#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  When you recite a mantra or recite Guan Yin's name... you recite the Buddha's name... and what you need to do—you simply focus on listening to your own sound. This is very important because what happened to us is that your hearing has a tendency to go outside and look for sounds. So whatever sound we hear is from the outside. The practice for you, starting out, is... you do your own... you create your own sound; you recite something—let's say the Buddha's name or Guan Yin Bodhisattva's name—even a mantra—anything. In this particular Dharma Door, when you recite, you only focus on the sound of your own sound. Whatever sounds around you that you... that your ear organ registers—you ignore them; you don't pay attention. That's the fundamentals of the process. You do that—wonderful things happen.