Tag: dharma songs

• The William Altig Choir: Blues Meets Buddhist Wisdom

  

  “Just to Cater to Your Whim” – The William Altig Choir Sometimes love looks like giving in. Sometimes compassion means meeting someone where they are, even when you know the path they’re walking won’t heal them. This song is about that impossible tightrope – when your heart can’t bear to see someone suffer, so you…

  William Altig

  November 10, 2025

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• The Buddha’s Eyes Blues

  

  Buddha’s Eyes Blues is a slow-rolling, rootsy folk-blues meditation on the heart of Chapter Ten of the Lotus Sūtra. With warm finger-picked guitar, mournful slide, and harmonica sighs, it honors the sutra’s call to make offerings of devotion and daily action. Each verse carries the listener down a dusty road of incense smoke and open…

  William Altig

  September 25, 2025

  Chapter 10, music, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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