temple bells - how to use?

Thu Jul 8 12:22:11 PDT 2010

A wee bit out of context (or not).

I sometimes take my bells on hikes, find a quiet place in the woods and
settle in quietly.

Once the environment (wildlife) forgets my intrusion and goes back about its
normal business, I ring the bells once . . . and watch.
 I find them to be just as powerful out there in the "rough" as they are in
a room full of people.

b

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Steve Cochran <scochran305 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wendy's MO is mine as well for the opening and closing. Thanks
> for 'charging and conditioning' idea - I'll use it.
>
> In addition, I usually have mine in my briefcase at all times and find many
> chances to offer to use them in all kinds of situations that seem to need
> them (vs. yelling or clapping to get attention).  As we all know, it's
> wonderful to see how people respond. Always helps a community come together
> in a much moer gentle way than most folks have experienced. Often times,
> someone who knows me in such a setting will seek me out and ask, "Do you
> have your bells?"
>
> Thank you for this discussion, karolina - wonderful.
>
> Best to All - Steve
>
>   On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil <wendy at xe.net>wrote:
>
>> Really good points, Chris.
>>
>> I use the bells only as part of my initial opening of the space and then
>> to open the closing circle.  I often use them before participants arrive to
>> condition and charge the space as a lot of venues have cluttered energy or
>> low energy.  I've found ringing them in the corners of the room and in the
>> center of the space (and anywhere else that intuition says needs a lift)
>> helpful. (Again, I do this before other participants arrive, as part of
>> general set up.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wendy
>>
>>  On 8-Jul-10, at 9:35 AM, Chris Corrigan wrote:
>>
>>  Bells can get overused and can lose their appeal and charm, so use them
>> infrequently and with the pacing and mindfulness that Lisa and Wendy both
>> suggest.
>>
>> Also, be careful how you pick them up.  I find that the bells reveal one's
>> inner state like nothing else.  If you pick them up without consciousness,
>> and you grab the cord in the middle, they clatter and ring and crash and
>> lose their power, and you will find yourself embarrassed and apologetic.  In
>> all things balance is good, but not in picking up ting sha.  If you pick up
>> the bells by the cord holding them closer to one end or the other, the bells
>> won't collide.  That way when you finally do ring them the sound will have
>> been previously unheard and therefore more powerful.
>>
>> Finally, something I have learned working in Native communities here in
>> Canada...if there are a lot of Elders in the room, the bells will often
>> remind them of the time they went to Church-run residential schools which
>> were resulted in very traumatic experiences for many many people.  As a
>> result I rarely use bells anymore in these contexts, preferring instead to
>> call people back together with a drum or some other more appropriate
>> attention-getting sound.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>  ----
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>>
>>
>>  On 2010-07-07, at 8:57 AM, Lisa Heft wrote:
>>
>>  I bow to you, Ms. Karolina.
>>
>> I only know what I have noticed.
>>
>> 1) If you ring them 'to let people know things) - for example to signify
>> the change in time for sessions - you are actually breaking into peoples'
>> thought process. And there are always enough timepieces (electronic and
>> otherwise) that people have and even clocks on the wall, plus session
>> convenors' interest in their next sessions - to let people know in a
>> participant-centered (rather than facilitator-driven) way when the time is
>> shifting.  So when I do it, I only ring them at one certain time - to draw
>> peoples' attention to the fact that Closing Circle is beginning. When I
>> introduce how the day will go (usually after they post their topics on the
>> wall), I include the fact that I will not be telling them about time, that
>> they have these timepieces, but that I will see them in Closing Circle at
>> ''x o'clock" and that I will be in the room if they have any questions.  And
>> when I use them this once - they really capture peoples' attention, because
>> they have not over-heard it.  If I am not mistaken, the fabulous Elwin Guild
>> uses one ring of his bells after the very last comment / all is over at the
>> end of the event.  Elwin, would you like to share how you use your bells?
>>
>> 2) I 'ding' the bells about 4 to 6 times, letting the full sound of each
>> ding run out, before I start the next ding. I breathe. And I find the dings
>> are much like a graceful breathing.
>>
>> 3) If it is a very large venue I hold them up to a microphone.
>>
>> 4) Some people hold them like cymbals (the 'faces' on vertical planes
>> opposite each other); some people hold them both facing down, next to each
>> other (lightly holding the straps so as to not affect the sound), and touch
>> them to each other. This last method is my method.
>>
>> 5) When buying them - ideal is to go to an actual store (a Tibetan store
>> for example) to listen to the music and tone of each set of bells, to feel
>> which is the one set that speaks to you.
>>
>> 6) I went to great lengths to make a connecting piece that was not the
>> original leather - so that I could put things on it that meant something to
>> me. It turns out that it can affect the sound and can stretch and I am
>> wondering if perhaps keeping the original simple leather piece might be
>> best. Although mine is still the way I created it and I enjoy how it looks.
>>
>> What do others do and know about their bells and their use of them?
>>
>> Cheers from a gray California morning,
>> Lisa
>>
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>>  On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Karolina Iwa wrote:
>>
>> from facilitating wikisym2010 in gdansk, poland,
>> i am writing with a question:
>>
>> many of us - including me - use temple bells during os events to attract
>> participants attention.
>> anybody knows the full code of respectful use of the bells?
>>
>> i would appreciate your contributions to decreasing my ignorance.
>> thank you in advance for sharing.
>>
>> karolina.
>>
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