What is chanting?
Chanting meditation means keeping a not moving mind, and perceiving the sound of your own voice. Perceiving your voice means perceiving your true self or true nature. Then you and the sound are never separate, which means that you and the whole universe are never separate. Thus, to perceive your true nature is to perceive universal substance. With regular chanting, your center gets stronger and stronger. When your center is stronger, you can control your feeling, condition and situation.
In our Zen Centers, people practice together.