Tag: awakening song

• Lotus Sutra Inspired: Awaken the Hero Within You

  

  “Welling Up from the Ground” is a powerful gospel-blues folk anthem inspired by Chapter Fifteen of the Lotus Sutra—the moment when the earth itself trembles, and countless Bodhisattvas rise from the soil of suffering to bring light to the age of darkness. The song blends sacred soul with modern storytelling, featuring rich harmonies, Hammond organ…

  William Altig

  October 28, 2025

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• Discover ‘The King of All Songs’: Healing Through Music

  

  By The William Altig Choir “The King of All Songs” by The William Altig Choir is a soulful, slow-burning folk-blues hymn inspired by Chapter 23 of the Lotus Sutra. A preacher’s whisper meets the river’s hum — it’s a song about awakening, mercy, and the healing power of truth. Over warm acoustic guitar and haunting…

  William Altig

  October 27, 2025

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• Cell Block Chant

  

  A blues anthem for anyone who’s ever felt broken beyond repair. This song tells the story of Maya Chen—a disbarred lawyer serving time for embezzlement—and Rosa, the older woman who taught her a simple Buddhist chant in their shared cell block. What starts as desperate skepticism becomes a practice of transformation: Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Through gritty fingerpicked…

  William Altig

  October 12, 2025

  music, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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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…

  William Altig

  October 2, 2025

  Chapter 17, music, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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• The One Great White Ox Cart Blues

  

  The One Great White Ox Cart Blues is a slow-burning folk-blues meditation on finding the sacred in everyday life. Driven by a mournful acoustic guitar in A minor and a steady, heartbeat bass, the song draws on the Lotus Sutra’s parable of the Great White Ox Cart to reveal a timeless truth: there is no…

  William Altig

  September 22, 2025

  Chapter 3, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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• Flowers for the Truth

  

  Flowers for the Truth is a hauntingly beautiful duet where two voices meet on an empty city street, offering radiant, glowing flowers to something greater than themselves. This folk-blues ballad weaves the sacred and the ordinary into a single moment of grace. With a painterly sound and mystical undertones, it evokes the hush of twilight,…

  William Altig

  April 11, 2025

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