Today's teacher is Tom. He has a different teaching approach. We enjoyed his teaching very much. He aided us in understanding the alignment of the posture.
When he asked us to chant Om 3 times, he wanted us to say it in harmony with the whole class.
In India, I was taught to chant Om as long as possible in one breathe in order to extend our breath. Tom said not chanting in harmony was egoistic. But chanting in harmony with others can promote mediocrity. May be that's why in our Tibetan chanting practice, we chant slowly in harmony together, progressively we chant faster at each own pace, then gradually we chant quieter until we are chanting silently into meditative state...
Ommmmm.....
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