This track was somewhat of an accident, I was playing the keys and sorta got lost in the moment. Afterwards I remembered that Ableton has this feature where, even if you weren't recording, it will still capture your MIDI notes, so I recaptured my MIDI notes and turned them into this ambient piece.

Hopefully this audio finds you some grounding. Know that you are loved, and you are appreciated <3

Cover art is an edit of some photos I took up in Aspen.

It's Gonna Be OK

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What's the state of painting now – and how does it relate to reality, Dharma practice and Buddhist life? A gem of a conversation with three working artists diving deep with life's big questions!

Today we meet three Buddhists with a full time professional painting practice, exhibiting at The Art Pavilion in Mile End Eco Park. And we’re treated to a generous and intimate conversation about the tensions and creative dynamics between an explicitly artistic life and an implicitly spiritual, even religious one. All in context of shared joy at exhibiting openly as Buddhists in a beautiful space surrounded by and inflected with nature. 

We explore the relationship between the values of Buddhism and the values of contemporary art – and between what we call ‘mindfulness’ and the actual work of painting, making marks, building things that somehow capture a spirit or an attitude to life. Intuitive, sometimes faltering discovery is part of it; so is awareness of impermanence, grief and death; so is something in its own way ‘multi-dimensional’. We tap into the “more than human” that again takes us back towards multiplicity in nature rather than away from it. Heck, we even work in A.I. (of course we do!).

This is all reflected and refracted through discussions around perspective, scale, layering, abstraction, breadth and depth, mixing, the materials painting is born from—linen, canvas, oil paint—and the mysterious resonance found at the softening, porous, reflective boundary between colour and form. 

It’s clear our three friends live out a practice where beauty and letting go is an adequate, even sometimes freeing response to suffering, at least some of the time. And there are the aches of aging and the accepting of limitations even as a sense of vital discovery and unfolding is still so strong. What comes through is how much their intention matters – to pay attention to, tune into, reality itself. Talking about painting may not be as much fun or as strong as standing in front of work and trying to see it, but it is possibly better than viewing reproductions! 

It was a privilege to be in this conversation with three deeply committed beings, artists and Dharma practitioners. And the world is that little bit brighter and more realised through their work.

Produced and presented by Candradasa, edited by Zac Pomphrey and Candradasa

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The Intimacy of Art and the Dharma

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What can we see in the faces of people photographed as they meditate? Come and explore some beautiful images with artist Hartley Woolf and friends!

Samādhi is the Sanskrit word for a state of peaceful, integrated absorption the mind can reach through meditation.

And people’s faces in meditation have been a source of fascination (and distraction) for documentary filmmaker Hartley Woolf since he began his own Buddhist practice. “I can’t help but enjoy taking in all the different expressions around me in the shrine room,” he says, “and wondering what’s going on inside the mind behind.”

Join us for a delightful conversation between an artist and some of his subjects (Bhadra, Eugene Furniss and Maitrijyoti) as we explore the beautiful intimacy of this unique art project. In the most mindful way, Hartley sets out to capture something of the mystery of meditation, expressed in the faces of a diverse set of humans trying to be present with their experience. The result is an extraordinary book of portrait photography and we are privileged to hear reflections after the fact from some of those sitting and from the artist himself.

Self-consciousness and self-perception, what we look for in people’s faces and expressions, the vulnerability of meditating with others and of being witnessed – this conversation flows, you might say, like the breath, opening into a space of genuine shared gratitude for a memorable shared experience of sitting in stillness, and being in relationship.

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Portraits of Samadhi

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We are sitting in an East End art studio talking about death. The London tube rolls by outside, surfacing momentarily from tunnels dark as Hades, trundling its occupants inexorably on to somewhere. You can hear at intervals its soothing, almost womb-like background rumble and hush as a reminder of sorts - fitting sound as backdrop to this conversation with Buddhist artist Hugh Mendes, whose celebrated series ‘Obituaries’ we are exploring in a new online ‘Story’ space: ‘The Impermanence of Everyone’.

Explore the work of Hugh Mendes and watch the accompanying film about the Buddhist aspects of his work:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/stories/the-impermanence-of-everyone-the-art-of-hugh-mendes-paramabodhi/

Far from being grim or at all didactic, these canvases light us up when we see them: whether with recognition of a famous face; startled apprehension that this is the artist’s dead father not long after the moment of death; or fascination at the mysterious techniques of oil painting and how on earth it survives and thrives as a medium in the contemporary art world.

Mendes - ordained Buddhist name, Paramabodhi (“Supreme Enlightenment“) - loves painting, loves meditating, and loves teaching both. His practice - as artist and Buddhist - is fused in the ongoing contemplation of impermanence as a core aspect of whatever it is we mean when we say “reality”.  Equally at ease immersing himself in the Satipatthana Sutta, with its exercises contemplating the decomposition of our own body as a corpse, or becoming deeply absorbed in the physical act of painting for hours on end every day, Mendes is usually in touch with something both intimate and detailed, vast and universal.

We hear about his time teaching art in in San Francisco, where he also co-founded the San Francisco Buddhist Center in the city’s Mission District. His years of training and counter-cultural experiment at Chelsea Art school in the 1970s, where he booked the Sex Pistols for one of their first ever gigs. And his return to London following the death of his father to focus on art practice and, latterly, public Buddhist teaching at the London Buddhist Centre. 

We also discuss the challenges for both Buddhism and art of reaching a more diverse group of people - finding ways to cross class, racial, gender and financial boundaries. One of Mendes’ great heroes in this is the Indian Buddhist leader and author of the Indian Constitution, Dr. Bimrao Ambedkar. It’s fascinating to watch the artist very much at home in his studio, surrounded by inspirational figures mythic and human, all looking back at him as he tries to capture both their own versions of themselves and our culture’s gaze as they exit life and are being memorialized. We get to dwell with Mendes as he continues his decades-long meditation on the elusive nature of selfhood and identity that slips in and out of light and shadow yet may - sometimes - be beautifully and usefully reflected in the eye of the beholder.

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The Impermanence of Everyone - The Art of Hugh Mendes (Paramabodhi)

Rehill Live In The Mix Ep 8.  Recorded Live from Medellin October 2/25

Rehill - Nefarious Sessions Vol 8

Listen to this after your workout to switch on your parasympathetic nervous system by relaxing, which starts up the muscle growth cycle faster. 

Feel good about your workout. 

Feel proud of what you have done and feel the changes happening. 

You will find your heart rate decreasing, digestion increasing, and
over well-being back to an easy energy. 

Your muscles begin to grow larger and harder, while your skin smooths out.

Runtime 24 minutes

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A 30-minute meditation with a gentle body-scan, connecting the body and the breath. 

From The Sharpham Trust, led by Lynne Holmes


30-minute body and breath practice with Lynne Holmes

Being kind to oneself isn't just about doing acts of self-kindness. This 30-minute meditation is on cultivating an attitude of self-kindness with which to welcome one's experience, whatever it may be. 

Recorded from one of the weekly online meditations from The Sharpham Trust, led that week by Will Evans.


30-minute practice for holding experience with kindness with Will Evans

A short spoken contemplation from The Wind Speaks.  An unedited reflection to help you pause and return to what’s true inside.

#6 Exploring Self-Awareness and Action

A través de esta meditación a entrarás en conexión con tu interior, con tus intenciones más autenticas para manifestarlas en tu realidad. El portal está dentro de ti, atraviesa eso que te impide alcanzar y concretar tus metas y la vida que deseas.

Meditacion. Atraviesa el Portal 11:11

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