Thread: origin of "su"
View Single Post
Old 06-06-2006, 06:48 AM   #23
Mike Sigman
Location: Durango, CO
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,123
United_States
Offline
Re: origin of "su"

Quote:
Drew Gardner wrote:
Isn't it the repeated "uuu" or "mmm" then, that creates the vibration? Why begin with 's' (su) or 'o' (om)?
Beats me. I get the idea, but I was never interested enough to get too deeply into it. If the sounds thing was still a big deal, I would have explored it more, but when I asked around I was assured that it wasn't a major factor.

"OM", by the way, is often considered 3 syllables: "A-U-M". There is a complicated byplay that has to do with the 3 tandens, starting with the one just above the perineum, then the main middle one, then the one behind the juncture of the eyebrows. These tandens are respectively are the "jin", "qi", "shen" centers. "A", "U", and "M" are the sounds used to "open" them, get them working, etc. There are a couple of pretty funky (if I may be so bold as to use the technical term) qigongs that start off with those sounds "opening" those tandens... real eyebrow raisers.

Oh well. FWIW

Mike
  Reply With Quote