Buddhist Chants

Ladakh mountains - 2019

In the last 5 yrs, I developed a strange affinity towards Buddhist Chants. Around the same time or maybe a few years before that I was drawn to Buddhism as a religion. It sort of fitted the concept of religion - it’s very logical in its explanations. Also led very strongly by psychology - for example mindfulness has become a whole new thing and there are lots of studies on how meditation, mindfulness helps to calm you down.

In Gayatri mantra or other sanskrit shlokas I have heard & I haven’t heard many - there is a meaning to whatever is being sung, recited. So you actually are listening to words and music is only on the periphery. 

But the buddhist chants, tibetan music - it evokes a very different feeling, the music, chiming bells and the way chanting or the words are spoken makes me feel calm. It has become one of my go to playlist whenever I am feeling stressed or a bit off sync. One of the visual memories which it triggers is of Ladakh. The snow peak mountains filled with mist and large rock cut images of Budha and the monasteries and prayer flags. 

Postscript: I stumbled on this blog & love this creation. 

Poetry and ceramic pots. http://blogs.newarka.edu/nawam/2022/06/07/poetry-ceramic-pots-by-julia-polen-24/