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NamaBonsai Reconnection Mode

Hello,

Its been a minute since we have been able to get online and blog. Since things happen fast and karma, timing and purpose are all factors, today is blog catch up day….

 

Since arriving in the west coast north west, we have been meeting up to ten to fifteen people a day, we have been looking at about five to ten places a day. Everyone we have met has been amazing, many share yoga, music, tea, and practice.

I am going to attempt to unfold some of what we have in brought into view by using the comment section to expand this blog entry, organizing and positioning important information.

Because there is so much to say and share, it helps to use the comment sections, breaking things down one aspect at a time…..

If you have shared yoga, music, tea and your energy these past few weeks, we are truly grateful and happy to keep the energy alive!

 

Bless

NamaBonsai

NamaRadio Online Starting Up…

Head Roc

Also look for tracks off the Truth-Key in Artistry Commentary, Rough Jazz by DJ ESP, OMID, JMD and friends….

You can find the NamaMusic BlogRadio at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Namaradio

Make sure to contact the label to guest on future shows or to call in and talk about topics, tracks and movements!

Fiber art seen here is used for album covers by Namasteezy Records

Namaspirit Loves Pottery! You didn’t know?

We’d like to introduce this Pottery Blog by Emily Murphy.

She put together somethings for everyone that we thought was very selfless, thank you Emily!

Emily writes, “Resources for Soda Firing -
I thought that it would be fun to try to round up as many online resources for folks who are interested in soda firing and put it together into one handy post. Since there isn’t that much publish (relatively speaking), I think it has the possibility of being relatively comprehensive. I hope you enjoy reading the results of my research as much as I did!”

Stop through her blog and share the research! We were truly inspired by her organization and it motivated us here at the interdependent Music Distro Community to do the same for our projects and all the artist info that includes!

http://potteryblog.com/2008/08/resources-for-soda-firing.html

Introducing Infinity Project

Stop through yourtube and open up some communication channels so we can share some truly uplifting sounds, collective projects and leads on empty swimming pools we can session this winter!

America’s Secret War With Iran

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Nawang Khechog – Namaspirit in Sounds Of Tibet

Namaspirit has a flute project coming up, so we thought we would look out into the world to see who has the wind. Ofcourse it would be someone from Tibet! So we took it as a sign, that when we first looked, we saw Nawang. And so our project moves forward, will you join us? We seek to share the joy which comes from Wind Instruments, and from the previous efforts of those who keep this way of sound alive. can you imagine the flute moving so many minds? Pray our efforts reach your hearts as well, and those who need the healing most! For now, lets just look at where the flute has been. Then we can know where to take it.

Nawang Khechog is a Grammy nominee and one of Tibet’s formost world music composer and musician. He is also one of the first Tibetan musicians to be able to break into international world music scene with his original and authentic musical compositions (solo and collaborative albums) to be distributed around the world through different record label. In 2007 Nawang received Tibetan Music Award ( Special Recognition , similar to Life Time Achievement Award) and International Civil Golden Award , The highest civilian award of Nepal. Nawang was a monk for 11 years and studied Buddhist philosophy and meditation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and many other Tibetan masters. He also lived as hermit, meditating in the Himalayan foothills for several years under the guidance of His Holiness. When Nawang was hermit meditator in Himalaya

At Sedona Cultural Park October 2001 Photo by Gerard Hutton He aims to utilize music as a means to inspire non-violence, compassion and spirituality and for the freedom of Tibetan people. In the last few years, there has been some signs of interest from PRC governement for the future of Tibet by inviting the delegations of HH Dalai Lama and Tibetan Government in Exile in Tibet and China. “I hope”, says Nawang, “this is a genuine sign of PRC government’s interest in resolving the tragedy and suffering of Tibet. It is hard to trust but it will reveal its true face by year 2010. If this is genuine, negotiation and dialog is best for both sides interests.” Nawang has produced five albums by himself and co- produced two albums with Kitaro and Peter Kater-’Karuna’; a solo album, and ‘The Dance of Innocents ‘ with Peter Kater on piano, ‘ Wind of Devotion’ with R. Carlos Nakai (the most prominent Native American Flutist) ‘ In a Distant place ‘ with R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton (one of the world’s great designer and builders of unique guitars ) Will Clipman (a leading percussionist). This album , they not only recieved the Grammy nomination but they also got three prestigious nominations from the ‘Nammy Awards’ (the Native American music awards) ‘the Record of the Year’,’ the Best Instrumental Recording ‘ and ‘the Best Duo or Group of the Year ‘.

Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg, Laurie Anderson and Nawang. He also wrote and performed the music for the New York play, ‘Road Home’ directed by award winning director, Lawrence Sacharow and played by Martin Luther King Jr’s daughter, Yolanda King, and other actors. (This is a multimedia play, filmed by Academy Award Winner Barbara Kopple and written by Academy Award Winner James Lecesne). He has played on Kitaro’s Grammy nominated albums ‘Mandala’ and ‘Enchanted Evening’ and toured with him extensively in the US, Japan, Canada, Brazil and South East Asian countries. Tour with Kitaro and Band Nawang has performed at Carnegie Hall, Universal Amphitheater, Radio City Music Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, The Pentagon, World Peace Festivals, numerous schools, Art Galleries and RFK Stadium, just to mention a few.

Nawang with Edie Brickell, Paul Simon and Natalie Merchant.

He has collaborated with Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Kitaro, Trey Anastasio [Phish], Ustad Sultan Khan, Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, David Bowie, Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (nephew of the famous Qawalli singer), Natalie Merchant, Peter Kater, R. Carlos Nakai, Paul Winter, Allen Ginsberg, Patty Smith, Steve Gorn, and performed in the same concerts with U2, Pearl Jam, Taj Mahal, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper, R.E.M., Alanis Morissette, Bjork, Sonic Youth, Billy Corgan, Moby, Dave Matthews, Herbie Hancock, Tracy Chapman, KRS-1, Sean Lennon and A Tribe Called Quest.

Nawang with Nobel Peace Laureate Jose Ramos Horta He has also performed many times at the prestigious yearly concerts of Tibet House, New York, benefit & Tibetan Freedom Concerts. Nawang also supports and participated many times with Peacejam Programs, an organization with twelve Nobel Peace Laureates on their Board of Advisors dedicated to youth education and greater human values. Nawang’s music has been used in various documentaries, most recently for part of the sound track of Hollywood’s major motion picture ‘Seven Years in Tibet,’ directed by Jean Jacques Annaud and starring Brad Pitt. He also worked as a Tibetan Assistant Director and played six different acting rolls for the film. Nawang as Assistant Director on the set of Seven Years in Tibet     He has also worked at a wide range of causes and organizations, ranging from Schools, Prisons, Buddhist Centres, Interfaith Services to the numerous benefit concerts for AIDS, Environment, Peace, and many Tibet support groups, as welI as the US Tibetan Re-settlement Projects.

Nawang was born into a nomadic family in Eastern Tibet, on a high mountain plateau, where trees can not grow and the wind whispers through the grasslands. He learned about life’s lessons and survival at an early age. When he was only three years old, a yogi meditator convinced his father that it would be devastating for their family to remain in Tibet, so they fled the land. the family travelled thousands of miles to India on the backs of yaks. Following a treacherous three year journey, the yogi’s prediction came true in 1959, when China took over Tibet. Nawang’s family still suffered – most of his family, including his two younger sisters perished in the hot climate of India.

