Ya Devi

Slow Emotional Piano Improvisation intuitively attuned to a live audience during a performance.

Serenade of Hope

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge. Here's the information about that:

"slightly faint
yet clear
the milky way"

Toshio Kiyosaki (1922-1999) was a Japanese haiku poet and scholar of Japanese literature. He published a biography of Kyoshi Takahama in 1966 and co-authored Kyoshi Monogatari, another study on the renowned haiku poet, in 1979.

The Milky Way (amanogawa, or "Heavenly River" in Japanese) is a kigo for Autumn, mainly because that's when the galaxy is most visible in Japan.

Haiku by Toshio Kiyosaki

Extract of picture by Yong Chuan Tan
 

Submission deadline: 20th August 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

faint (naviarhaiku606)

A fully guided vipassana body scan meditation, suitable for all ages and levels of experience.

Sit somewhere quiet, close your eyes and simply listen to the instructions as you are taken on a guided meditation of your inner world. 

A perfect way for beginners or people interested in meditation to learn mindfulness of the body and become aware of bodily sensations and their effect on our minds. 

Please feel free to download and stick on your phone, iPod or tablet and have this ancient resource at your finger tips.

With practice and dedication, meditation can act as a base for:

•	Desirable changes in sense of well-being
•	Improved interpersonal relationships
•	Improved concentration & awareness
•	Improved regulation of physical pain
•	Improved regulation of emotional pain
•	Reduction in blood pressure
•	Increased ability to manage stress, anxiety and depression
 •	Improved general health and attitude to life
•	Letting go of past concerns and actions
•	Reduced worry over future
•	Improved capacity to appreciate or enjoy life internally (away from external stimulus, alcohol, drugs, food, material goods)

For more info head to: 

https://www.facebook.com/Interconnect-Meditation-581588852007917/

Our first meditation group is going live on Thursday 12th May in Uffculme, Devon. Please check the Facebook event page for more details, all welcome!

https://www.facebook.com/events/265724340431472/

This mediation is dedicated to the people I have learnt from over the last 11 years: Gil Fronsdal, Malcolm Huxter, Ajahn Jutindharo, Bhante G,  Bhante Suvaco, Hermes Trismegistus, Neil Kramer, R.O. & Franz Bardon  

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!

Guided Vipassana Body Scan Meditation

Звезда́ — небесное тело, в котором идут, шли или будут идти термоядерные реакции. Но чаще всего звездой называют небесное тело, в котором идут в данный момент термоядерные реакции. Солнце — типичная звезда спектрального класса G. Звёзды представляют собой массивные светящиеся газовые (плазменные) шары. Образуются из газово-пылевой среды (главным образом из водорода и гелия) в результате гравитационного сжатия. Температура вещества в недрах звёзд измеряется миллионами кельвинов, а на их поверхности — тысячами кельвинов. Энергия подавляющего большинства звёзд выделяется в результате термоядерных реакций превращения водорода в гелий, происходящих при высоких температурах во внутренних областях. Звёзды часто называют главными телами Вселенной, поскольку в них заключена основная масса светящегося вещества в природе. Примечательно и то, что звёзды имеют отрицательную теплоёмкость

Ближайшей к Земле звездой (не считая Солнца) является Проксима Центавра. Она расположена в 4,2 св. лет от нашей Солнечной системы (4,2 св. лет = 39 Пм = 39 триллионов км = 3,9×1013 км). См. также список ближайших звёзд.

Невооружённым взглядом (при хорошей остроте зрения) на небе видно около 6000 звёзд, по 3000 в каждом полушарии. Все видимые с Земли звёзды (включая видимые в самые мощные телескопы) находятся в местной группе галактик.

Padmasana - A Distant Star

Sambanhd

Dhyan

Kal Akaal

REQUIEM by JOHN MURPHY

From the feature length documentary 'The Valley' by Dan Reed.

REQUIEM

PCA: Wealth Actualization Formula

Shreem Brzee X 1008 Music Chant

Heartbreak delivers us to the altar of self-love.

Artwork: Amaury Gutierrez via Unsplash

Mending the Heart | 7.11.20

Returning to my native village after many years’ absence: 
Ill, I put up at a country inn and listen to the rain. 
One robe, one bowl is all I have. 
I light incense and strain to sit in meditation; 
All night a steady drizzle outside the dark window --  
Inside, poignant memories of these long years of pilgrimage.
(Ryōkan, 18th century, translated by John Stevens) 


Flute: https://soundcloud.com/soulful-woods 
Piano: https://soundcloud.com/cis-minor 

This lovely music came to me more or less as a gift: some weeks back I recorded the piano (https://soundcloud.com/cis-minor/21st-century-monk-free). The incredible Soulful Woods felt inspired to create an enchanting flute expression - we already planned to do a collab for some longer time. 
From the first time I had heard his music I was intrigued by the sound, the authenticity and the depth of emotional expression in his flute play. His music is pure and thorough. Listening to his music is bringing peace and awareness to me, but still it breathes some sense of solitude and sorrow. Have a listen to this most beautiful and soulful music here: https://soundcloud.com/soulful-woods

A Monk Returns Home

Some people ask: can one make a living from music? Let me ask back: can one make a living without music?

A Monk Returns Home

cis minor