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"Silver John" is the first proper single from This Is The Kit's new album BASHED OUT--produced by The National's Aaron Dessner and released in April 2015. The band are already omnipresent on the BBC 6 airwaves and on August 6th were featured on the debut season of the BBC iPlayer documentary series Guy Garvey's Music Box. They being hotly tipped as a possible Mercury Prize nominees for Bashed Out. 

Directed by This Is The Kit
Filmed & edited by Jesse D. Vernon

Kate says of the track: “’Silver John’ talks about how we see things. The end of the work that we’re bringing about ourselves. Putting the blame on other forces. Being let down by people. The things we grab at in times of panic. It’s just mulling over the way of the human.” 

On Bashed Out, the band continue their musical evolution into a synesthetic, shape-shifting entity—rooted in folk but encompassing elements of psychedelia, alternative rock, and electronic textures and sensibilities. The Line of Best Fit has called Kate's and TITK and "essential fixture of British folk music for the past 10 years…one of a handful of truly innovate songwriters working with the British folk template today."

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This Is The Kit: "Silver John"

Mantra del Buda de la Sabiduria, Manjushri, cantado por Thubten Wangchen

The Buddha of wisdom, Manjushri Mantra chanted by Thubten Wangchen.

OM AH RA BA TSA NA DHI

Mantra para purficar la ignorancia (mente retardada), baja mentalidad, inconsciencia y para actualizar las siete sabidurias.
DHI.........en una sola respiración.
DHI es para actualizar las siete sabidurias.

Mantra to purify ignorance (retarded mind) low mentality, oblivion and to actualize the seven wisdoms.
DHI..........in one breathe.
DHI is to actualize the seven wisdoms.

The Buddha of wisdom, Manjushri wields the sword of wisdom that cuts through the ignorance that keeps us bound to our conditioned existence and holds a copy of the Perfection of Wisdom sutra text.

Mantra del Buda de la Sabiduria, Manjushri (wisdom Buddha s Mantra)

a ritual of elemental purification... the Cosmic Buddha Vairocana burning up the bardo, releasing sentient beings into emptiness.

tibetan bowls and bells by Karma Moffett, Om chant recording by djgriffin, and guitar feedback from thatjeffcarter, heart sutra mantra recording by falsalama

Vairocana's Bar(-do)beque

Dharma Nada (2/2)

Homage To Twenty One Taras/Sanscrit

Vocals - Ms. Namrata Mahabal, Backing Vocals & Arrangements - Mr. Jaydeep Vaidya. Lyrics - Shantidev's Bodhicharyavatara. 

Description: These are Sanskrit verses from Shantidev's Bodhicharyavatara, a seminal 7th Century text from Nalanda University. The verses describe taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma & Sangha, taking a vow to achieve enlightenment not merely for oneself, but for the sake of liberating all sentient beings. Singing this daily is a good way to remind ourselves of the noble intent.  

English Transliteration: 
Buddhaṃ gacchāmi śaraṇaṃ yāvadā bodhimaṇḍataḥ
Dharmaṃ gacchāmi śaraṇaṃ bodhisattvagaṇaṃ tathā॥२६॥

Yathā gṛhītaṃ sugatairbodhicittaṃ purātanaiḥ।
Te bodhisattva-śikṣāyāmānupūrvyā yathā sthitāḥ॥२२

Tadvadutpādayāmyeṣa bodhicittaṃ jagaddhite। 
Tadvadeva ca tāḥ śikṣāḥ śikṣiṣyāmi yathākramam॥२३॥

Adya me saphalaṃ janma sulabdho mānuṣo bhavaḥ। 
Adya buddhakule jāto buddhaputro.asmi sāṃpratam॥२५॥

Jagadadya nimantritaṃ mayā sugatatvena sukhena cāntarā। 
Purataḥ khalu sarvatāyināmabhinandantu surāsurādayaḥ॥३३॥

English translation: 
Until the essence of enlightenment is reached, I go for refuge to the Buddhas.
Also, I take refuge in the Dharma, And in all the host of Bodhisattvas. [26]

Just as all the Buddhas of the past, have brought forth the awakened mind,
And in the precepts of the Bodhisattvas, Step-by-step abode and trained,
Likewise, for the benefit of beings, I will bring to birth the awakened mind,
And in those precepts, step-by-step, I will abide and train myself.

“Today my life has given fruit. This human state has now been well assumed.
Today I take my birth in Buddha’s line, And have become the Buddha’s child and heir.

“And so, today, within the sight of all protectors,
I summon beings, calling them to Buddhahood.
And, till that state is reached, to every earthly joy!
May gods and demigods and all the rest rejoice!”

Refuge & Bodhisattva Vows (बुद्धम गच्चामि शरणाम......)

Vocals - Ms. Namrata Mahabal, Traditional Arrangement, Lyrics: Shantidev (Chapter 10 of Bodhicharyavatara). 
Description - Whatever merit is accrued from any positive deeds done, are also dedicated towards the liberation of all sentient beings. Helping to cultivate an attitude of selflessness. 


