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Tao of the Kung The present moment is the place where everything happens. It's always happening and happening right now. Ease into it and get comfortable with it. Lay down that heavy load you've been dragging around with you every second of the day and move into true freedom. Travel where the wagon ruts are deepest. It's the place where time has no power; where past and future bow out to the moment in the present. |
Feel like you're spinning on a hamster wheel? Having trouble centering on what's really important in your life? Feeling powerless and confused? Tired all day and sleepless all night? If you read, yes, read any of these questions, you may be in need of the Tao of the Kung Check it out, get centered and get rested. Thousands of people listen to The Tao of the Kung from Sydney to Cincinatti, from the UK to Singapore. The Tao of the Kung is woven around the F-Tone, middle F. Enhance your Yoga, meditation, relaxation or regain focus on your daily activities as you become aware of the present moment. If you have trouble sleeping and are burned out on your Ambien, put the CD on and get used to sleeping all night until the alarm goes off in the morning. The F-Tone note is middle "F" above middle "C" on the piano, (698Hz). It is known as the "tonic of nature". The Voice of the Silence by H. P. Blavatsky says: "The Northern Buddhists, and all Chinamen, in fact, find in the deep roar of some of the great and sacred rivers the key-note of Nature. Hence the simile. (Middle F, the "F-Tone", is the note associated with the 4th, green, heart chakra). "It is a well-known fact in Physical Science, as well as in Occultism, that the aggregate sound of Nature-such as heard in the roar of great rivers, the noise produced by the waving tops of trees in large forests, or that of a city heard at a distance -- is a definite single tone of quite an appreciable pitch". This is shown by physicists and musicians. Professor Rice (Chinese Music) shows that the Chinese recognized the fact thousands of years ago by saying that "the waters of the Hoang-ho rushing by, intoned the kung" called "the great tone" or "the great emptiness" in Chinese music; and he shows this tone corresponding with the F, "considered by modern physicists to be the actual tonic of Nature." Also mentioned in "Principles of Physics", saying that "this tone is held to be the middle F of the piano; which may, therefore, be considered the key-note of Nature." Vibrations are at the heart of our existence. Some go unnoticed, like subsonic vibrations and supersonic vibrations as well. B-Flat is a a fourth or fifth of F, depending on whether you're looking up to it or down on it, and for the last 10 million years or so it's playing that B flat out of the event horizon of a black hole in the Perseus galaxy at sufficient volume to be detected from Earth. It bellows b-flat 57 octaves below middle C. Those vibrations are creating extremely intense heat, power great enough to escape the black hole, that's some serious tone! If you listen closely to the Tao of the Kung you will notice the B-flat presence throughout. It resolves to the "F" but the b-flat comes in and out against the constant middle f undertone. |
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Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed wavelike features that appear to be sound waves. X-ray Image: NASA/CXC/IoA/A.Fabian et al. |
[Image: Jackie Dee Grom, Antarctic ventifacts. From Cabinet]. |
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The B-Flat Mountain Range in Antarctica also plays b-flat through its fluted, wind eroded mountain rocks. "The multi-directional winds in this eerie and isolated wasteland create ventifacts of an exceptional nature, gouged with pits and decorated with flowing flutes and arching curves."
Turn up the Tao of the Kung so it's about the same volume as the ambient sounds around you. When you get it "tuned in", it will appear that the sounds of the Tao of the Kung and the sounds around you seem to come from the same place and share a common cadence. The F-Tone makes a mantra that is quite easy to use. Listen to the tone. When you notice you aren't listening to it, go back to it and listen some more. Before long you will become aware of it for longer intervals with the ability to allow thought to pass downstream. You are keeping your focus in the moment when this occurs and have taken your first steps on the path. The Tao of the Kung combines with the other noises of the day to create an orchestrated experience of the moment. There is a natural timing in all sounds that is not always easy to feel. The Tao of the Kung opens a door into that world of cadence and harmony as it relaxes your spirit and brings you into harmony with the moment.
The Tao of the Kung will help you get to sleep and stay asleep. If you have little kids or "overactive" kids that don't settle down easily at nap time, try playing the Tao of the Kung for them and watch what happens. It will drop your blood pressure a few degrees as they relax. We know a lady from China who lives in a very noisy apartment. She likes to turn the CD on in the background while she's at home. It makes the incidental, random noises sound more musical and the overall effect, according to Jing, is a calming one resulting in a lightness of being and a greater enjoyment of her life.
