YOGA OF LISTENING

Eugene begins by saying that the talk is going to be about sound and listening to sound, a yoga called ‘Nada Yoga’. He equates the word ‘nada’ with the ‘logos’ of the fourth gospel. In the beginning was creative sound. The Universe, and everything in it, was created by vibrations, by the undulations of a force. Space is a ‘sonoriferous ether’, the medium in which this force operates. For any motion to occur in this ether there has to be a contraction of it onto a point. “Every motion in the universe begins with a contraction of a field of power.” That field of power is what we call ‘space’. Until the twentieth century, scientists thought that space was empty apart from bodies within it, bodies made of atoms. The problem resulting from this view was that the atomic bodies identified, such as the Earth and other planets, clearly behaved in an orderly manner, rather than accidentally. Even more puzzling was how all atomic structures on Earth could similarly be organised in patterned ways into crystals, vegetables, animals and humans if atoms were ‘solid’ and space was empty. We now know that all is energy vibrating at different rates and scientists talk of ‘field theory’ to explain the patterning. We now know that space is not empty, in fact it is full: of energy. Buddhism has known this since the time of the Buddha, but for western science it is a relatively recent finding. Yet, in one sense, it is obvious that if we consider the space around an object we are using our consciousness to do this and the moment we define an area of space we have made it an object for our consideration, so there cannot be free space with no content.

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