ENGLISH TRANSLITERATION:

Punya paaya hain jo maine,
Bodhisattva-raah lekhan se

Khule dvaar is raaha ka, 
Chale sab Buddha-rah pe

Yah prarthna hain meri, 
Bheet ho jaaye nir-bheet
Sarva Quaydee ab ho aazaad, 
Nirbal janata ho balvaan
Kare seva ek duje ki, 
har avsar man mein ho pyar,
Kshan mein mukt ho rog se sabhi, 
Vyaadhiyon se mukt sansaar.

Raahi paaye khushiyaan, Jaayein woh, jo bhi disha
Sahaj mile unhe saari manzilein, 
sahaj mile unhe woh manzil.

Kare Shantidev yeh prarthna ki -

punya-aatmaaon ki krupa se, barse saavan samay anusaar
Jisse phasal ho sampan, aur anna ho apaar

raajya-shaasan ho dharm-anusaar,
Sukhi samruddh ho sansaar
Dava ho shaktishaali
mantra ho prabhaavshali

Sarva daakini Rakshas aadi, jo sukh-shaanti nasht karein
Unke man mein sab ke prati karuna aur daya jaagein.

mere punya ka laabh ho, har jeev-jan ko, anginat hain sankhya jinki, apaar aakaash samaan. 
har ek jan tyaage, vinaashak karma sadaa
sarva chalein bodhicharya path par, na ho kabhi path se juda.

Buddha-saare sarva jan ko shishya roop sveekar karein
sarva jan ki sadhana, vighno se mukt rahein

Shantidev kahe -

mein jab bhi chahoon dekhna unhe, prashna chhota ho ya gehra, pratyaksh mein dekhoon unhe, mere rakshak, manjughosh manjushree, manjunath, manjughosh.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

By all the virtue I have now amassed
By composition of this book, which speaks
Of entry to the Bodhisattva way,
May every being tread the path to Buddhahood. [1]

May those who go in dread have no more fear.
May captives be unchained and now set free.
And may the weak receive their strength. May living beings help each other in kindness. May every being ailing with disease Be freed at once from every malady.
May every sickness that afflicts the living Be wholly and forever absent from the world. [22]

May travelers upon the road
Find happiness no matter where they go,
And may they gain, without the need of toil,
The goals on which they set their hearts. [23]

Shantidev prays that -

May kindly spirits bring the rains on time,
For harvests to be rich and plentiful.

May princes rule according to the Dharma;
May the world be blessed with all prosperity. [39]
May medicines be full of strength;
May secret words of power be chanted with success.

May spirits of the air that feed on flesh
Be kind, their minds imbued with pity. [40]

And thus by all the merit I have gained,
May every being, leaving none aside,
Abandon all their evil ways
Embracing goodness now and ever more.
From bodhichitta may they never separate,
And constantly engage in Bodhisattva actions.

May they be accepted as disciples by the Buddhas,
Drawing back from what is demons’ work. [32]

Says Shantidev -

Whenever I desire to gaze on him Or put to him the slightest question,
May I behold with unobstructed sight
My own protector Mañjughoṣha. [53]

Dedication of Merit - Hindi Bhajan (पुण्य पाया)

Vocals: Ms. Namrata Mahabal, Djembe & Backing Vocals: Jaydeep Vaidya, Keyboard: Devendra Bhome, Violin: Anup Kulthe, Tabla: Ketan Pawar. Lyrics: traditional. 

This was recorded live, under the Bodhi Tree in Mahabodhi Temple Complex, Bodhgaya. 

In a previous life, when Buddha Shakyamuni was a Bodhisattva, He met Buddha Dipamkara. At that moment, Bodhisattva Shakyamuni made the following aspiration in the presence of Buddha Dipamkara.....

O Buddha, O Tathagata, O Mahamuni

just as how you care, and
how many you inspire

How infinite you live
how many directions you influence

How glorious and beautiful you are!
May we also emulate and
May we too actualise that. 

ENGLISH TRANSLITERATION OF HINDI:

Hé Buddha, Hé Tathāgata, Hé Mahāmuni.

Jaise, Aap ki karuna sab par
Prerak anginat sankhya ke

Anant apaar aapka jeevan 
kitni dishaaye prabhavit kare !

Hé Divya manjul Svarupi Buddha !
Hum bhi aapka anusaran karen,

hum mein bhi ye saare gun jaage 
Hé Buddha, Hé Tathāgata, Hé Mahāmuni.

Buddha's Aspiration (हे बुद्ध, हे तथागत)

Modern renditions, in appropriate pitch & temperament, of classics by Erik Satie, G.I. Gurdjieff & Thomas de Hartmann, and The Comte St Germain. http://salondelarosecroix.wixsite.com/2017

Salon de la Rose + Croix 2018

11 - Erik Satie - Gymnopedie 3

Memoáry Egona Bondyho
Text knihy vznikl v 80. letech minulého století a původně byl určený jen pro pár nejbližších přátel. Bondy dokonce chtěl, aby byl zveřejněn až 50 let po jeho smrti.V knize se zaměřuje na popis svého divokého života a atmosféry období po Vítězném únoru, především v 50. letech minulého století.
Mimo jiné se věnuje i vášnivému vztahu s Honzou Krejcarovou, dcerou Mileny Jesenské, nebo tomu, jak se rozhodl přes hranice do Rakouska pašovat sklo a do Československa naopak vozit dámské nylonky.Přiznává i to, že byl párkrát v blázinci a pro pivo byl schopný všeho.

Èást 5.

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