This afternoon we got creative and made a video. My friend Ven. Nakamura Gyomyo is innovative and likes to recite texts with unorthodox instruments like an electric guitar. So we made this video of his rendition of the dharani found in Chapter 26 of the Lotus Sutra. He called it psychedelic, so I made it visually psychedelic as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tMhMPIuCnM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Psychedelic Buddhist Dharani on Electric Guitar
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I really liked this one:
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Re: Psychedelic Buddhist Dharani on Electric Guitar
Like flashbacks....far out!Huseng wrote:... so I made it visually psychedelic as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tMhMPIuCnM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Wow..cool teacher ! Loved the vids !
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Here's the other one we made. Namu Myoho Renge Kyo (from Lotus Sutra) on Electric guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwveoMtHe00" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Unorthodox, but this is far more appealing to modern people than hitting a wooden fish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwveoMtHe00" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Unorthodox, but this is far more appealing to modern people than hitting a wooden fish.
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Loved it !
I did read the Lotus Sutra too...thought it was beautiful !
I love Sutras !
I did read the Lotus Sutra too...thought it was beautiful !
I love Sutras !