the sound of a bell is not a signal to begin something new. It is an invitation to stop. To pause the forward momentum of the mind. To release the pull of memory and anticipation. To arrive fully in this moment. This is known as the bell of mindfulness. Rather than […]
Listening as the More-Than-Human
Deep Listening invites us into this wider field. It asks us to hear not as a human interpreting nature, but as nature listening to itself.
Deep Listening & Time Traveling
When we truly listen, time begins to dissolve. Sound carries memory, imagination, and presence all at once—revealing that the past, present, and future are not separate.
The Silence That Listens
We think of it as an absence, a gap, a lack of something. But to those who listen deeply, silence is not the absence of sound. It is the presence of space.
Particle and Wave Listening
From a still point, perception unfolds—revealing not only what we hear, but how we know the world itself.
The Dance of Impermanence
Listening to the ever-changing world through sound
The Unstruck Sound: Listening for the Anāhata Nāda
A sound that has no beginning and no end.
This is the Anāhata Nāda — the unstruck sound.
Is Your Home Soundscape Harming Your Health?
Sound Healing: A Path to Creating a Peaceful Soundscape
If the noise in your home is contributing to stress or disrupting your emotional recovery, consider how a sound healing session can help. Sound healing can guide your body and mind back into balance by using calming, therapeutic sound frequencies to promote relaxation and restore harmony.
Mysticism of Sound & Music: Hazrat Inyat Khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan was a visionary Sufi mystic and musician who devoted his life to the exploration of music as a spiritual path. Born in India in 1882 into a musical family, he was trained in Indian classical music, and his early experiences with sound shaped his deep belief in the spiritual potential of music.
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (public library) is a remarkable new intellectual, creative, and spiritual biography of Cage — one of the most influential composers in modern history, whose impact reaches beyond the realm of music and into art, literature, cinema, and just about every other aesthetic and conceptual expression of curiosity about the world, yet also one of history’s most misunderstood artists — by longtime art critic and practicing Buddhist Kay Larson.