COMMENTS ON CHANTS AND SONGS

GENERATION STAGE - COMPLETION STAGE

This is a term used in Buddhist Tantra studies denoting the different stages of the journey.

     In the Generation stage one learns the stories formulas and moral structures of the system.  Devotion is “generated” for a particular Deity or Ideal.  This is a formal learning period, with set schedules and task to accomplish.

     The Completion Stage cannot be learned in any set kind of way.  It is “discovered” by the practitioner as they make their way through life, applying the lessons they have learned earlier.  Here one becomes the Deity, the process being “imperceptible” to the practitioner and everyone else.

     In western spiritual terms it could be stated like this:  first one learns devotion to God as an Object…latter…on must give up God as and Object in order to know God as Subjective.


Chant for  “Vanish in the Love”:

Heey yeh yeah haa Eloheim Elat O Shilo (twice)

Alaha Allah Eloheim Elat O Shilo

The first sounds are combined from an American Indian call to the Creator and the inner sound of the highest chakra in the Kabalistic system of spirituality.

Eloheim…Hebrew

Alaha…the name for God in common tongue in the mid-east before the    religions formed

Allah…Islam

Elat…comes from the old Canaanite language, and has God as feminine connotations

O Shilo…Christian…meaning join all these influences in one peace.
 

Chant for Kalachakra Mantra Tantra:
 
Om Ah hum ho ham ka sha ma la varya phat

Om prem Vishva mata hum hum phat

In much of the sacred art of Tibet you will see figures with many arms, holding all kinds of strange objects.  It is meant to represent “waves” of energy that flow out of a Being no longer trapped in societies limited views.  The instruments represent various tools for cutting away delusion, and also many gifts of a healing nature given off in these waves of “Sound.”  The deities usually have fangs, this represents that love is fierce… it has no weakness or fear in it…it is the most powerful force.

The Sounds of the chant are all sounds that come form the inside, clearing away obstacles in the body mind and speech…opening large room in oneself for unbounded energy to move out and change the world around you.  After learning the sounds…imagine yourself as a being with many arms…flowing the energy and blessings out into the world as you dance.


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Comments on the song: “Out on the Road”

When I sang this live in one of my classes, many of my more ‘sensitive’ friends were disturbed at the words … “got my name…got my friends…and I’m always right.”  That kind of confidence is looked on with serious scrutiny in this day and age.  The world is full of lots of insane people who insist that they are ‘right’…and then going around creating great sorrow.  In this song those words are imagery and a metaphor that comes from riding in the pack with your friends.  When you are moving 70 mph, with your friends on all side of you 10 ft away…you are always “right”…you make no mistakes.  So the line is meant of a statement of love, not arrogance.  You invoke excellence out of love for your friends.  This is the meaning of the words.