The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129306 Message #2901452
Posted By: Dan Schatz
06-May-10 - 03:13 PM
Thread Name: Songs relating to Buddhism/Zen/etc
Subject: RE: Songs relating to Buddhism/Zen/etc
Well aside from Mark Graham's hilarious "Zen Gosepl" ("Om, Om, sweet Om") there's Ferron's "The Return," although it may be slightly more Taoist than Buddhist:
Gonna lay my head on your blessed arms Take my cue from the willow tree For it don't break with just one storm But bends witha will that keeps it free.
My song, "Prayer," which will be on my new CD, relates very much to impermanence and non-attachment:
May life abide and change from day to day Where growth inside is a never ending way And if I want this here and now to stay May I find wisdom to move on and memory that remains
You'll have to wait a couple months for that one, though, or send me a pm.