Two additions
I really like this album https://youtu.be/3u-4fxKX8as
A top favorite track https://youtu.be/R8AOAap6_k4
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I was wondering this morning how ordained persons are able to exist without Mozart. … Then it occurred to me that this wonderment shows how far I am from being ready to ordain.
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“Well, I mean occasionally it seems to have, how shall one say?..”
“Too many notes, Your Majesty?”
“Exactly, too many notes”
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Currently, when at all I like to listen to music to support a quiet mood, it is often Asher Quinn with his complete LP on “prayer for love” (find it on youtube: YouTube - they have first song only).
Another one is David Anthony Clarc, “Terra Inhabitata” (find it on youtube YouTube - full album)
In general, I’ve dismissed many of my earlier loved and/or half-loved collections of classical music because it seems, they cannot “stay cool for longer than one moment”: after one or at most two nicely calm pieces there follows unconditionally one or more allegro, allegretto, crescendo, just killing the calmness just supported before - often I imagine the pianist heartily needs to show how fast (and dynamically) he can play…
So I’ve put all such playlists aside and resort to listen at most at one piece alone; but trust and confidence in -say- "Chopin’s greatest… " or “chilling Cellos” -cds is away…
(Ah, while I write this, the full J.S.Bach’s “concerto for oboe d’ amore” (find it on youtube YouTube - but I like more the version with Douglas Boyd) is still a favorite for calm and content sunday mornings)
… has become my handy-phonecall-melody when I’ve heard it first time … :-))
Natalie Merchant’s 2009 jazz folk cover of a long-forgotten 1872 poem by John Godfrey Saxe. The poem was the first English-language narration of the parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant and was published thirty years before Maj-Gen. Strong’s translation of the Udāna.
Here’s the original work…
THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT
A HINDOO FABLE
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.The First approached the elephant,
And, happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! but the elephant
Is nothing but a wall!”The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried: “Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ’tis mighty clear
This wonder of an elephant
Is very like a spear!”The Third approached the animal,
And, happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
“I see,” quoth he, “the elephant
Is very like a snake!”The Fourth reached out his eager hand,
And felt about the knee:
“What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain,” quoth he;
“’Tis clear enough the elephant
Is very like a tree.”The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: “E’en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an elephant
Is very like a fan!”The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
“I see,” quoth he, “the elephant
Is very like a rope!”And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!So, oft in theologic wars
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an elephant
Not one of them has seen!
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I thought monks are not allowed to listen to musics inspite !
Oh? At the risk of sounding jesuitical, what the rule makes an offence is the act of going to listen to music.
Now at that time there was a festival on a mountain-top in Rājagaha. The group of six monks went to see the festival on the mountain-top. People … spread it about, saying: “How can these recluses, sons of the Sakyans come to see dancing and singing and music like householders who enjoy pleasures of the senses?” They told this matter to the Lord. He said: “Monks, you should not go to see dancing or singing or music. Whoever should go, there is an offence of wrong-doing.”
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Bhante , i am not certain though that nowadays with one simple finger click away at our hands !
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Mindfulness in motion
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