Tag: mindful music
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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…
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Faith Alone
A raw, heartfelt fusion of folk-blues soul and modern trap rhythm. Faith Alone tells the story of a weary seeker who learns that belief itself — simple, steady, and human — is enough to carry us home. Fingerpicked acoustic guitar and slide licks meet 808s, brushed snares, and gospel harmonies. The result is a prayer…
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Cool and Refreshed
“Cool and Refreshed” – A Spiritual Blues-Gospel Duet A powerful testimony of transformation told through male and female voices. “Cool and Refreshed” weaves Buddhist wisdom into the American blues-gospel tradition, exploring the journey from spiritual burden to liberation. Walking heavy with the weight of the past, two souls discover that their true nature is pure—not…
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Faith Call, Insight Answers
“Faith Calls, Insight Answers” is a Delta Dharma Blues song about the inner dialogue between faith and understanding — a call-and-response between the heart that believes and the mind that sees. Carried by slide guitar, handclaps, and a voice worn smooth by the road, this track brings the Eightfold Path down to earth. It’s not…
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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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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…
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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…
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New Song: Unfolding Wisdom’s Blues
by The William Altig Choir (Verse 1) Woke up this mornin’, sun a-burnin’ gold Opened the Lotus Sutra, a story ages old Some folks say it’s too deep, too hard to understand Like a hidden treasure, buried deep within the land Oh, they say it’ll bring confusion, darkness to your mind That ain’t the Buddha’s purpose, no, that’s not the path…
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Relational Rhythm
A contemplative folk‑blues piece that turns cosmic physics into a back‑porch hymn. Relational Rhythm (Gravity’s Song) is a cosmic folk‑blues single by The William Altig Choir, blending finger‑picked acoustic guitar, slide‑guitar “spacetime bends,” and warm, soulful vocals. Inspired by Einstein’s curved spacetime and Buddhist insights into inter‑being, the track turns gravity into a groove that binds every heartbeat,…
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The Debt of Peace
“The Debt of Peace” is a raw, slow-burning Delta blues song that captures the emotional weight of everyday suffering and the quiet hope for human connection. With trembling finger-picked guitar, a sparse upright bass, and a weeping harmonica, this track tells the truth gently but unflinchingly. The lyrics explore the burden we all carry—the debt…
Mr. Altig’s Overview of the Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus Sutra 