ARTS: Buddhist Pop

[Brett]

Hey everyone,
So I was playing music with a buddy of mine this morning and one of the songs we did was Pearl Jam’s Just Breath and I thought to myself what a great Buddhist pop/rock song. My wife is driving us around town doing grocery shopping for the week while my son snoozes in the car so I am making a Buddhist Pop/Rock playlist and wondered if anyone would like to join in. So far my list is:

SPOTIFY PLAYLIST >>

Just Breath - Pearl Jam
Everything Zen - Bush
Imagine - John Lennon
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Life on Mars - David Bowie
Pardon Me - Incubus
What it’s Like - Everlast
You Can’t Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
In My Life - The Beatles
Carry On - Angra
House of the Rising Sun -The Animals
Samsara - Itto
Imagination - Just an Illusion


What would you add to the list?

St/lah
Gassho,
Brett

[Bion]

HA! thanks for this! I'm thinking we could actually create playlists on Spotify or Apple Music, whatever folks use, and add them to the post and then update as suggestions might come in!

My first suggestion is Rare Form - Being Time (literally based off of Dogen Zenji's Uji )

gassho
sat and lah

[Brett]

HA! thanks for this! I'm thinking we could actually create playlists on Spotify or Apple Music, whatever folks use, and add them to the post and then update as suggestions might come in!

My first suggestion is Rare Form - Being Time (literally based off of Dogen Zenji's Uji )

gassho
sat and lah

Great addition Bion, really enjoyed that song.

I have created the playlist on Spotify search for “Buddhist Pop/Rock” to find it.

St/lah
Gassho,
Brett

[Bion]

Great addition Bion, really enjoyed that song.

I have created the playlist on Spotify search for “Buddhist Pop/Rock” to find it.

St/lah
Gassho,
Brett

Need more info than that! It’s too many results

Gassho
Sat and lah

[Brett]

Need more info than that! It’s too many results

Gassho
Sat and lah

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FsD15pPDkiWEtDXqtAKSd?si=4W3JSnC8T3q7Mha7nRIWXQ&pt=c61f4c640ed6afa551107933e87841b6&pi=u-QkwV-4YaQNyw

Hope this link works.

St/lah
Gassho,
Brett

[Bion]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F...u-QkwV-4YaQNyw


Hope this link works.

St/lah
Gassho,
Brett

PERFECT! I added it to your original post. Awesome!!!


gassho
sat and lah

[Tai Do]

I don't know if it qualifies, but Carry On from Angra feels kind of Buddhist to me.
Gassho,
Tai Do
Satlah

[Jundo]

In my learning the guitar (I have all the main chords, although I still need to fake F and some of the Bs) ... I now do a dandy House of the Rising Sun ...

... which is, I tell you, a teaching on Karma and Samsara.

Of course, every song is a "Buddhist Song" when heard with wisdom and compassion.

Gassho, J

stlah

[Brett]

In my learning the guitar (I have all the main chords, although I still need to fake F and some of the Bs) ... I now do a dandy House of the Rising Sun ...

... which is, I tell you, a teaching on Karma and Samsara.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aac5heIaz1M

Of course, every song is a "Buddhist Song" when heard with wisdom and compassion.

Gassho, J

stlah

Nice one, also one of the first songs I learned on guitar.

St/lah

Gassho,
Brett

[Brett]

I don't know if it qualifies, but Carry On from Angra feels kind of Buddhist to me.
Gassho,
Tai Do
Satlah

Heavy, I dig it.

St/lah
Gassho,
Brett

[Kotei]

... which is, I tell you, a teaching on Karma and Samsara.

Reading Samsara reminded me on the "Samsara" track from Itto's album (No) Satori:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1CxRhkHK0

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Bion]

Reading Samsara reminded me on the "Samsara" track from Itto's album (No) Satori:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1CxRhkHK0

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

I did not expect that genre from you!!!

Gassho
Sat and lah

[Kokuu]

80s pop represents with Imagination 'Just an Illusion'!

(Could it be that)
It's just an illusion?
(Putting me back)
In all this confusion?
(Could it be that)
It's just an illusion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY4cVhXxW64

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-

[Jundo]

Do you know about Dharma, the Taiwanese Buddhist Metal bands?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZNEYa2AQFM

Japan has the Vowz Band ...

This song is "Somosan Seppa" ... In a Zen Mondo or Hossenshiki "Dharma Combat," "Somosan" is used to refer to the person asking the question, and it means something like "what's up!?" In response to "Somosan," it is common for the person being asked to respond with "Seppa" (meaning something like, "disruption.") The lyrics of the rest of the song say things like "The Super Super Question, Life, this World, is ALL a Zen Mondo" "Saving All Sentient Beings, Ya know" and "If you meet the Buddha, Kill the Buddha; If you meet Death, Kill Death," "If your finger points at the moon, cut it off and let it fall," "Put your hands together, What's the Sound of One Hand Clapping?" At points, they pick up a fortune telling box (pulling out the fortune sticks), and a cocktail mixer (this is the house band of the Vowz Bar, the monk run bar in Tokyo, see below). The guy in white is a lay pilgrim, and the woman is (I think, subject to further research) a Dakini in a Diadem Crown (a Hindu Goddess incorporated into Buddhism):

https://youtu.be/hcrpam38Ku4

They are associated with the Vowz Bar in Tokyo ... (How can priests manage a bar, given our Precepts and all? The basic idea is that one goes to where the suffering people are to reach the suffering people, and that the Mahayana Precepts can thus be kept in spirit (and spirits) if to save Sentient Beings. Japanese Buddhism is rather, shall we say, open minded ... ) ...

https://matcha-jp.com/en/8641

More Vowz Band (They are not all Zen priests, by the way, and the one fellow in the Wagesa, round Kesa, is Pure Land) ... set sometime in the future, in a dystopian world (probably right after somebody tried my Buddhist crispr idea ), this one says "Everything is Empty, Just a Temporary Form ... there is nothing that does not change ... Give voice to the Perfection of Wisdom, you'll probably get it ... The only important things is NAMU! ... So, AWAKEN! OPEN YOUR EYES! Let's get liberated (GEDATSU) from this world by this rhythm, GET GEDATSU!" The rap continues the theme that all is empty, so lets not get sucked into the Bonnos (Mental Obstructions, Desires, Illusions) ...

https://youtu.be/VhE_kglgOjY

Gassho, J

stlah

[Guest]

HA! thanks for this! I'm thinking we could actually create playlists on Spotify or Apple Music, whatever folks use, and add them to the post and then update as suggestions might come in!

My first suggestion is Rare Form - Being Time (literally based off of Dogen Zenji's Uji )

gassho
sat and lah

Ah, thanks for sharing my song Bion. My heavy prog rock stuff is the Yang to my yin. Playing heavy metal and prog rock guitar keeps me balanced.
Gassho
Daiman
st/lah

[Bion]

I was just coming to edit my post and make a mention of you, since you said it was ok, but you outed yourself haha

gassho
sat and lah