As the night went on he started dreaming and saw a spirit being descending from the heavens, carrying a bamboo stick with one hole on the upper end and 6 holes on the lower. Approaching the shepard, the being presented him with the hollow bamboo explaining to him how he should go about finding the heavenly tunes he had heard earlier by blowing his breath into the hole at the upper end of the hollow bamboo, and using his fingers to close or open the lower six holes for creating a variety of notes. He was told in the dream that the purer each note was that he played the more healing the effect of the tune would be on his body and spirit.

To this day, the shepard is revered in many different ways, and the sound of the hollow bamboo has continued to put a spell on meditators, lovers and dreamers. Sometimes, when the great masterplayers' tunes from the bamboo are in full alignment with the cosmic sounds, the player and the listener forget who they are and become one with their mutual source of being, the divine. When that happens, the goddesses and gods who have once brought that hollow bamboo to the shepard, are singing again, and the player, too, becomes a listener, conveying what is received from the beyond …