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Hope - Extended version

Song To The Pleiades

This track is from the album Shaman's Drums and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: https://michaeldrake1.bandcamp.com/album/shamans-drums.

Shaman's Drums combines trance-inducing drums, native flutes and droning didgeridoos in a rousing celebration of shamanic music. The music on this album is based on a simple trio of shamanic instruments: the drum, the flute and the didgeridoo. Each instrument opens a path of communication between the spiritual and earthly realms. Each instrument helps induce trance states, opening the inner, spiritual ear and eye. Each is related to the soul, which extends far beyond the physical body, connecting us to the symphony of the universe.

The sound of the shaman's drum is very important, for it is a voice with great power and it is a voice that is a gift to us from a greater being. Its steady beat is akin to the primal pulse, the heart, throbbing within all that exists. The shaman uses the drum to create a bridge to the spirit world and summon the healing power of spirit.

Aboriginal tradition equates the low-pitched, rhythmic resonance of the didgeridoo with the voice of the Earth itself. According to an Aboriginal Dreamtime legend, the god of creation Baiame created man and woman, giving them the didgeridoo to sound all other life into form. Didgeridoos produce a range of infrasonics; extremely low frequency sound waves that stimulate a wide array of euphoric trance-like states.

The flute is akin to birds, flight and the breath, which is spirit. Its chirp, warble, and bird-like notes make your heart soar. Its sound represents the voice of the birds, the voice of the wind and the voice of the soul -- those things that are free to move and fly. So taken all together this trio; the flute, drum, and didgeridoo, represents the whole voice of Creation.

Shaman's Drums

Snake Dance

(Letra e Música: Ernani Fornari) Vozes e percussão: Ernani Fornari
Gravação e mixagem: Fab Macedo

Pindorama

Ai meu Deus !  Samasati 4

He Yama Yo

The Medicine Buddha Mantra 

OM namo bhagawate Bhaishjaya guru 
vaidurya prabha rajaya tathagataya 
arhate samyaksam buddhaya teyatha 
om bekhajye bekhajye maha bekhajye 
bekhajye rajaya samudgate svaha 


The mantra means (free explanation): 
May the many sentient beings 
who suffer from sickness and ignorence, 
quickly be freed from this great human dis ease. 
And may all the sicknesses of beings 
Never arise again.


Join in at any time in this World Wide Healing Circle by chanting the Medicine Buddha Mantra for those who need a blessing for physical, mental and/or emotional well-being. 

You need not be a Buddhist to participate in chanting this marvelous mantra.
Medicine Buddha has promised healing to all the worlds, the mantra is secular so all can join and chant. 

1. OM:  we begin with Om, the under-current tone of the universe
 
2. NAMO:  means yielding or full of trust; can also mean to bend or bow, and might mean to melt into
 
3. Bhagawate: means in intimate relation to the Divine and often means the entire cosmos 
 
4. Bhaishjaye:  a name for the Medicine Buddha 
 
5. Guru: Spiritual Master; also means the “that” which transmutes ignorance into wisdom
 
6. Vaidurya prabha:  Divine deep blue light, like that of Lapis Lazuli
 
7. Rajaya:  means Great King 
 
8. Tathagataya:  means once came or once gone 
 
9. Arhate:  one who has conquered the cycle of birth death 
 
10. Samyaksam buddhaya:  perfectly enlightened 
 
11. Teyatha:  do it like this 
 
12. OM:  again we begin with Om, the under-current tone of the universe
 
13. Bekhajye bekhajye:  do away with the pain of illness
 
14. Maha bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness (of the darkness of Spiritual Ignorance)
 
15. Bekhajye:  do away with the pain of illness 
 
16. Samudgate:  means the supreme heights. Like this, go go go 
      (my prayer shall go to the highest and the widest and the deepest)
 
17. Svaha:  I offer this prayer and now relinquish it …  (to you Medicine Buddha)
 

Explanation of the meaning of the Mantra
 
TAYATA / OM BEKANDZE BEKANDZE / MAHA BEKANDZE RADZA / SAMUDGATE SOHA 

Bekandze means eliminating pain, maha bekandze means great eliminating of pain. One explanation of the meaning of the first bekandze is that it refers to eliminating the pain of true suffering, not just of disease but of all problems. It eliminates the pain of death and rebirth that are caused by karma and disturbing thoughts. The first bekandze eliminates all the problems of body and mind, including old age and sickness. 

The second bekandze eliminates all the true cause of suffering, which is not external but within the mind. This refers to karma and disturbing thoughts. It is the inner cause that enables external factors such as food and exposure to sunlight to become conditions for disease.

Scientists claim that intense exposure to the sun causes skin cancer. However, without the cause in the mind, there is nothing to make external factors become conditions for disease. Exposure to sunlight is a condition for skin cancer, but it is not the main cause. For those who have created the cause to get skin cancer, the external phenomenon of sunlight can become a condition for skin cancer. 

For example, not everyone who sunbathes on the beach gets skin cancer. Also human beings have been exposing themselves to the sun for many thousands of years, but skin cancer is a comparatively recent phenomenon. The important question is: Why doesn’t everyone who is exposed to the sun get skin cancer? The proof that sunlight is not the main cause of skin cancer is that not everyone who is exposed to the sun gets skin cancer.

If someone has created the cause, as long as they do not do anything to purify it, the cause will definitely bring its own result; just as a seed that is planted will definitely result in a sprout as long as it is not eaten by birds, and so forth. Once there is a cause, as long as there is no obstacle to the cause, it is natural to experience its result. 

So, the second bekandze refers to eliminating the cause of problems, karma motivated by disturbing thoughts. 

The third phrase, maha bekandze, or “great eliminating,” refers to eliminating even the subtle imprints left on the consciousness by disturbing thoughts. 

The Medicine Buddha mantra actually contains the remedy of the whole graduated path to enlightenment. The first bekandze contains the graduated path of the lower capable being in general; the second bekandze, the graduated path of the middle capable being in general; and maha bekandze, the graduated path of the higher capable being. The whole graduated path from the beginning up to the peerless happiness of full enlightenment is contained in the Medicine Buddha Mantra. 

Reciting the mantra leaves imprints on our mind, so that we are also able to actualize the path contained in the mantra. It establishes the blessing of the whole path within our heart; we can then generate the whole graduated path to enlightenment, which is signified by bekandze bekandze maha bekandze. 

The OM is composed of three sounds, ah, o, and ma, which signify the Medicine Buddha’s completely pure holy body, holy speech, and holy mind. Actualizing the whole path to enlightenment purifies our impure body, speech, and mind and transforms them into the Medicine Buddha’s pure holy body, holy speech, and holy mind. We then become a perfect guide for living beings. 

With our omniscient mind we are able to effortlessly, directly, see, without mistake, the level of mind of every living being and all the methods that fit them in order to bring them from happiness to happiness, to the peerless happiness of full enlightenment.

We also have the perfect power to manifest in various forms to suit every living being and reveal the necessary methods to guide them, such as giving material help, education, or Dharma teachings. Whenever the positive imprint left by their past positive actions ripens, without delay of even a second, we can reveal various means to guide the living being to enlightenment.

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