Category: music
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“One Word of Praise”
What if everything you’ve been told about spiritual progress is backwards? This song came from reading an ancient Buddhist text—the Lotus Sutra—that completely flips our understanding of how transformation happens. We’re taught that meaningful change requires years of effort, countless hours of practice, immense sacrifice. Grind long enough and maybe, just maybe, you’ll get somewhere.…
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The Fearless Vow Blues
The Fearless Vow Blues is a folk-blues retelling of Chapter 13 of the Lotus Sūtra, where Medicine King and countless Bodhisattvas step forward to promise the Buddha they will spread the Dharma fearlessly, even in an age of corruption and hostility. With acoustic guitar, harmonica, and gospel-tinged rhythms, the song walks through the vow, the…
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The Threefold Crown Blues
The Threefold Crown Blues is a soulful folk-blues track inspired by Nichiren’s teaching of the Three Virtues — Sovereign, Teacher, and Parent. The song weaves together raw acoustic blues with gospel-style call-and-response, capturing the struggle of human authority and the wholeness found only in the Buddha’s integrated wisdom, compassion, and protective vow. With slide guitar,…
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The Bow That Sees
The Bow That Sees is a bluesy folk anthem inspired by the Lotus Sūtra’s teaching of non-contempt. With gritty guitar, mournful harmonica, and gospel warmth, it tells the story of bowing in reverence—even when the world throws stones. This song carries the spirit of Bodhisattva Never Disrespectful: humility in the face of pride, compassion in…
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The Quiet Gap Blues
The Quiet Gap Blues is a slow-burning, porch-born folk-blues meditation on patience, presence, and the subtle work of transformation. Over finger-picked guitar and a harmonica’s gentle cry, William sings of that moment between impulse and wisdom—the breath before the word, the silence before the song. It’s a hymn to building one’s inner tower stone by…
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Bodhi Tree Blues
Bodhi Tree Blues is a slow-shuffle folk-blues hymn born from the Lotus Sūtra’s Chapter 17 promise of immediate awakening. A warm finger-picked guitar and mournful harmonica set the groove, while a gospel-style choir lifts the chorus like a sunrise. The song celebrates the truth that every breath and every step are sacred—each of us already…
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Walk On Easy
Walk On Easy is a warm, blues-folk song about traveling light in a world that’s all connected. Inspired by the Lotus Sūtra’s teaching of peaceful conduct, it tells a simple story: no gate to guard, no crown to wear—just one wide river of life where everyone belongs. With finger-picked guitar, gentle harmonica, and a slow…
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Six Seals on the Road
“Six Seals on the Road” is a soulful, acoustic folk-blues track that translates profound spiritual doctrine into a universal song of life’s journey. Inspired by the ultimate guidance for practitioners in Chapter 28 of the Lotus Sūtra, this song recasts the ancient Sixfold Praxis—to copy, keep, read, recite, memorize, and act according to the Sūtra—as…
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The Unhidden Light
“The Unhidden Light” is a soulful acoustic Folk-Blues track inspired by the profound promise at the heart of the Lotus Sūtra: the Buddha’s universal vow to lead every living being to the same enlightenment he attained. Set to a warm, rhythmic arrangement, this song serves as a powerful reminder that the ultimate truth is an…
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From the Deep and Fertile Ground
Inspired by the profound teachings of the Lotus Sutra and the enduring vow of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, “From the Deep and Fertile Ground” is a grounded, bluesy folk song that moves from spiritual insight to personal transformation. The song is a deconstruction of what “supernatural power” means, revealing it not as an arbitrary…
Mr. Altig’s Overview of the Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus Sutra 