Drum Reiki

Drum Reiki By Reverend R Clark <clark@acceleration.net>

R Clark wrote:
> Kule. Reiki music... I approach this in much the same way as folks who
> channel Reiki to surrogate teddy bears and the like. I connect with source,
> intend the Reiki flow through my hands via the drum or other instrument to
> all who hear it.

At 01:33 PM 9/8/2004, Karen replied:
A drum also has a spirit within it, it is a living being (this is at least how I've been taught by Native American folks about the drum). So why not give your drum attunements? Then it, too, will be a channel for Reiki...the vibrations carrying it out as you activating it by playing.

Interesting... I am aware of the spirit of the tree and also the spirit of the animal whose skin was used each has a second life as "drum." These combined with the spirt of the player constitutes a holy trinity. I will try attuning my drums and see what effect this might have.

> Kule. Gotta love drum trivia, thank you! So in this story you relate, the
> lovely feminine Tara bows before the masculine "Drum Lord." Well that seems
> a bit on the sexist side.

Perhaps you need then a bit more of the story. ;)

Did I mention that I am a dilettante? I Am trying to overcome it in my inimitable superficial way, so I humbly give Many Thanks... (well as humble as I can muster cause I can't even be proud of my humility, so's I could then be humble about my exemplary humility, of course, and my humility, ...well frankly it's just not good enough to be humble about) ...for the happy opportunity to receive the Dharma you relate in the back story to the Tara energy I love. I did not know that.

At the time Tara was not yet Tara, but a princess named Yeshes Dawa ("Wisdom Moon"). She became very devout, offering many ways to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha during the aeon of the Buddha "Drum Lord." At one point, a monk approached her and suggested that due to her vast accrued merit, she could chose to be reborn as a male and then attain Bodhisattva and ultimately Buddha. You see, there was a strong tradition within Buddhism that only men attained enlightenment...

Is it still?

Her reply, as best I remember, was that in reality there is no male nor female;

A continuum, yes.

however, as many have attained Buddhahood in male form, she vowed to instead always seek enlightenment and benefit of sentient beings in female form. (Its described in the "Tantra of Tara")

"Tara is the Buddha of Enlightened Activity. She is the Swift Protectress and has vowed to remain till the end of time until all beings are liberated from confusion and sorrow."

Hardly submissive, she rebelled and she has ever since then stood for the importance of the feminine divine. Similar to the incarnations of Avalokitshevara as the subsequent Dalai Lamas (for example), she incarnates as well... always as women. One of her better known incarnations was the Tibetan Yogini Machig Labdron, the founder of the Chod tradition in Tibetan Buddhism.

And she's hardly just what we might think of her as "the lovely feminine Tara"! Dispelling all fears experienced by sentient beings, she manifests 21 forms ranging from the most peaceful (such as White Tara) to the most wrathful (such as Red Tara)... One of her more wrathful forms is described as a "lady who strikes with the palm of the hand and pounds with her feet the surface of the earth, who frowning, shatters the seven underworlds with the syllable HUNG." (The latter from the traditional "Praises to the 21 Taras".) Hardly demure. ;) The feminine divine also represents *fierce* compassion!

Related:
Drumming 'n Drugs
Drumming As A Form of Prayer by Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi Awatisgi)
Drumming Peace One Oh One
Drum Reiki
Drums: How they beat stress by By Ann Trieger Kurland
Finding Healing Music in the Heart by Corey Kilgannon
Healing, Drumming & Praying by Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi Awatisgi)
Melodic Instruments at Drum Circles
Sound
Prayer
Shamanism: Drumming and/or Drugs
Voices at Drumcircles: Testimony and Theories

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