Mixed for kanitnon

music by
Marco Lucchi : piano and electronics

with contributions from 
Henrik Meierkord : cello and fx

voices by Francesca Tuscano, Giovanni Fontana and Mauro Carrera

maggio 2021

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Levando il guardo infin al ciel dal suolo
il volto volto in tenero sorriso
parlò al Padre come un buon figliuolo

E come quei che il sole guarda fiso
sanza temenza di perder la vista
così volse al Fattor diretto il viso

Mauro Carrera

Bandcamp

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Dante

001 มหาสติปัฏฐานสูตร พระมหาไพโรจน์ ญาณกุสโล(นิรัญรักษ์) บรรยายที่ ชุมนุนพุทธธรรมศิริราช

Rest your head upon my shoulder now
There's nothing more to say
The rains will fall and the winds will blow
Until the mountains wear away
And we are here amongst it all
Like natures orphan seeds
Growing under the sun
Adrift among the weeds

for we all have done our best
or at least we tried to do it
Truth is we didn't have a clue
and we just muddled through it

Where are all the angry truths
We felt so long and held so strong
The hard words and the kind words
Made no difference all along
Have I been whistling in the wind
Better blow that trumpet louder
Turns out your will was made of
Talcum not gunpowder

Nothing More

Saudade

SAUDADE

Three Jewels & A Lotus

01  พุทธคุณ  (Ajahn Achalo)-  Chanting Collection  no. 05

เตมิยชาดก (2) : ทศชาติชาดก | 10 ส.ค. 65 (ค่ำ)

A five-day programme of prayer to lead you a little deeper into Ignatian spirituality.

St Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1540, with nine companions, was also the founder of a tradition (or 'school', or approach to prayer) now known as Ignatian spirituality.

Four years ago, running up to the Feast of St Ignatius (31 July), Pray-as-you-go took the form of a five-day "novena" (using the term a little loosely - a novena should be nine days!)  This was a programme of meditations in the Ignatian tradition, with each day building on the previous one, giving the user the opportunity to go a little deeper than is usually possible with the short, daily prayer sessions. 

Way of Ignatius - Part V

Aleksander Hemon’s new novel, The World and All That it Holds starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, and then takes us from Bosnia, to Uzbekistan, to China and elsewhere, covering a convulsive period of history in which the technological advances, the political turbulence, and the displacement of people bear striking similarities to those of our own time.

On Sarajevo, Multiple Worlds and History at the Fringes, with Aleksander Hemon

In How Westminster Works and Why it Doesn’t Ian Dunt blows the cobwebs out of the arcane nooks and crannies of the British political system, demystifying it with his clear, compelling, and entertaining prose. He also shines a light upon how the system as it stands does not, in fact, work and, indeed, is often designed not to work.  How Westminster Works and Why it Doesn’t leaves the reader feeling more knowledgable—as you would hope—but also angrier and more energised, more equipped to engage, to argue and perhaps even to change things for the better.

Buy How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7436384/dunt-ian-how-westminster-works-and-why-it-doesn-t

How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t, with Ian Dunt

This is a loose salute to Stephen Bruton's Treasured Wounds.

Vocals, keyboards, Mix and production: conover
Acoustic Guitar and arrangement: Alexis Roche https://soundcloud.com/alexis-roche-2 
Drum Track edits: Katze Bach

Treasured Wounds
There's a neon sign blinkin
On the wrong side a town
It's an old lighthouse beacon
For lost soul's run aground
And they look at their live's
Like a vein that's been opened
And ya can't tell for sure
If their laughing or choakin

Some sit in silence
and stare off in space
And some holdin court
Tend to get in your face
But they all see themselves
Like a coin that's been tossed
And hope that their worth what they've lost

So turn back the clock
To back when it stopped
And we'll sing all our old favorite tunes
And resurrect kneel bow and gene-flecked
Before our most treasured of wounds

Now memories and shadows
grow long with the day
and come back to life
when night has it's way
And we're all old soldier's
we won the war
only to fall on our swords

Before our most treasured wounds
Before our most treasured wounds
And it takes one to know one down here

Stephen Bruton

Treasured Wounds)  Conover/Roche

Paul Gilbert
Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy

Paul Gilbert is a pioneer of compassion-focused therapy. He’s a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Derby. In his work, he has drawn on insights from Buddhist tradition as well as evolutionary psychology. His compassion training teaches people to quieten critical or hostile inner voices in order to treat themselves more kindly. That can mean working on breath, posture and tone of voice. Learning to feel compassion towards ourselves is a skill that can be taught.

Cultivating the Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert

In this series of eight talks, historian Douglas Martin discusses the evolution of religion in the context of our capacity to respond to the requirements of the Divine Plan. 

Douglas Martin was born in 1927 in Ontario, Canada. He held a Bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Western Ontario and a Master's degree in history from the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

He was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada from 1960-85, serving as its general secretary from 1965-85. From 1985-93 he was director-general of the Baha'i International Community's Office of Public Information at the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa.

Mr. Douglas Martin was also a former member of the Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Baha'i International Community (for more information, please visit: https://universalhouseofjustice.bahai.org/).

Mr. Martin passed away on 28 September 2020 in Toronto, Canada. You can read a tribute to him by the Universal House of Justice on the Baha'i World News Service: https://news.bahai.org/story/1455/

You can watch the whole series of talks here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8392079924F5E850

Or listen to the audio versions of these eight talks here on Baha'i Blog's Soundcloud page:

Talk 1- Introduction: http://bit.ly/2HprBEO
Talk 2 - The Challenge of Islam: http://bit.ly/2HlLb4M
Talk 3 - The Bab: http://bit.ly/2FL8hom
Talk 4 - Spiritual Evolution: http://bit.ly/2FtrWdn
Talk 5 - The Advent of Divine Justice: http://bit.ly/2GhteW1
Talk 6 - Abdu'l-Baha: http://bit.ly/2p7IjRD
Talk 7 - The Guardian: http://bit.ly/2Il1qjW
Talk 8 - Where Are We Now?: http://bit.ly/2HmenJ9

Special thanks to Mr. Douglas Martin and the organizers of this talk for granting us permission to share it. 

Discover more Baha'i-inspired content on BAHAIBLOG.NET

"Talk 1 - Introduction" A Talk by Mr. Douglas Martin

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หลวงปู่ชา สุภทฺโท ขณะมีชีวิตอยู่ท่านได้อุทิศชีวิตเพื่อการปฏิบัติธรรมและเผยแผ่พุทธศาสนา ทั้งแก่ชาวไทยและชาวต่างประเทศ ซึ่งบังเกิดผลทำให้ผลงานที่เป็นประโยชน์อเนกอนันต์แก่พระศาสนา ทั้งที่เป็นพระธรรมเทศนา และสำนักปฏิบัติธรรมในนามวัดสาขาวัดหนองป่าพงมากมาย ซึ่งแม้ท่านจะมรณภาพไปนานแล้ว แต่ศิษยานุศิษย์ของท่านก็ยังคงรักษาแนวทางปฏิบัติธรรมที่ท่านได้สั่งสอนไว้จนถึงปัจจุบัน