In 1981, Nawang met Leslie Christianson, they married and had two beautiful children, Sangye (son) and Tenzin (daughter). Now, they are grown up as two bright and beautiful children. While they were together in Australia, they helped to establish and became founding board members of Australia Tibet Council (ATC) with other Tibetans and Australians who were dedicated to help the situation in Tibet. Meanwhile Leslie became the first founding National Director for ATC and worked hard and effectively to make the ATC the most powerful Tibet support group in Australia. Nawang toured throughout Australia performing and educating Australians for the Tibetan cause and suffering. He also twice presented the first and second ‘Five Point Peace Plan’ for Tibet by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawk. After eight years of thier marriage,they seperated in 1989 but now both are re-married since 1997.Nawang’s spiritual friend and his wife Tsering Youdon has finally able to immigrate and join him in USA, after three years of immigration waiting period.

In 1991, he was invited by Tibet House, New York and the co-founder and actor Richard Gere, for a North American tour. Nawang toured numerous cities by giving concerts and speaking out about the situation in Tibet to audiences, radio stations and newspaper journalists during the ‘International Year of Tibet’ Celebration.          (Archbishop Desmond Tutu photo byPeacejam Foundation)      In 1992, Nawang opened the Earth Summit Precom meeting at the UN General Assembly Hall. He also performed for many openings for the public address by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

(longhorn photo by James McCrea) Nawang is a self taught musician. His music springs out of his feeling and life experience as a world traveling, Tibetan nomad. He plays a veritable United Nations of native instruments – including Tibetan long horn, South American Mayan Ocarinas, Australian Aboriginal Didgeridoo, and Tibetan and Native American flutes – as well as more familiar African drums, and other cymbals and bells. He also performs the ethereal and other-worldly sound of Tibetan, Mongolian and Tuvan overtone Chanting and the Universal Horn. This is Nawang’s newly invented instrument, a combination of Tibetan long horn, Aboriginal Didgeridoo and American Trombone. Tibetan multi-instrumentalist, Nawang brings the beauty of his and other countries’ ancient ritual sounds to a modern audience with original compositions created with an ear towards uniting old and new in an all-encompassing whole.

Tibetan Freedom Concert Tibetan Freedom Concert   Nawang Khechog, R. Carlos Nakai, Will Clipman and William Eaton at Grammy Awards Nawang Khechog and his wife Tsering Youdon at Grammy Awards. This was Tsering’s first week in U.S. Having spent more than thirty years in India as a Tibetan refugee, Nawang now seeks strength and tranquility in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Living in a town, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, he looks to the splendor of nature as a continual source of inspiration. Nawang’s experiences shape and permeate his music. Nawang’s Flute Up above the thunderclouds and beyond the wildflowers, up where the air is thin, Nawang sat silently in a cave for seven years occasionally playing his flute at sunset. Before the notes evaporated and were transformed into an evening mist, they were heard by the mountain goats, which stopped chewing and turned their heads to listen because the god-like melodies filled them with wonderment and made them want to dance. Joan Baez (A poem I wrote shortly after hearing Nawang play his flutes at a dinner for the Dalai Lama 6/6/91)

 

 
 

Brand Nubian – Wake Up

How can you stop? Or stop, when it comes to hip hop, its too deep. The live show may not have invited those all important fists into the air, cuz it was hard to hear and unless you heard it before you might not have known the message about the core. When is the last time you have seen and heard a cry for unity? Blitz? HOW LONG AGO WAS IT? has it been forgotten, lost, hidden? I was black in my past lives, should I not relate to this because of skin color? I think not. If you can’t see GOD in all, you can’t see GOD at all. So like we keep saying, “Wait No More”.

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Brand Nubian – All For One @ Knitting Factory, NY

So much time has passed, its time to relase time and get things done, move beyond past, present and future and let all the projects serve us. And thats about working interdependently; so many people haven’t heard the old stuff, the new stuff, and we can’t stop creating it. I think respect is due when it comes to all time classics, but what are those? I think they are the songs that have a higher purpose, the most uplifting and meaningful to all. If you heard the old, then check out the new. If you heard the new check out the old, get involved. Do you think this video motivates people to do that? Some but not all. To some degree its all karmic, its a matter of the awareness being within you. I find joy in watching this because I like to see people happen fully and truly. I want to see team efforts and collective uplifting activity. This song and these guys may have had a moment when they uplifted hip hop and its creative direction more than anyone ever has, when this album and this song they performed came out. Thats why we selected Grand Puba for the WAIT NO MORE REMIX PROJECT. Now that you heard a little of where it all came from, you might enjoy some of the hard to find. Get at us!

