" Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth
Shakes like a thing unfirm? " -Julius Caesar Act I, Scene iii

The Rived And Knotty Oak

Christmas Medley composed and recorded in Wisconsin. Christmas bustle all-included!

Christmas Medley Pt. 1&2

Dedicated to Dr. Paul Mariskanish-
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Part I
Heavy locks of tinsel dress the tree top
Lovingly in lavishness
It'll change a little light in your heart now

Love is the season
How bright ends each year

My ol' love is near
My ol' love is near to me
When the wind blows snowflakes onto her head
And your laughing cause ya don't know what she just said!

It'll change a little light in your heart now

Love is the season
How fine life is here

The city swell and sharing
The cities swell in sharing
When cinnamon wafts thick the early morn,
Let's all feed the poor
And save the world

धर्मेभ्यः (Trans. For the purpose of Dharma)

Dse wa yö
Tang Tang
Dse wa yö
Tsang

Dse wa yö
Sang Gye Bül

Di sem chen gi tön du re'

(Poet translation)
Love Exists
And on and on and
Love Exists
and on because the
Buddha gives
To all who is.
Buddha gives.
For all who is
Is Buddha.*

Bundled in warmth
Our cozy houses filled with love
Bundles of Joy
We walk steadily through the snow drifts
into our homes, out from the void.

After all snowman,
Dressed in civil-ry i
In the frigid air,
They will tell everyone,
"Christmas is here!"

Part II
Dear Santa,
Won't you lend me your ear?
I've been real good this year.
I wish for just one thing you see
Underneath that Christmas Tree.

It fills the air with scents of something sweet
Joyous smiles on all that you meet
Good friends, old friends, and family too
Gather around, sing this Christmas tune:
"Christmas, Christmas, time is here
Time for joy and time for cheer
Don't be shy, just sing aloud
Bring that Christmas spirit out!"

Part III
(Christmas skit)

I'll be in my bedroom
It'd be Christmas morning
But the sky is pitch black
And laying here is boring.

Hmmm..

Maybe I'll just get up
To Fetch a glass of water
Nobody will hear me
I'll be very cautious.

Shhh..!

Squeeze between the doorway
Sneaking down the hall
Squeaky rotten staircase
They won't hear me at all.

Tip-toe in the kitchen
Everything is quiet 
You could hear a pin drop
Wait - Is that Santa right there in
My house, Santa is right here in my house!

Quick go into hiding!
(I hope he didn't see me)
I can't make a noise now..
Else he will be leaving!

Performed in the Christmas season of 2015 by
Tristan Hirsch, Cassidy Roth, and Justin Phillips

Music and lyrics by Justin Phillips






Christmas Medley 2015

These songs were written for Christine Mariskanish. They were recorded in one sitting, while thinking about her.

Um, We Compost

Truly Innocent ? : You Carry Song (Come Then, Sing)

The Tier Of Wellness : Geese And Seeds

The Perfect Pair : Undeniable Sons

Sister Need

Rub : Fleet//Flit : Dough, My Dear

Continuing: A Constant Sea : Sensibility

A Constant Stumbling : Igloo Sauna

Geese & Seeds (Non - GMO)

The Trumpet of the Sky is good little song for kids to learn about life and how it is put together for everyone!

Trumpet Of The Sky

Dedicated to the most Venerable Chögyam Trungpa

The Great Eastern Sun

This song is presented in 3 parts to model after the Eastern order of lü, nyen, and lha. Otherwise known as Earth-Man-Sky or Low-Middle-High or really anything else that exists in the phenomenal universe.

The Natural Hierarchy

Dedicated to The Venerable Chögyam Trungpa. Open the Doors to Liberation!

The Cooler Parts

May The Gods Be VICTORIOUS

Maha, Hina, or even Vajra - all just in one real vehicle, the vehicle of mind. 
Across the water - through Samsara's vast sea - I send myself today.

The First of the Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas:
(My own translation)
Here at the time the hard-to-find boat of leisure is obtained
In order to release ourself and others from the ocean of Samsara
To be without distraction day-and-night
Listening, contemplating, and meditating is the Bodhisattva’s practice

One Vehicle

Homage to all Buddhas of the past, present, and future

The Vidyadhara's First Western School

And thus have I been told: a child born
Was by a star then signified and shown:
What high within the sky was to be known
As know the sheep their shepherd by his horn

Is that this child born
Of flesh and bones
Will grow into the Lord of lords

And thus have I been told: a child born
Did come from of this world unsoiled
As from the mud the lotus comes uncoiled

Tells that this child born
Of flesh and bones
Will turn- into the Host of Hosts

And thus have I been told: a child born
Has saved mankind from birth-eld-ill-death mode
By signaling in word the mystery code
Has truth and light through murky darkness torn

Shows that this child born
Of flesh and bones
Did open up salvation's door

Everything Light

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