Tag: meditative blues

• 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

  12/8 blues, Acoustic Guitar, awakening song, Blues Folk, Bodhi Tree, Bodhi Tree Blues, buddhist blues, Chapter 17, contemplative music, Dharmakaya, Ekāyana, Folk Blues, gospel choir, Harmonica, Immediate Enlightenment, Inherent Buddhahood, Lotus Sutra, maitreya ajita, meditative blues, Nonduality, One Vehicle, porch session, singer songwriter, slow shuffle, spiritual folk, Texas folk blues, William Altig Choir

• Joyful Display Blues

  

  Joyful Display Blues is a slow-burning, midnight-porch blues-folk song that turns ancient Lotus Sūtra insight into raw, human sound. Finger-picked guitar and a low harmonica drone carry lyrics about bodhisattvas rising from the earth, the Buddha’s cosmic display of light, and the vow to transform anger, isolation, and attachment into courage, compassion, and wisdom. Lantern-warm…

  William Altig

  September 28, 2025

  Chapter 21, music, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

  acoustic blues, americana roots, Blues Folk, bodhisattva blues, buddhist blues, Cosmic Blues, Deep Listening, fingerpicked guitar, Lotus Sutra, meditative blues, mindful music, mystical folk, Nichiren inspiration, porch blues, slow blues groove, soulful harmonica, spiritual awakening, spiritual blues, transformation song, vow and joy

• 🪷 Muddy Waters, Silent Mind — A Song, A Sutra, A Stillness

  

  This song came to me in the quiet of morning practice, while reading Nichiren’s treatise Shishin Gohon-Shō. He writes: “Muddy water has no mind but it still catches the moon’s reflection and naturally becomes lucid. Plants and trees catch the rain in order to blossom, but can we say they do this deliberately?” That line…

  William Altig

  April 12, 2025

  music

  acoustic blues, Blues Folk, meditative blues, melodic folk, mindful music, moon reflection, muddy waters, nature wisdom, nature-inspired song, Nichiren-inspired, Poetic Lyrics, reflective blues, silent mind, soulful male vocals, spiritual folk