So, Quan Yin means contemplating the sound. Now, I’ll explain something more about the sound so that you understand. In order to practice to be near God we must follow the source, the stream, the life current — to go back to where it comes from because we come from that. Just like the river, if we go along the river side, we’ll go back to the source where the river comes from. Now the sound manifests itself in many stages. The coarsest stage is in this world.

And we hear many things — music, talking, language. We use this kind of visible or audible sound to the ordinary ears to communicate and even to transmit some of the understanding of the invisible sound. The invisible sound is God, which is also connected with this visible sound, but in a finer, in a more subtle degree. Once we understand what the so-called master or our teacher or our guide says about the invisible sound, and that we want to connect with that source, through the spoken words, then after instruction by this teacher or guide or expert, we can contact the finer sound which is above this physical sound, above this physical world. We must raise our consciousness higher in order to catch this sound.

Now our consciousness is just stuck in the physical body in different directions. Through the eyes, it sees things. Through the ears, it hears the sounds of the physical world. Through the touch, it experiences the surroundings and all the entities, and all the existing objects in this world. But if we withdraw this so-called consciousness to a certain point in the body, for example, here (Master points to the wisdom eye). Then, we can rise higher through this door to a more subtle world, in order to experience the more subtle levels of consciousness, the more subtle existences or worlds, and hear the more subtle sound.

But the subtle sound also connects with this physical sound, too. But it’s just on a different level. In order to hear that, we must be concentrated and somewhat distracted from the outer environment for a while. And the so-called masters or experts should be able to help us to do this in no time, immediately. That’s why it’s called immediate enlightenment. Enlightenment means we can see light. The light in us is enlightened. Now, we can see light or the heavenly world and hear the sound of the higher world. That’s what’s called enlightenment, through the process of sound connecting with the original sound of the universe, which is the “word” in the Bible, or the sound of many waters, etc. in the Buddhist Sutras. Anyone who is able to help us to connect ourselves with this original sound or God’s energy, is called a master.

In the physical world, we have only physical sound. Like a bird singing, the musical notes from instruments, the noise from cars and all that, strike the ears physically. In the spiritual world, we don’t need all these physical instruments in order to make or to hear the Sound.

It’s not that we need to hear the Sound. We need to elevate ourselves to where the Sound is, or where the Light is. The higher the better. It’s not in your mind. The soul has to be elevated out of the body, out of the physical world. Sometimes you are still here, you live in this world, you’re doing your work, you hear the Sound and see the Light, and you think you’re not in the spiritual world. You are, because the soul is not the body.

The soul exists outside of the body, outside of physical bondage, and merges itself into the spiritual world. That’s why you can hear the Sound and see the Light. At that time you exist on both levels — the soul level and the physical level. Most of the time people exist only on the physical level. That’s why they don’t hear the Sound, they don’t see the Light. Normally, we’re not physical. That’s why we can liberate ourselves out of the physical dimension and then we can hear the spiritual world.