Buddha’s Words

“The highest wealth of a man is contentment”  – Buddha

‘Mercy’ from Sacred Ragas album

The following are the liner notes of track 8 called “mercy” from our album “sacred ragas” and the inspiration for the music. Track 8- Mercy Track 8 – raag bageshri was the basis of the composition here using the kyrie chant. The raga corresponds to the sixth chakra and represents the sixth stage of man’s evolution. It has been influenced by the writings of C S Lewis, who tells an interesting story in his book, “The Great Divorce.” A busload of ghosts is making an excursion from hell up to heaven with a view of remaining there permanently. They meet the citizens of heaven and one very big ghost from hell is astonished to find there a man, who on earth, had been tried and executed for murder. “What I would like to know,” he explodes, “is what are you doing here, you a murderer, while I a pillar of society, a self-respecting decent citizen am forced to walk the streets down there in smoke and fumes and must live in a place like a pigsty.” His friend from heaven tries to explain that he has been forgiven, that both he and the man he had murdered have been reunited before the judgment seat of Christ. But the big ghost from hell replies, “I just can’t buy that!” “My rights!” he keeps shouting, “I have got to have my rights the same as you!” “Oh no!” his friend from heaven keeps reassuring him, “It’s not as bad as all that! You don’t want your rights! Why, if I had gotten my rights, I would never be here. You’ll not get your rights; you’ll get something far better. You will get the mercy of God.” This is why we pray ,”Lord, have mercy. Christ have mercy ’ or” Kyrie eleison”, Christe eleison”. This prayer, uttered with faith, opens the way for us to enter the final destination with God’s forgiveness and for the coming of His kingdom in our hearts. See website for album detail

The wisdom of Huang Po

Full understanding can come to you only through an inexpressible mystery. The approach to it is called the Gateway of the Stillness beyond all Activity. If you wish to understand, know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity. Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate. ” ~ Huang Po

Blessings~