MEDITATION EXERCISE "PEACE NOW THOU HUM"

The Placement of the Eight Auspicious Signs of the Buddha upon the Face

For a 'plainer' version -- see The "Peace Now Thou Hum" Five-Minute Exercise

updated 6/3/04 tweaked 7/2/04

START HERE - FOLLOW THE NUMBERS

1 The Precious Vase here signifies the Buddha's chin, drawn upward in a gesture of compassion for all beings.

  • Twelve fast bellows-breath inhales with buttocks and anal sphincter squeezes, opening and closing hands, palms forward. (inhale) "UM" (exhale) "HAH!"

2 The Flowering Upwards of the Heart's Petals.

3 The pursed lips' 'sage' smile of widsom.

  • PEU PEU PEU on the outbreath

  • EU EU EU on inbreath.

  • On the heartbeats.

4 Ten endless breaths, giving the in to the outbreath.

    • Focus on the coolness of the inhale, sign on exhale.

    • (exhale) PEU PEU PEU

    • (inhale) EU EU (on heartbeat)

    • Keep going as you gradually and 'isometrically' widen the smile, tensing the EU with a gradual EH EH EH.

5 The Blue Upper Curls of the Wisdom Smile

    • (upper lip flat on upper teeth)

    • EH EH EH EH EH EH

6 The Red Victory Banner of Shabdh (Ringing Silence)

  • (notes are g-a three octaves above middle C)

7 The Wheel of Absolute STillness, relaxation and centered-ness.

  • EE EE EE EE EE EE EE

8 The Golden FIsh of prana moving up the nostrils to the Ajna (third eye)

  • EE EE EE EE EE EE (on the heartbeat)

9 The White Conch of the Ajna - Descend of the Goddess (mind "blows" here)

  • EE EE EE EE EE (on the heartbeat)

10 The Seven Rays Emanating - Seven Horsemen of Her Radiant Retinue.

  • EE EE EE EE EE EE Eye muscles crinkled?

11 Mother Love and Newborn SSSSSSS crickets Summer locusts

  • SS SS SS SS SS SS SS

12 Birth of Newborn - SH tongue to move out of mouth

  • SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH SH

13 TH begins the THOU with tongue pulsating between lips.

  • TH TH TH TH TH ("Please never leave us!")

14 THA inbreath and outbreath on heartbeat

  • Acknowledgements of various gratitudes to all beings.

15 FULL THOU - Endlessness

  • THOU THOU THOU THOU THOU THOU THOU

16 Mouth begging to close

    • DAH DAH DAH

    • to NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW Inside mouth.

    • Pull up frontal chin muscles -- to express boundless compassion.

17 Migrate the NOW to the uvula and soft palate

18 Our Natural Optimism Feeds All Hungry Ghosts

  • HUM HUM HUM HUM HUM HUM HUM HUM HUM

19 (EE-AWW-OHH-OOH-EHH-EE) Gates Open

20 SAHAJA SAMADHI - AT EASE THERE

FOREWORD: The full sound meditation phrase is "PEACE THOU OM" pronounced over a period of breaths as

"PEU-UNH-PEU-EU-EH-EE-EE-EE-SS-SH-SH-TH-AW-OW-HM-MM."

AFTERWORD: We must understand that "We are all of us responsible for the enmeshment in the current nightmare.

Why?

Because if even one of us had awakened totally to our innately Bodhisattvic THAT-ness, then the divine presence thus manifesting on this material plane would emanate such THUS-ness and Peacefulness that all beings would feel a bubbling happiness rising up from toes higher and higher into their bodies until it immerses them up to their chests, their throats, their chins -- totally drowning them in enstasy after one delicious quivering 'I am dying' fear of total ego-loss dissolution. But then, they just S U R R E N D E R.

QUESTION: Must the heartbeat and breath merge with the beating of angelic wings?

NOTE: For more information on pumping the uvula (#17) -- please read "Why Is The Buddha Smiling?"

NOTE: Inasmuch as the face is the reflection of the whole body, one can also apply the map to the complete physical being - i.e. the vase on the chin (#2) becomes the vase-shaped lower belly, the flowering lotus the heart, the endless breath knot the throat, etc. etc.