Dhamma related Music

[pererin]

An Ubhal as Airde

Comhla rium
A tha thu an drasd
Mo shuilean duinte,
mo chuimhne dan
Nam sheasamh a' coimhead
Gach cnoc is gach traigh
Is an siol a dh'fhag thu ann a 'fas

Tha an garradh lan
Le craobhan treun
Le meas a' fas dhuinn ann ri bhuain
Ubhlan abaich
Milis geur
Ach tha aon ubhal
nach ruig sinn idir air

Seididh gaoth is dearrsaidh grian
Tro mheas nan craobhan lin gu lin
Ach thig an la is thig an t-am
Airson an ubhal as airde
Air a' chraobh a bhuain

Is co 'nar measg
A mhaireas la
Seachad air am is air oidhche fhein
A liuthad uair
A shreap mi suas
Airson an ubhal as airde
chur gu beul

Seididh gaoth is dearrsaidh grian
Tro mheas nan craobhan lin gu lin
Ach thig an la is thig an t-am
Airson an ubhal as airde
Air a' chraobh a bhuain

--oOo--

The Highest Apple

At present
All you were is with me
My eyes closed, my memory confident
Standing here watching
Each hill and shoreline
With the seed you left
Still growing

The garden is well stocked
With mighty trees
With fruit growing for the whole world
Ripe, sweet
And bitter apples
And the one apple
That is beyond reach

The winds will blow
And the sun will shine
From generation to generation
Through the trees of the garden
But the day and the hour
Will surely come
To take the highest apple
From the knowledge tree

Who amongst us
Can exist a single day
Beyond our own time and our own limits
Countless and futile
Are times I've climbed
To reach and taste
The highest apple

The winds will blow
And the sun will shine
From generation to generation
Through the trees of the garden
But the day and the hour
Will surely come
To take the highest apple
From the knowledge tree

--oOo—


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts0UipGU034" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Ben]

When the deal goes down

Bob Dylan

In the still of the night, in the world's ancient light
Where wisdom grows up in strife
My bewildering brain, toils in vain
Through the darkness on the pathways of life
Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air
Tomorrow keeps turning around
We live and we die, we know not why
But I'll be with you when the deal goes down

We eat and we drink, we feel and we think
Far down the street we stray
I laugh and I cry and I'm haunted by
Things I never meant nor wished to say
The midnight rain follows the train
We all wear the same thorny crown
Soul to soul, our shadows roll
And I'll be with you when the deal goes down

Well, the moon gives light and it shines by night
When I scarcely feel the glow
We learn to live and then we forgive
Over the road we're bound to go
More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours
That keep us so tightly bound
You come to my eyes like a vision from the skies
And I'll be with you when the deal goes down

Well, I picked up a rose and it poked through my clothes
I followed the winding stream
I heard the deafening noise, I felt transient joys
I know they're not what they seem
In this earthly domain, full of disappointment and pain
You'll never see me frown
I owe my heart to you, and that's saying it's true
And I'll be with you when the deal goes down

[puthujjana]

I've just stumbled over this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev7Yz5Pm ... annel_page" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's awesome: a crocodile dressed like a cowboy sings meditation instructions...

[pink_trike]

This performance by Keith Jarrett:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqK1JJOFxw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...which I see as an exercise in self-less concentration.

...and his Koln concert (if you ever get a chance, listen to the entire concert) with it's cyclical overlapping rhythms that repetitively rise and fall away, and that layer/ alternate chaos and exquisitely beautiful balance - as if mirroring the tendency of moment in the mind. Uncertain, at times uncomfortable, and beautiful. One man, one piano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzqMJWlKMsY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;