Tag: reflective blues

• Muddy Waters, Silent Mind

  

  “Muddy Waters, Silent Mind” is a reflective blues folk song that draws inspiration from Nichiren’s Shishin Gohon-Shō, where he speaks of muddy water catching the moon’s reflection and trees receiving rain without deliberation. With soulful male vocals and a melodic, earthy arrangement, this song explores the quiet wisdom found in nature’s flow—no striving, no resistance,…

  William Altig

  April 17, 2025

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  acceptance, acoustic blues, Acoustic Guitar, Blues Folk, Buddhist inspiration, Contemplative blues, folk storytelling, letting go, meditative music, Mindfulness, moon reflection, muddy water metaphor, nature wisdom, nature-inspired song, Nichiren Buddhism, peaceful songs, Poetic Lyrics, reflective blues, serene music, Shishin Gohon-Shō, silent mind, soulful male vocals, spiritual folk

• 🪷 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