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Introducing Fiber mastery by Cheryl Kolander

Silk Workers Notebook by Cheryl Kolander

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars

This lady is a buddha. Her work serves future generations of children.

She is not one who wishes to remain in samsara. Excellent though the king may be, he accumulates negativity in this world of existence. Although the minister may be excellent, they are like messengers of hell. Although there are many members in the retinue, they are like an assembly of maras. Although one’s endowments may be abundant, they remble the objects of the hungry ghost’s craving, which can never be sated. She has no time to be a queen to materialistic America while traveling on the path of dharma.

Spiritual Activism is part of her efforts to unify against the forces that divide and confuse the people. She has been bridging subcultures and spiritual community, to bring you quality 100% silk fabrics. Please visit her blog at www.truefibers.net.

Try on healthy “Good 4 U” clothes (see pics at bottom of this page): now on display at the weekly

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Here are some pictures of Cheryl, hard at work to please you.

 

 

Shibori done by workshop participant Debra Ruffin of Hawaii
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After the event book reviewed on Goodreads

After The Event by Brown, Christopher A.

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars

After The Event by Brown is an amazing journey into the Nonmind of the native americans. So far it has been filled with twisting “nonthinking”, something for the tribal and the yogis for sure.

One must step out of the mind and into the heart to start to dance with this book. Herbert Marshall McLuhan would have been able to do it easily. Now Chris, always the man of the moment, perhaps Mr. Brown will also be remembered for the truthful statement made in the 1960’s that “the medium is the message.” This book helps us to truly and fully know why, and once that is clear, you can enjoy the next step, which is to see what is happening “After the event”.

When we view the generations before us, and their building of America, we see that “getting there,” was all the fun. What’s left is the cultural and artistic ashes of that endeavor. We want to build the new continent, alive from within, never forgetting that all conclusions are provisional, and as such are only working models.

In the book, Chris take on the truth about corporate deceit and its impact on consciousness via topics of sex. He says, “What is illustrated is that the greater need of human existence IS the securing of the well being of the next generation IF the dependence of it upon our actions is invoked through awareness of the threat against it and a focus on parental love instead of sex.”

Is he on the edge of taboo? What do the ancient Gurus have to say about sex? Meher Baba says, “SEX is decidedly one of the most important problems with which the human mind is confronted in the domain of duality. It is one of the “givens” in the make-up of human nature with which one has to deal. Like everything else in human life, sex comes to be considered through the opposites which are the necessary creations of the limited mind. Just as the mind tries to fit life into a scheme of alternatives such as joy or pain, good or bad, solitude or company, attraction or repulsion, so in relation to sex it tends to think of indulgence and repression as alternatives from which there is no escape. It seems as if man must accept the one alternative or the other. Yet he cannot whole-heartedly accept either, for when he tries repression he is dissatisfied with his lot and longingly thinks of indulgence. When he tries indulgence he becomes conscious of his bondage to the senses and seeks freedom by going back to mechanical repression. The mind remains dissatisfied with both alternatives and there thus arises one of the most vital and complicated problems of human life.” Meher Baba has it so right on, but back when that was given to humanity, corporations were not running amok into our lives at the rate they are dividing families and destroying the fabric of our unity in these days of the “quickening”.

Chris is a yogi in modern times, and all yogis take on difficult truths while doing their inner work. The Arising of the problem of sex, in the Chris experience is the start of a right view into our modern day situation. And he has the spirits of Meher on his left and Herbert on his right, and the native americans behind him.

This book is a must read, and just like all the good stuff, you will not find it in a yoga studio. This one is the one you wanna get, if you are ready for why renunciation of craving made possible through awakening.

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