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As I edit these recordings I pay particular attention to different aspects of the wave-form – the amplitude, which indicates the variation in loudness…the clarity…the clicks, crackles, plosives and also the speed of delivery and length of spaces.
Knowing that the content is challenging enough in itself to engage with. . . I can modify all of these, or re-record words or phrases in an attempt to make it as clear, and ‘easy on the ear’, for you as possible.
This time, within the wave-form of the words with which James concludes his introduction to the text, I noticed (my mind construed from lines of different lengths) some particular patterns or shape-formations within the wave. For me, they evoked stupas resounding, and prayer-wheels resonating . . .
So I abstracted them, and turned them on their sides…adapting them, to better fit my projection and for this post! : )
The first is an image of the words ‘C.R. Lama opened the dazzling field of dharma to our world-weary eyes’
The words that come before that are ‘Giving everything… and asking for nothing except our own efforts on the path’. . .
The second image is of the words which follow that …’The kindness of the Guru can never be repaid!’
In this recording James explains how applying ourselves to these Mahayana teachings can help us to move to the ‘third stage of peaceful equanimity free of attraction and aversion’…and how this third stage may be ripened into full fruition…
