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  • Tim Booth & Angelo Badalamenti – Dance Of The Bad Angels

    Tim Booth & Angelo Badalamenti – Dance Of The Bad Angels

    A sensual, warm song develops into a majestic chant of shattering lyrical intensity. It’s always hard to write words about such amazing creations. Whatever I’d write would pale in comparison to the blinding divine poetry that is about to unfold. So I’m going to let the music be the stair and the lyrics the guiding light. Now close your eyes, sharpen your hearing and feel where it all leads to.

    “What a journey
    So hard to describe
    Your harbour so small
    The ocean so wide
    Spin the wheel, spin the wheel
    Go wherever she spins
    Surrender to this wave that’s rolling in

    Homing fingers
    Starting to dig
    Raising expectations
    Lifting the lid
    There’s a show going down
    Going deeper within
    I long to lose myself
    Inside your skin

    What a feeling under the stars
    My body’s rotating from Venus through Mars
    There’s a war going on
    Between my head and my heart
    I wonder how they grew so far apart

    I’m so shaken, about to explode
    The myth of kissing princes
    Is they turn into toads
    There’s a war going on
    Between the sun and the moon
    Before they come to terms
    We’ll be consumed

    Oh my god, please take me now
    I’m ready for ascension
    If I only knew how
    Give me wings give me wings
    Now I’m stuck on the ground
    Recieve this blood and bones
    I’m homeward bound

    See the statue growing wings
    This singer was a virgin
    Until he conceived
    God is love, god is love
    And her lover I’ll be
    I long to leave the world in ecstasy

    Dance with me around this fire
    The dance of bad angels who’d love to fly higher
    God is love, god is love
    And her lover I’ll be
    I long to leave the world in ecstasy”

    YouTube (decent quality):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdwyKwzESo^

    For Spotify Users (high quality):

    https://open.spotify.com/track/5JN2wPutS5Z9i0OOhnHCnO^

    For Deezer Users (high quality):

    http://www.deezer.com/track/2193761^

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  • Is Yoga Really an Entry Drug to Buddhism?

    Is Yoga Really an Entry Drug to Buddhism?

    Among the strangest things I’ve read lately is how a group of (Christian) parents prevented yoga exercises from being taught at a Swedish school. Among others, the motivation was that the exercises might tamper with their children’s religious beliefs:

    http://www.thelocal.se/20160427/swedish-parents-block-gateway-yoga-exercises^

    Fairness champion Sweden interdicts religious interference in schools. However, yoga is tied to Buddhism the same way fasting is tied to Christianity or Islam (not at all). Yoga and fasting are disciplines that test the body and mind. Both practices have been proven time and again to be beneficial. And while fasting requires a careful understanding of one’s biorhythms, yoga is a readily available for improving one’s body, balance, physical and mental discipline.

    One parent is quoted as saying: “Yoga is used by Buddhists as a form of meditation. We don’t know what it might lead to.” Maybe the person could be informed that it could lead to less violence^. How can anybody have a problem with meditation? Meditation is inherently non-religious and Buddhism itself is not a religion. It could perhaps be considered a religion of no religion. It’s scientific spirituality and encourages experimentation and a personal understanding of spiritual matters.

    It’s sad that people aren’t well educated at all when it comes to other cultures. Maybe it’s natural to fear what you don’t know, but these things are actually quite easy to get to know and understand. But then again, the educational system that is used in constructing the foundations of our society has serious issues.

    How can we expect to live in a healthy society when most children are put through a schooling system that encourages obedience, conformity and competition? There are no lessons in school about empathy and compassion.

    Children are discouraged from challenging the authority of their parents and their leaders. They’re treated as second the class citizens of an adult family so it’s no surprise one of the first things they do in life is to discriminate between themselves and others. In the same time, they’re conditioned to think that being a leader is something reserved to an entirely different class of people.

    Nature vs Culture
    Nature vs Culture

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