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Monday, January 4, 2016
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Sunday, January 3, 2016
Auld Lang Syne...
Listen. To our friends, some
half a century Auld
Lang Syne...
Jksw
The song, of course, derives from a 1788 Scots poem by Robert Burns;
now set to the tune of a traditional folk song.
Burns never intended his work to act as a farewell to the old year;
it's a piece which partially reproduces, partially originally pens an
older folk tune.
He originally sent the piece to the Scots Musical Museum with a
note,
"The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has
never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old
man."
Dedicated to
you!!
From: J B/JKSW
Subject: FW: THE New Year
Subject: FW: THE New Year
The phrase "for
auld lang syne" essentially boils down to "for (the sake of) old
times". It's a work which essentially calls for
the preservation of our oldest, dearest friendships; perhaps observed in
the reflective quality of New Year's Eve itself. A time when people come
together to recall past joys and sorrows, specifically those spent in each
other's company.
Now, there are several
variations of what's sung on New Year's Eve; first
off, we've printed Burns' original Scots verse if you want to keep things authentic. Below that, a simplified English
translation.
Burns' original Scots verse
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my jo,
for auld lang syne,
we’lltak' a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely ye’ll be your pint-stoup!
and surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak' a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my jo,
for auld lang syne,
we’lltak' a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely ye’ll be your pint-stoup!
and surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak' a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We twa hae run about the braes,
and pou’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin' auld lang syne.
We twa hae run about the braes,
and pou’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin' auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,
frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin' auld lang syne.
frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin' auld lang syne.
CHORUS
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere!
and gie's a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak' a right gude-willie waught,
for auld lang syne.
and gie's a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak' a right gude-willie waught,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
English translation
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne?
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne?
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup!
and surely I’ll buy mine!
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
and surely I’ll buy mine!
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
and picked the daisies fine;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
And there’s a hand my trusty friend!
And give me a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.
And give me a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
Dedicated to
you
A.R. Rahman.
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Lagaan Hindi film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC3DmRfEigg
Back in 1992 a new music director, south Indian A.R. Rahaman took the world
by storm with "Roja".
A living legend, perhaps 50 years old now, unparalled in both western and
eastern music.
The film Lagaan 2002 is possibly one of his best among hundreds.
A musical with a do or die cricket contest between the British and the
locals.
He won an international award for his music in 'Slum Dog Millionaire'. To
me, that was a flop.
Listen to all the songs in Lagaan. You can listen to all by clicking on
each.
Music, tunes, drums, balance, vocal variations both in pitch and volume to
suit, choreography, are outstanding
Even to a non Asian.
jksw
Back in 1992 a new music director, south Indian A.R. Rahaman took the world
by storm with "Roja".
A living legend, perhaps 50 years old now, unparalled in both western and
eastern music.
The film Lagaan 2002 is possibly one of his best among hundreds.
A musical with a do or die cricket contest between the British and the
locals.
He won an international award for his music in 'Slum Dog Millionaire'. To
me, that was a flop.
Listen to all the songs in Lagaan. You can listen to all by clicking on
each.
Music, tunes, drums, balance, vocal variations both in pitch and volume to
suit, choreography, are outstanding
Even to a non Asian.
jksw
CT Fernando, songs.
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A Collection of Ajahn Brahm Quotes
email from Daya Jayasinghe
63 sayings from Ajahn Brahm in print
Let Ajahn Brahm’s words guide, inspire and touch your heart.
Delight in developing kindness, peace and wisdom and live a happy and
fulfilling life.
Sīla
Sīla is the Pali term for virtue. It is the cultivation of
harmlessness, kindness, generosity and care by
body, speech and mind. It could also be translated
as character, habit or morality. Your understanding
of what is skilful and what is unskilful, and the
inspiration you get from your own heart or from
seeing living examples, will enable you to let go of
unwholesome habits and tendencies and to develop
the wholesome qualities in your mind. The practice
of morality makes your heart pure, and a pure
heart is a happy heart well prepared for the
practice of meditation
Sīla is the Pali term for virtue. It is the cultivation of
harmlessness, kindness, generosity and care by
body, speech and mind. It could also be translated
as character, habit or morality. Your understanding
of what is skilful and what is unskilful, and the
inspiration you get from your own heart or from
seeing living examples, will enable you to let go of
unwholesome habits and tendencies and to develop
the wholesome qualities in your mind. The practice
of morality makes your heart pure, and a pure
heart is a happy heart well prepared for the
practice of meditation
1 )If you want to have a good time, be good.
