Sypathetic Vibrations

Sympathetic vibrations, a term familiar to all musicians, refers to the phenomenon of something vibrating in sympathy with something else vibrating.  We've all had the experience of an annoying sound which seems to come from nowhere.  We keep wondering Where is that terrible sound coming from?  We trace it down and find that it is coming from, for example, a fan.  But the fan is not on and is unplugged.  So how can it sound?  Then we find that there's someone outside using a jackhammer which is sending out its strong vibrations, not only to the operator but also to our fan!  The fan is vibrating in sympathy with the jackhammer, perhaps even feeling sorry for the jackhammer operator!


When I was working on my screen play about my twin and me, I thought of calling it Sympathetic Vibrations.


So what's sympathetic vibrations got to do with The Lotus Sutra and Me?   My reflections here in this blog always come out from something in my soul that vibrates in sympathy with something I am chanting from the Lotus Sutra.  It's what's often called an Ah-Ha! experience.  I have been chanting the second and sixteenth chapters of the Lotus Sutra since 1984, and still I have those ah-ha moments.  It's like there are moments in reciting the Our Father that suddenly we experience Thy kingdom come as if hearing it for the first time.


Sympathetic Vibrations.  I have learned to never ignore anything read, seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or felt that sets off something that gets my soul vibrating.