什么是铜锣祈典(Gong Puja)？
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Gong Puja 是一种虔诚的仪式，它尊重并为参与者提供空间来治愈思想、身体和精神。铜锣是促进自我修复的物体和工具。
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.
铜锣祈典通常持续约7.5小时（或十次 45 分钟的铜锣浴）。
A Gong Puja typically lasts about 7 1⁄2 hours (or ten 45-minute Gong Sound Baths).
Don 总是鼓励铜锣师创造性地思考。 Puja可以是彻夜铜锣祈典，也可以是24小时的铜锣祈典，以疗愈地球。
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 讲述的故事是基于他与 Yogi Bajan 的个人经历。在看到 Yogi Bajan 为他的儿子做了一次 45 分钟的铜锣浴的效果后，Yogi Bajan 宣布，每天连续 10 天 45 分钟的疗愈“几乎可以疗愈任何东西”。因为现实情况是，一个人不一定能够在 10 天内，每天做一次 45 分钟。将它们放入 450 分钟的想法创造了实现自我修复结果的可能性，减轻身体的痛苦，打开心扉，回到自然平衡的快乐状态。
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.
这个特殊的仪式，即 450 分钟的彻夜铜锣祈典，其神秘力量在于，通过创造这样一个自我疗愈的机会氛围，我们可以将自我疗愈的振动带到世界上，以激励其他人也这样做。 “这些真正的意识转变不仅是可能的，而且它们发生在离你最近的铜锣上。”
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，铜锣大师 Don Conreaux 开发并举办了他的第一次官方彻夜铜锣祈典，在一个盛大的疗愈之夜提供这 10 次连续的铜锣浴，参与者睡觉*，“让心灵漂浮在铜锣意识状态中，而身体则以最佳疗愈状态在这个平面上休息： 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.”
*并非所有参与者都在彻夜铜锣祈典期间睡觉。参与者分为两类 – 铜锣演奏者和前来接收的民众。有睡觉的参与者和在称为纯粹意识(Turiya)的中立状态中保持清醒的参与者。注：Turiya 在中文中通常被翻译为「第四层意识」或「纯粹意识」。它是一个来自梵文的词汇，在印度哲学和瑜伽中，描述了一种超越三种常见意识状态（清醒、梦境、深度睡眠）的状态。这种状态被认为是一种超然的存在，是纯净而永恒的意识，无形且超越个体经验。 )
*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.