2) Real beauty does not lie in perfection, but in embracing
and accepting imperfection
3) Love is the ability to embrace the imperfections of another, of ourselves and of life.
3) Love is the ability to embrace the imperfections of another, of ourselves and of life.
4) Instead of having a fault-finding mind, develop the
beautiful attitude of gratitude
5) Whatever you value, whatever you think is really
important,
that is what will develop and grow.
that is what will develop and grow.
6) Water the flowers in your garden, don’t water the weeds
7) What you see in others, that’s what they will show you
back.
8) Don’t worry too much about what goes into your mouth.
It’s much more important to worry about what comes out of it
It’s much more important to worry about what comes out of it
9) A lot of anger comes from not seeing the full picture,
from not
understanding the truth of the matter.
understanding the truth of the matter.
10) What’s more important, being right or living in harmony
together?
11) It’s never his problem, her problem or my problem, it’s always our problem. We are in this together. That’s how you solve the problem.
11) It’s never his problem, her problem or my problem, it’s always our problem. We are in this together. That’s how you solve the problem.
12) If there is nothing you can do, then do nothing.If there
is something you can do, then give it all you’ve got.
13) You can’t always cure, but you can always care.
14) Whenever there is a tragedy, it gives us the opportunity
to care, to give, to help and to serve.
15) Always put happiness and joy into whatever you are
doing.
16) Little acts of kindness are huge. They make both you and
others very happy.
These are what we call: instant karmic rewards.
These are what we call: instant karmic rewards.
17) Merit is not something you store up for a future life,
it’s what you put into your heart for now.
18) Real generosity is giving, expecting nothing back in
return.
19) Inspiration is a beautiful source of pure energy that
uplifts your heart
20) A lot of the time you learn the most from osmosis, by just
hanging around good people.
21) When you cultivate a beautiful mind throughout the day,
you will have a beautiful mind in meditation.
Samādhi
Samādhi is the Pali term for deep meditation, or for collectedness and unification of mind. It is not achieved through force or striving, but through restraining and relinquishing unwholesome qualities and through the cultivation and development of wholesome ones. Mindfulness and kindness will allow a positive and happy mind to settle down, and to enter deeper and deeper into stillness and peace. The purification that happens through the practice of meditation will give your mind the strength and clarity required to uncover, to face and to penetrate to the truth.
Samādhi is the Pali term for deep meditation, or for collectedness and unification of mind. It is not achieved through force or striving, but through restraining and relinquishing unwholesome qualities and through the cultivation and development of wholesome ones. Mindfulness and kindness will allow a positive and happy mind to settle down, and to enter deeper and deeper into stillness and peace. The purification that happens through the practice of meditation will give your mind the strength and clarity required to uncover, to face and to penetrate to the truth.
22) Your real home is not the house you live in, but the
stillness and peace in your heart.
23) Forget about the results. Creating the causes; that’s
your work.
The results will come by themselves.
The results will come by themselves.
24) The essence of meditation is your attitude.
25) It’s not important what you are meditating on, but how
you are meditating.
26)Whatever you are aware of, you need that magical
ingredient of kindness.
When you are kind to what you are watching, it relaxes and so do you.
When you are kind to what you are watching, it relaxes and so do you.
27)Put a lot of attention in the space between you and
whatever you are aware of.
And make sure there are wholesome qualities in that space: kindness, gentleness, peace and patience.
And make sure there are wholesome qualities in that space: kindness, gentleness, peace and patience.
28) Can you make peace?
Can you be kind?
Can you be gentle?
If you can, then you can meditate.
Can you be kind?
Can you be gentle?
If you can, then you can meditate.
29) Right intention makes the present moment a pleasant
moment.
30) Delight is the glue that makes your attention stick to
the object.
31) Yes, being a control freak and using willpower may give
you mindfulness.
But it’s not the type of mindfulness that will lead to happiness, stillness or insight.
Playfulness and joy, the power of wisdom, that creates great mindfulness.
But it’s not the type of mindfulness that will lead to happiness, stillness or insight.
Playfulness and joy, the power of wisdom, that creates great mindfulness.
32) The way of meditation is not force and will power, but
wisdom power.
