Listening to the singing bowls of Tibet is like taking a ‘sound massage’. The ancient art of manufacturing one of these singing bowls centres upon creating a sound that resounds for a remarkably long time with rich overtones which are arranged in such a way that an extremely long drawn out oscillation in the note can be heard, the sound swells and ebbs away again softly like the great rhythm of the ocean conveying the feeling that its massaging effect washes clean the listeners soul.
The very slow dying away
The very slow dying away of the sound takes the listener out of the actual sound itself to the limit of what is audible finally awakening us to the klangmassage wien sound within a sphere of rare depth that can at the same time be profoundly felt, it is this ability of the bowls to penetrate and charge the air with their spiritual vibration, long after the actual sound had ceased that led to their being called singing bowls. The bowls can also be stroked with a wooden wand conveying the experience of an eternal “om” sound gradually emerging from nothing, enfolding, enriching our auric field.
Every singing bowl has its own individual personality which means that it can never really pressed into an exact conventional musical scale, together with other bowls. They were never intended to be used in this way, although sometimes, heilmasseurin wien a set of bowls where made. Yet, another reason is their incredible array of overtones, making it difficult to hear a single pitch. However we can place them in families such as sets of Yin, Yang or Water Bowls etc.
The Way of the Bowls was visualised as imaginary journey around this garden-of-sound, moving between several families of bowls, whilst we are exploring their unique psychic [http://www.ghosts-angels.com], psycoacoustical properties.
Mostly associated with the pre-Buddhist Sad faith
Being mostly associated with the pre-Buddhist Sad faith, the bowls have more of an association with psychic practises, common to such shamanistic cultures and therefore we could say that the psychic content of the bowls are more significant than the earthy sounds which they produce incredible as these are, living in a modern age of materialistic thinking, it is possible to simply be fascinated purely by the unique sounds produced by these remarkable bowls and so ignore their capacity for altering our inner psychic nature. The actual act of playing a bowl requires the utmost concentration if we are to avoid unpleasant sounds and if we are to surrender ourselves fully and enter into a state of atonement with the bowl.
