Music is a reflection of humanity, of one’s personality, habit, and a way of life, ultimately illuminated into a product of culture. Music is also a way of expression, of the inner world of individuals, expressing one’s compassion and emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, worry, etc. It can also be applied as an instrument to reach the higher world such as religion, so that man and heaven can communicate.

There is also the sound of nature, needing neither composition nor lyric. It comes from the bottom of one’s heart through meditating on the “oneness’ of man and the universe.
This is called the “sound of heaven”, reflecting the coming and going of seasons and impermanence of things. In dharma, it is called “The sound from the heart and mind”. Deep inside everyone’s heart and mind, there are beautiful music and songs. The purpose of purification of one’s mind in Buddhism is to bring out the inner beauty of everyone through practices. By realizing the inner beauty of the sound of tranquility,  the turmoil of the outer world,  can be soothed with compassion, sincerity, peace, and harmony.

We need to propagate dharma by propagating the music of the soul. So that chaos in the world can be purified with the music blown from the Bodhi tree.

Text: Bhante D. Sakkaro; Translated: Stephanie Chin