The Bell

Someone imaged the soul as having a bell.  I like that.  In the Buddhist tradition which Westerners borrowed or appropriated for meditation, they use a gong or a bowl.  The gong or bowl plays one long note, rather than a tune as do some church bells.  A tune might make you think about, well, the tune.  The gong or bowl is to simply call you to attention, rather than to thinking.  So it is one long note.  Now this note strikes the bell of your soul, to play that same one note.  Do you respond instantly?  Maybe.  What gets in the way of attention, is all the clutter of thoughts and feelings and anxieties, life's clutter.  So you may not respond to the gong or bowl at that moment.  The Power or Energy of the Universe, God for me, is that one note sound.  It plays each day.  If you don't respond right away, you might respond later to the one note that came earlier in the day.  So not to worry.  If you don't respond so well early, you may do better later in the day.  Just know that someone is always paying attention to the bell of your soul, and watching over you.  The one note plays each day for you.