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The Lokah Peace Prayer

Brian K. Noe · December 14, 2023 ·

After completing the recording of the Cowboy Mahamantra I asked my wife, Claudia, what we should record next. Without any hesitation, she chose this ancient Sanskrit invocation of compassion and peace.

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

“May all beings everywhere be blessed. I devote myself to this goal.”

I set to work on the melody, and have been fiddling around with it for a few weeks now. This morning I did an impromptu Facebook livestream with what I have so far.

I’m still not very comfortable with the Spanish Guitar. 🙂

Look for a full recording of this one in the next couple of months.

In the meantime, here is my wish and blessing for you. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you live in safety. May you be free.

Filed Under: Music, Video Tagged With: Homemade Music, Lokah Peace Prayer, Mantra, Mantras, Original Music, Peace, Recording Projects, Spanish Guitar

New Recording: Cowboy Mahamantra

Brian K. Noe · November 1, 2023 ·

About three and a half years ago, my wife needed a backing track for mantra practice. Being a musician, with a little bit of experience in audio production from radio and podcasting days, I recorded a very basic track for her. One thing led to another, and eventually Kirtan Music became a huge part of my life.

At some point, this melody came to me, and I decided to do my best to make a listenable recording of it.

The project began in earnest in mid-July of this year when I recorded the first acoustic guitar track. I finally wrapped up the final mix yesterday, and published the YouTube video.

Here’s a link to the post at Shyamatara Das with more information on the recording.

Today I’m in the process of distribution elsewhere, with the goal of making the song as widely available as possible. I have no illusions of fame or fortune, but I want to ensure that anyone can listen on their preferred music platform.

Some of the music platforms will not allow songs to be offered without charge, but I wanted to make sure that the song is available for free to anyone who wants it. So it has been uploaded to the Internet Archive, and can be found at this link. https://archive.org/details/the-cowboy-mahamantra

It’s also available on BandCamp, with any proceeds from that being donated to the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram in Taos.

If you use Spotify, you can pre-save the track here.

It should also be available soon on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeart Radio and elsewhere.

I’ll either update this post, or add new ones when links to the other services become available.

I hope you enjoy singing along!

ॐ†


UPDATE: 2 November 2023

The song is now available on most of the major streaming services.

https://noebie.com/the-cowboy-mahamantra/

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Audio, Bhakti, Chants, Devotions, Hare Krishna, Kirtan, Mahamantra, Mantra, Mantras, Original Music, YouTube

Livestream: Catching Up and Talking About Mantra Practice

Brian K. Noe · September 4, 2021 ·

I went live on Facebook to jabber about what we did over the Summer of 2021, and also to talk just a bit about Mantra Practice.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: Facebook Live, Life, Mantras, Summer 2021

Chanting the Names

Brian K. Noe · May 9, 2020 ·

 

Ram, Sita, Hanuman PosterI began chanting the Sadaksara occasionally from the time I first obtained a Tibetan mala many years ago. Over the past year, as I took up the daily practice of meditation, I have alternated between it and the Adi Mantra (which we learned from Chand Shiva Singh, our Kundalini Teacher).

As my wife, Claudia, began her daily practice, she first used the Kirtan Kriya and then the Siri Gaitri Mantra.

Although all of these mantras have deep spiritual significance, none of them invoke (or make reference to) particular deities.

Over the past few weeks, though, I have been learning about the rich devotional tradition of bhakti. Much of that practice centers on repeating the names of various Hindu gods and goddesses.

Raised, as I was, in an Evangelical Protestant Christian home, I was taught that this sort of activity is akin to devil worship. Even the reverence of Christian Saints practiced by Roman Catholics was considered to be idolatry in our church. When I became Catholic, it took considerable study and soul searching for me to overcome this knee-jerk aversion stemmed in my upbringing.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that an idolater is someone who “transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God.” Most Catholics, I suspect, would take this to be a prohibition against reverence to any god with a name coming from a tradition other than that of Judaism and Christianity.

Here is what I have come to believe. Our notions about God, and our faith traditions, are limited by our human capacities. Although we Catholics believe that scripture is inspired, we must also accept that the human beings who wrote the scriptures experienced the same limits of language and culture that we ourselves face. We are all trying to understand and describe something that is far beyond our ability to comprehend and convey. We can have an experience of the divine, but we can only approximate that experience when we try to conceptualize or describe it.

All of the world’s major religions have something to add to our understanding of why we are all here, and how we ought to pursue our lives. For me, Christianity in general, and Roman Catholic Christianity in particular, do better on the whole in the tasks of informing my conscience and nourishing my spirit – but I did not become Catholic because I believe that our teachings reveal the “one and only truth.” I do believe that there is truth to be found in the teachings of the Catholic Church, and in the way that we worship and work together. But this does not mean that we cannot also be nourished by the practices, and guided by the wisdom, of other religious traditions.

One of the great lights of kirtan in our age, Krishna Das, says that the practice of bhakti is singing to the loving presence that is always present within us and around us. “This loving presence may be called by all these names.”

In recent days, I have found great nourishment and comfort in singing the names of Rama, Sita, Hanuman, Krishna, Radha, Durga, Shiva – the list goes on and on. These names, for me, represent aspects of God, not beings who are distinct from God. I believe that learning their stories and chanting their names is another way of bringing more light into my life, and more love into my heart. I suppose that greater compassion will be the ultimate test of whether or not this is true.

All One.

 

Filed Under: Essays Tagged With: All One, Bhakti, Chants, Devotions, Faith, Folk Music, Hindu, Homemade Music, India, Interfaith Dialogue, Kirtan, Mantras, Music, Yoga

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