was just listening to this... its magic
What music are you listening to right now?
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Higher than lordship over all earth,
Higher than sojourning in heavens supreme,
Higher than empire over all the worlds,
Is Fruit of Entrance to the Dhamma Stream. —Dhammapada
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“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: What music are you listening to right now?
a very Dhammic song...
And if you are in the mood for a love song from beyond the grave:Will you loose the flowers
Hold on to the vase?
Will you wipe all those teardrops
Away from your face?
I can't help thinking
As I close the door,
I have done all of this
Many times before.
_/|\_
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Something very special in heavy music
“Life is swept along, short is the life span; no shelters exist for one who has reached old age. Seeing clearly this danger in death, a seeker of peace should drop the world’s bait.” SN 1.3
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The lyrics take on a new unintended meaning in the light of the ongoing ponderings here, but a hauntingly beautiful song regardless.
_/|\_
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Higher than lordship over all earth,
Higher than sojourning in heavens supreme,
Higher than empire over all the worlds,
Is Fruit of Entrance to the Dhamma Stream. —Dhammapada
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This is one I like.
Dipping a toe in or pulling myself from a swamp...yeah that covers it for now.
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Heart sutra in Sanskrit by Imee Ooi.
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I have been reading a talk by Ajahn Sumedho called “Religious Convention and Sila Practice”. He says:
Having now listened to several versions, my verdict is that the best of the lot is an unsentimental Scottish adaptation by Billy Connolly. In this version the tragic ballad’s outcome is reversed: instead of Tommy it’s Laura who ends up splattered.
- “One night, we were sitting in our forest monastery in Thailand meditating, when I heard an American pop song that I really hated when I was a layman. It was being blasted out by one of those medicine sellers who go to all the villages in big vans with loudspeakers that play this kind of music in order to attract the villagers to come and buy their quacky medicines. The wind was blowing in the right direction and the sound of ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’ seemed right here in the meditation hall itself. I hadn’t heard American pop music for so many years, so while this smarmy sentimental song was playing I was actually beginning to cry! And I began to recognise the tremendous emotional pull of that kind of music. If you don’t really understand it, it grabs your heart and you get caught up in the excitement and emotion of it. This is the effect of music when you’re not mindful.”
http://www.amaravati.org/documents/citt ... 3reli.html
Having now listened to several versions, my verdict is that the best of the lot is an unsentimental Scottish adaptation by Billy Connolly. In this version the tragic ballad’s outcome is reversed: instead of Tommy it’s Laura who ends up splattered.
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"An inward-staying
unentangled knowing,
All outward-going knowing
cast aside."
--Upasika Kee Nanayon
unentangled knowing,
All outward-going knowing
cast aside."
--Upasika Kee Nanayon
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I find this song very inspiring. It addresses such an important issue directly, but with compassion. I find the video, music and words very powerful. I pray it ends the suffering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjD7OpX6EOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjD7OpX6EOc
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Damn well love this song.
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We Are The Ovaltineys by The Ovaltineys (ca 1935)
Charming, isn’t it? It’s the sort of song one could happily listen to all day and night.
In fact I’ve recently started using the Ovaltineys’ song as background to my daily boxing and aerobic workout. Like many an amateur pugilist I had previously been working out to the tune of Soomaaliyeey toosoo (“Wake Up, Somalia!”), which is the old national anthem of Somalia. Unfortunately the Somalian government abolished the old anthem, replacing it with an astonishingly boring new one called Qolobaa Calankeed (“Our Nation’s Flag”). There’s no way in the world that I’m going to box and pump to a dull-as-ditchwater dirge like that! The new anthem’s sole merit, as far as I can see, is that it’s insipid enough not to arouse the wrath of the more volatile strains of Mussulmen that infest that poor country.
So, it’s farewell to the musical compositions of Mogadishu as far as this lady is concerned: from now on I’ll be working out to the Ovaltineys.
Edith Clampton (Mrs)
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Melodic Psytrance
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa