The above photograph shows quite clearly how sometimes a healing or blessing can feel like a punishment! We now have Chinese bowl gongs.
They are great musical objects as well as having their own profound healing and meditation tones.
Read what we have to say about them on their pages.
Back in the day, many Buddhist monks used their singing bowls not only for performing shamanic rituals and healing in the mountains of Tibet, Nepal, and India, they also begged with them for food.
But remember, begging was part of a monk's training; it wasn't like they were sitting on the sidewalks demanding you give them spare change for their off-key Bob Dylan impersonation.
It was Baba Dylananda...
You've gone to the finest ASHRAM all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody's ever taught you how to live in a Chinese Occupied Territory
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never dematerialize
With the Dalai Lama, but now you realize
He's not eating burgers and fries Vegetarian!
As you stare into the compassion of his eyes
And ask him, if you can peek... UNDER HIS ROBE?
How does it feel?
To be full of SOUL
With no change for the TOLL
Like a whale without a blowHOLE
Like a SINGING BOWL?
MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE MALLETHEADS KNOW THIS: It's not the bowl, it's the bowler. What we mean is, it's more about where you are coming from - your intent - than the perfection of the object.
If you're ready to center yourself, or heal yourself and others with tone and sound, then YOU ARE THE INSTRUMENT more than the bowl.
And GOD WILL BE THERE TO BOWL WITH YOU. With the Creator on your BOWLING TEAM, you'll be throwing strikes in no time.
It's that simple.
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