Sound clearing, rays of light

MOUNTAIN

2011-04-20T22:13:00.000-07:00

mountain by GERARDO MAZA

UN TIGRE DEL MONTE
Animal nature, animal as nature, human being as animal, human being as nature. Animals only take what is needed, the rest they leave alone thus the sacred balance of life is maintained. Let us honor, learn from and respect the way of nature and of harmony, it is inherent within us and we must only turn on our inner ears and listen to it's song.

LIGHT

2011-04-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

Light by GERARDO MAZA -
Rea Fox lead vocal - Matt Moore tenor sax - Mariah G williams, Iya Motskobili, Jeremy Soares backing vocals - Gerardo Maza keyboards, guitar, bass, drums/percussion

Light is one of the words used for the divine or the experience of the divine. This song is about the light that could also be called love or God or nature. It is what I have experienced in myself and in those that I know and I am of the belief that it is in all of us. This Light refers to something that is also bigger than all of us just as it is within us all as well.

Far from putting ourselves down for our own failings and shortcomings it calls for us to learn how to forgive ourselves and others and to truly be able to accept things and people as they are in order to really change and evolve as human beings.

Our challenge as human beings is in learning how to live together in harmony and peace.

So with the diversity of belief's and cultures that exist we must be careful to respect and honor those differences between us and learn how to support each others integrity and ways of life. This would also mean supporting the fundamental goodness and wholeness that is the essence of who we are.

It is easy to become fearful of what we don't know and of those who are different than ourselves but this fear is quite harmful in that it creates the illusion that we are somehow different when in truth and in essence we are the same.

In relationships we often feel the closeness and also the distance and separation.

Shared goals and maybe underlying differences as well about what is truly most important to us.
What is the most important thing ?

When we experience the beauty in each other, we see that which is divine in the mirror of the other, however when we try to hold on to that, to own it or to control it we lose the divinity that was there. It is our fear that we get instead.

Hungry for power because of the fear of not having enough, of not being good enough or the fear of losing everything that we imagine to be so real. Sometimes it is also a fear of not being listened too, not being seen of not feeling like we matter or are loved or lovable.

I would say that true love has no name,
may we always be true to it.
May it always be so
and
so it is.

Go drink tea

2010-11-23T22:16:00.000-08:00

A perception painted,
presence your attention.
Paved in struggle,
trudging night blindness,
sleepless morning light.
Refining the gold.
Dancing our making,
creating a space,
collective control,
Seeking a meaning,
becoming a mantra,
grip in hold.
prison the moment,
result in mind,
the river flow.
so to unknown.
Influence refined,
hold dear life,
let it go.
Love, a question.
Drink tea, go.

Music and Meditation part 1

2010-11-18T07:28:00.000-08:00

Spiritual practice and creative expression go hand in hand.
In the last thirty years of creating music I have also been seriously involved in a number of meditative disciplines. These include years of practice in Zen, Sufism, shamanism and Taoism.
Influenced by Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, American Indian, Turkish, African, Indian, Tibetan, Latin American and European cultures.

The music coming through me is a creative expression of the inner transformations of spiritual practice and over time the line between the two has become blurred and I am more and more aware that creativity and meditation are vibrating on the same wavelength. However this is not always the case and will depend on the intention and state of the individual involved in the experience.

On the same note I would also include the appreciation of the arts as a pathway into meditation and the way of beauty. This appreciation could extend to all of manifest creation and beyond to the place from which all things come. The cloud of unknowing.
This sense of appreciation is an aspect of the force we call love and is ultimately what inspires us to aspire to love in an expression of Love.