33) The energy of the mind can be directed in two ways:
It can either go into reacting, doing, thinking, struggling and striving;
or
it can go into letting go, not being involved, not getting entangled,
and just being aware without reacting.
It can either go into reacting, doing, thinking, struggling and striving;
or
it can go into letting go, not being involved, not getting entangled,
and just being aware without reacting.
34) The more you do, the more you strive, the more you wear
your mind out.
35) Don’t do letting go, let go of doing.
36) Right effort is the effort to stop, to restrain, to let
go to give up, to renounce
37) The nature of the human mind is to be still.
It only moves because of the winds of wanting
It only moves because of the winds of wanting
38) Meditation is not about attaining more things, but about
letting go of things
and becoming more free.
and becoming more free.
39) When you want something more, you cannot enjoy what you
already have.
40) It’s very hard to progress in meditation,when you have a
fault-finding mind.
You always see what’s wrong, you never see the beauty.
You always see what’s wrong, you never see the beauty.
41) Wherever you happen to be on the path of meditation,
please want to be there.
If you want to be somewhere else, that’s the end of your progress
If you want to be somewhere else, that’s the end of your progress
42) It’s the nature of contentment to deepen –to become more
brilliant, more happy,
more blissful, more profound and empty –if you just stay with it long enough.
more blissful, more profound and empty –if you just stay with it long enough.
Pañña
Pañña is the Pali term for wisdom or insight; seeing the world clearly without distortion. It is the deep understanding of the human condition that emerges out of the pure and peaceful mind.
Pañña is always born of silence and stillness, of an open, receptive and unbiased heart. A mind full of thoughts is not ready to listen deeply enough.
Insight into the nature of things, whether small or huge and life changing, always sets you free and fills your heart with unconditional love and compassion for all beings.
Pañña is the Pali term for wisdom or insight; seeing the world clearly without distortion. It is the deep understanding of the human condition that emerges out of the pure and peaceful mind.
Pañña is always born of silence and stillness, of an open, receptive and unbiased heart. A mind full of thoughts is not ready to listen deeply enough.
Insight into the nature of things, whether small or huge and life changing, always sets you free and fills your heart with unconditional love and compassion for all beings.
43) In Buddhism we don’t fight our defilements,we understand
them.
And when we know them, they disappear.
And when we know them, they disappear.
44) When you face the problem and bring it close to you, you
have a chance to understand it.
When you run away, your face is turned in the opposite direction
When you run away, your face is turned in the opposite direction
45) Wisdom is all around us and insight is there for the
taking,
but when there is too much noise we just can’t hear life teaching us.
but when there is too much noise we just can’t hear life teaching us.
46) All thinking is about something. It is always one step
away from penetrating the truth of the matter.
47) You don’t need to give things a name… …just know them.
48) Never allow your knowledge to stand in the way of truth.
49) Don’t bend the truth to fit your beliefs,
bend your beliefs to fit the truth.
bend your beliefs to fit the truth.
50) Life is a flow of unexpected moments.
51) Your future is uncertain.
Whatever you expect it to be,
it will always be totally different.
Whatever you expect it to be,
it will always be totally different.
52) You can either be caught up in this world and in your
desires... or you can be free.
53) Suffering is asking from the world what it can never
give you.
54) Freedom is realising that you can't control life.
55) Pleasure is just a pause between two moments of pain.
And pain is just the space between two moments of pleasure.
And pain is just the space between two moments of pleasure.
56) Whatever disturbance there is,
it only lasts for a few moments.
But if you allow it to echo in your mind,
it will keep on going for a long time.
it only lasts for a few moments.
But if you allow it to echo in your mind,
it will keep on going for a long time.
57) We are prisoners of our own concepts.
58) Hell is a place with an open door.
You send yourself there because of guilt.
If you know what love and forgiveness are, you can walk out any
time you want
You send yourself there because of guilt.
If you know what love and forgiveness are, you can walk out any
time you want
59) It’s amazing how free you can be, if you don’t limit
yourself to your past
60) The nature of life is that it settles down and finds a
balance all by itself.
61) Where there is a self, there are things belonging to a
self.
Where there is no self, there is no sense of ownership.
Where there is no self, there is no sense of ownership.
62) When you don’t have a solid sense of self, you can adapt
to whatever situation you happen to be in.
63) When you disappear, when there is no traveller, then the
path becomes as wide as a multi-lane highway - you just can't miss it.
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