"The Ceremony in the Air" from the Lotus Sutra & Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
Apparition of a Stupa (Treasure Tower) and 2001: A Space Odyssey imagery Showing the connections between ancient Stupa iconography and the "alignment" scenes of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The connection with Nichiren Daishonin's Great Mandala and the Monolith from A Space Odyssey. The death-rebith "Ultimate Trip" and buddhahood. Ending with the closing from the old film "H.G. Wells Things to Come"
ERROR Correction: The Agel book with the quote from Arthur Clarke appears in "The Making of 2001" by Agel. It was stated as in "The Lost Worlds of 2001" in error.
Music: Treadmill of Penitence by DCole A live Yardbird's instrumental break from "Happening Ten years Time Ago" Closing music from the soundtrack of "H.G. Well's "Things to Come."
Excerpt from a letter to the disciple Abutsubo from Nichiren Daishonin:
"Abutsu is composed of the five elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space. These five elements are also the five characters of the daimoku. Abutsu-bo is therefore the treasure tower itself, and the treasure tower is Abutsu-bo himself. No other knowledge is purposeful. It is the treasure tower adorned with the seven kinds of treasures— hearing the correct teaching, believing it, keeping the precepts, engaging in meditation, practicing assiduously, renouncing ones attachments, and reflecting on oneself. You may think you offered gifts to the treasure tower of the Thus Come One Many Treasures, but that is not so. You offered them to yourself. You, yourself, are a Thus Come One who is originally enlightened and endowed with the three bodies. You should chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with this conviction. Then the place where you chant daimoku will become the dwelling place of the treasure tower. The sutra reads, If there is any place where the Lotus Sutra is preached, then my treasure tower will come forth and appear in that spot."
---Nichiren Daishonin
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Home is Where the Star is (The Song)
Alternate title, "Your Gypsy Door"
Alternate title 2: It Takes that Many Cats to keep the Rats Away.
Written at the beach one day in the 1980's.
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Infinite Path (The Song) Version 1
Starting out as spontaneous lyrics from the 1980's that took some shape and had some recording addition of my instrumentation some years ago. It is referring to cosmic visionary experience and a timeline of the past, present and future. The 8th consciousness of Buddhism, bridging to the ninth consciousness.
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Number One Planet (The Song)
In the 1980's I decided it was fun to create spontaneous song lyrics after Sutra recitation, Buddhist activities and a little herbal assistance to loosen up the filter. My self and some friends would record a lot of spontaneous nonsense, on a $19.95 Cassette recorder. A lot of it was funny and some of it has deep psychological, philosophic and profound cosmic religious, implications emerging from out of nowhere. A lot of it is pretty goofy. I posted them on youtube and will started uploading here
Most of it is totally spontaneous and often comedic art, but not art for art sake, it's just what it is. It has lots of innuendos and obscure meaning.
I will probably post from my library.
I also have old home movies taken by my father in the early 1950's.
Some videos of live shows of The Yardbirds and related acts and humorous public domain imagery and my own imagery,
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Embryonic Sac (The Song)
Being Star of a Geek Show is all some will have left.
Another dip into the archives, searching for the holy grail.
Funny Esoterica
Use of Modified old Film Noir Public Domain film and spontaneous original Music
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Languages (The Song)
This catchy tune might be indicative of some other, forthcoming, archaic efforts recovered from a vast akashic repository, that have been unearthed and placed on display for those so inclined to dig deeper into ancient oddities.
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Critters and Rain March 2019
Some of the critters hanging around the house and the trees in March 2019 and some of the wonderful rain.
It was spontaneous so half of it was not on a tripod.
Nice to have Suburban Critters living in my suburban jungle
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Nagarjuna Ninjas the Mahayana (The Song)
Anavatapta, the Lake with no warmth, north of the Snowy Mountains, has cool, clear water that removes all sufferings. The lake is said to be inhabited by the dragon king.................enter the palace of the dragon king the way Nagarjuna did
. --Kaimoku Sho
Blizzard (World of Warcraft), borrowed the Naga stories and created the Nagas, former Highbourne Night Elves that had mutated and become, sinister, amphibian humanoids that dwell beneath the ocean. Theirs is an ancient and mystical culture, for ten thousand years ago they were Kaldorei, "Children of the Stars."
Video: contains imagery within World of Warcraft, Cataclysm, and some Softimage imagery of my own.
Music: All original, old tapes.
Nagarjuna, like a was said to have the power of invisibility. Alluding to the story of Nagarjuna going into the Naga Realm under the Sea where the legend tells of his receiving Mahayana Sutras, protected by the Nagas. The older story, was that Manjusri, taught the Nagas, the Lotus Sutra and they repaid the debt by protecting the Sutras for endless years.
Nagarjuna hearing this story, himself went into the Naga Realm under the sea and the King Naga gave him the Priceless Jewel--the Mahayana.
In the Lotus Sutra the King's Daughter attained Buddhahood, shocking all the original disciple of the Buddha.
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