"Do" the Present

The Tao of the Kung is a CD, based on the note, middle F, above middle C on the piano. This note is also the Heart Chakra and is referred to as the F-Tone. But the CD is really about learning to feel comfortable and quiet in the present moment . Check it out below, there's a lo-fi mp3 version, play it and hear for yourself.  It may take you to a place where time is a non-issue. Consider the Tao of the Kung a peak through the keyhole into the nature of this vibratory experience of life.

The F-Tone is the Tonic of Nature

The F-Tone note is middle "F" above middle "C" on the piano, (698Hz). It has been referred to 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" Middle F is also the tone of the Green, Heart Chakra. From atoms to galaxies, everything is vibrating. Even seemingly inanimate objects are made up of these oscillating atoms. At the atomic level, rocks, dirt and trees are just as much alive as me or you, vibrant and vibrating. Nothing gets wasted, nothing gets used up, nothing dies. Everything is alive, in the present moment, there is no other.

Everything is vibrating...

Each chakra has a unique color and tone. Click one to feel its vibration; charge those chakras up.
you body is made up of several centers that are associated with tone and color. The Chakras are a good introduction to our relationship with vibration both light and sound. Listen to the tones associated with each of the main chakras.

Root

Sacral Solar Plexus Heart Throat

Third Eye

Crown
Red
Root - C
Sacral
Orange - D
Solar Plexus
Yellow - E
Heart
Green - F
Throat
Blue - G

Third Eye
Indigo - A

Crown
Violet - B

Some vibrations go unnoticed, like subsonic vibrations and supersonic vibrations as well. B-Flat is a a fourth or fifth of F and for the last 10 million years or so it has been 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. 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." 

A Black Hole in the Perseus Galaxy and the B-Flat, Antarctic Mountain Range are both vibrating a B flat, in perfect harmony with the F-Tone

 

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].

"Synchronize" the Tao of the Kung to the sounds around you

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 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 or cadence in all sounds andit's not always easy to feel it. The Tao of the Kung opens a door into that world of cadence and harmony as it relaxes your spirit, bringing you into the peace and harmony of the moment. If you like how it makes you feel, you may want to use middle "F", or the f-tone, as a mantra. The F-Tone mantra is easy to use. You just listen to it. When you notice you aren't listening to it, go back to it and listen some more. No need to get upset about it when thoughts arise, go back to the tone and listen some more. Before long you will become aware of it for longer intervals and will develop the ability to let your thoughts to pass "downstream" without lingering on them. When you are no longer attracted or distracted by your thoughts and stay unattached, and fully aware of the f-tone, you are reaching that chilled out state, the inner calm, the serene reflection, the doorway to love, the place of rest. It's always been there, you just hadn't yet noticed it.