什麼是銅鑼祈典(Gong Puja)？
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Gong Puja 是一種虔誠的儀式，它尊重並為參與者提供空間來治癒思想、身體和精神。銅鑼是促進自我修復的物體和工具。
A Gong Puja is a devotional ritual which honors and allows space for participants to heal in mind, body and spirit. The Gong is the object and instrument which facilitates self healing.
銅鑼祈典通常持續約7.5小時（或十次 45 分鐘的銅鑼浴）。
A Gong Puja typically lasts about 7 1⁄2 hours (or ten 45-minute Gong Sound Baths).
Don 總是鼓勵銅鑼師創造性地思考。Puja可以是徹夜銅鑼祈典，也可以是24小時的銅鑼祈典，以療癒地球。
Don always encourages the Gong Player to think creatively. A Puja can be an overnight puja (a Puja-ma Party), or a 24 hour Gong Puja to heal the planet.
Don 講述的故事是基於他與 Yogi Bajan 的個人經歷。在看到 Yogi Bajan 為他的兒子做了一次 45 分鐘的銅鑼浴的效果後，Yogi Bajan 宣佈，每天連續 10 天 45 分鐘的療癒“幾乎可以療癒任何東西”。因為現實情況是，一個人不一定能夠在 10 天內，每天做一次 45 分鐘。將它們放入 450 分鐘的想法創造了實現自我修復結果的可能性，減輕身體的痛苦，打開心扉，回到自然平衡的快樂狀態。
The story Don tells is based on his personal experience with Yogi Bajan. After seeing the effects of one 45 minute Gong Bath that Yogi Bajan gave to his son, who was verbally delayed, Yogi Bajan declared that with 10 consecutive 45 minute daily sessions "one could cure almost anything." Because the reality is that a person wouldn't necessarily be able to do one 45 minute a day for 10 days. The idea of putting them into a 450 minute creates the possibility to achieve the result of self-healing, relieving the body of suffering, opening the heart to return to a natural balanced state of joy.
這個特殊的儀式，即 450 分鐘的徹夜銅鑼祈典，其神秘力量在於，通過創造這樣一個自我療癒的機會氛圍，我們可以將自我療癒的振動帶到世界上，以激勵其他人也這樣做。“這些真正的意識轉變不僅是可能的，而且它們發生在離你最近的銅鑼上。”
The magic and power of this particular ritual, the 450 minute All-Night Gong Puja, is that by creating a such a climate of opportunity for self healing, we can then carry that vibration of self-healing out into the world to inspire others to do the same. "These true shifts in consciousness are not only possible, they are happening at a Gong-In nearest you."
2000年，銅鑼大師 Don Conreaux 開發並舉辦了他的第一次官方徹夜銅鑼祈典，在一個盛大的療癒之夜提供這 10 次連續的銅鑼浴，參與者睡覺*，“讓心靈漂浮在銅鑼意識狀態中，而身體則以最佳療癒狀態在這個平面上休息： 沉睡。
In the year 2000, Grand Gong Master Don Conreaux developed and held his first official Overnight Gong Puja to deliver these 10 consecutive gong baths in one grand night of healing as participants slept*, “allowing the mind to float in a state of gong consciousness while the body rested on this plane in the most optimum state for healing: Deep sleep.”
*並非所有參與者都在徹夜銅鑼祈典期間睡覺。參與者分為兩類 – 銅鑼演奏者和前來接收的民眾。有睡覺的參與者和在稱為純粹意識(Turiya)的中立狀態中保持清醒的參與者。註：Turiya 在中文中通常被翻譯為「第四層意識」或「純粹意識」。它是一個來自梵文的詞彙，在印度哲學和瑜伽中，描述了一種超越三種常見意識狀態（清醒、夢境、深度睡眠）的狀態。這種狀態被認為是一種超然的存在，是純淨而永恆的意識，無形且超越個體經驗。)
*not all participants sleep during the all-night gong puja. There are two types of participants - the Gong master players playing the gongs and the ones who come to receive. There are the participants who sleep and the ones who stay awake in a state of neutrality which is called Turiya.
