Yo, Yo, Yo,...

Gautama Buddha emplea una metáfora sencilla para hablar del lugar de nuestro verdadero sujeto:

“El elefante que, llegado al borde del estanque, contempla en éste su propia imagen y luego sigue su camino sin inmutarse porque considera a aquella imagen como la imagen de otro elefante, es más sabio que el hombre, que ve su imagen reflejada en el estanque y exclama: “¡Ese soy yo!” Pues, nuestro verdadero yo está más allá de los lazos de la Maja.”

Maja es la caracterización del gran engaño que sufren todos los que consideran al mundo exterior, al mundo de los fenómenos, como la realidad. Conocerla significa destruir su apariencia y lograr con ello la posibilidad de pisar el camino del conocimiento de la verdadera naturaleza.

PD: la foto no es de un elefante...

Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin 19 Nocturnes

Charles Mingus - I'll Remember April

Tuvan Throat Singing

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Tuvan throat singing is one particular variant of overtone singing practiced by the Tuva people of southern Siberia.

The art of Tuvan throat singing is a style in which one or more pitches sound simultaneously over a fundamental pitch, producing a unique sound. The history of Tuvan throat singing reaches very far back. Many of the male herders can throat sing, but women are beginning to practice the technique as well. The popularity of throat singing among Tuvans seems to have arisen as a result of geographic location and culture. The open landscape of Tuva allows for the sounds to carry a great distance. Ethnomusicologists studying throat singing in these areas mark khoomei as an integral part in the ancient pastoral animism that is still practiced today. Often, singers will travel far into the countryside looking for the right river, or will go up to the steppes of the mountainside to create the proper environment for throat-singing.[1]

The animistic world view of this region identifies the spirituality of objects in nature, not just in their shape or location, but in their sound as well.[2] Thus, human mimicry of nature's sounds is seen as the root of throat singing. (An example is the Mongolian story of the waterfall above the Buyan Gol (Deer River), where mysterious harmonic sounds are said to have attracted deer to bask in the waters, and where it is said harmonic sounds were first revealed to people.)[citation needed] Indeed, the cultures in this part of Asia have developed many instruments and techniques to mimic the sounds of animals, wind, and water.[citation needed] While the cultures of this region share throat singing, their styles vary in breadth of development.

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Bill Withers

Josephine Baker - Dis-moi, Josephine

Zaz - Trop Sensible

Ted Lewis - You've Got that Thing (1929)

Stephane Wrembel - Bristo Fada

Leo Reisman plays Cole Porter - You Do Something To Me (1929)

Sidney Bechet - Si tu vois ma mère

Lucienne Boyer

Mon coeur est un violon (1945)

Parlez-Moi D'Amour (1930)

Portishead - Humming

From the 1997 concert in Roseland New York.

Closer
No hesitation
Give me
All that you have

And it's been so long, that I can't explain
And it's been so wrong
Right now, so wrong

Naked
My thoughts are creeping
Too late
The show has begun

And it's been so long, that I can't confess
And it's been so wrong
Right now, so wrong

Is it all as it seems
So unresolved, so unredeemed
If I remain, how will I know

And it's been so long, that I can't be sure
And it's been so wrong
Right now, so wrong

Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams - Puddin' head serenade

Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker - Song for Strayhorn

Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery - Watermelon Man

Paprika - Mandino Reinhardt (Swing OST)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tightrope

Caught up in a whirlwind can't catch my breath,
knee deep in hot water broke out in a cold sweat
Can't catch a turtle in this rat race,
feels like I'm losin' time at a breakneck pace

Afraid of my own shadow in the face of grace,
heart full of darkness spotlight on my face
There was love all around me but I was lookin' for revenge,
thank God it never found me would have been the end

I was walkin' the tightrope steppin' on my friends
Walkin' the tightrope it was a shame and a sin
Walkin' the tightrope between wrong and right
Walkin' the tightrope both day and night

Lookin' back in front of me in the mirror's a grin,
through eyes of love I see I'm really lookin' at a friend
We've all had our problems that's the way life is,
my heart goes out to others who are there to make amends

We've been walkin' the tightrope tryin' to make it right
Walkin' the tightrope every day and every night
Walkin' the tightrope bring it all around
Walkin' the tightrope from the lost to found

Walkin' the tightrope stretched around the world
Walkin' the tightrope save the boys and girls
Walkin' the tightrope let's make it right
Walkin' the tightrope do it do it tonight
Walkin' the tightrope

Silvio Rodriguez - Del Sueño a la Poseia

Un mundo de contrahechos
se esparce en la cartulina,
bordado con punta fina
como los pelos del pecho.
País en que los deshechos
son amados todavía
es la comarca sombría
donde la luz se perdona,
porque allí van las personas
del sueño a la poesía.

En un sofá diminuto
posa minúscula gente.
Unos sonríen al lente,
otros cuentan los minutos.
Bichejos de rostro enjuto
se asoman a celosías
y carroñeras arpías
prestan garras al retablo,
mientras hace redonda el diablo
del sueño a la poesía.

Un pavorreal se pasea
por un desván en penumbras
y a su paso, que deslumbra,
la oscuridad se voltea.
¿Qué transformó pluma en tea
de apariciones umbrías?
¿Qué pasión, qué melodía
tocó el corazón humano
para conducir la mano
del sueño a la poesía?

Manu Chao - Desaparecido

Me dicen el desagradecido
Pero esa no es la verdad
Yo llevo en el cuerpo un dolor
Que no me deja respirar
Llevo en el cuerpo una condena
Que siempre me echa a caminar
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?

Cuando me buscan nunca estoy
Cuando me encuentran yo no soy
El que está enfrente porque ya
Me fui corriendo más allá
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?
Cuando llegaré?

Horace Silver - The Kicker

Pandit Jasraj - Shree Krishna Anuraag

Shayan Darshan - Shri Krishna Lahari Stotra

Sayam Aarti Darshan - Gopala Niranjanam

The Datsuns - Stuck Here For Days

Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam

We must find the next whisky bar

Miles Davis & John Lee Hooker - Harry Sets Up Sutton (1990)

Oscar Peterson - Foggy Day

Nat King Cole - Nature Boy

T-Bone Walker - Blues For Marili