Satya Robyn leads a choir through five different Nembutsu chants at a temple's 5th anniversary celebration. The group learns and sings New Street Nembutsu, Seishi, Kuan Yin, an Ippon-inspired chant, and a Tibetan-style Om Amideva, with teaching and improvisation woven throughout.
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There we are, no one noticed. Okay, you've got 5 minutes to sing now. Oh, okay, well that's nice to see you back in the choir. Wow. Mike, just move a little closer to Ian, please. Sure. Just because otherwise I won't see you very well, you kind of step away.
Important tape measure.
Important tape measuring business. Okay, so this is the 5th anniversary of the temple, so 5 years 5 nembutsus. So we've got 5 nembutsus. The first nembutsu is called New Street nembutsu because I wrote it on New Street Station. I have to spend a long time on New Street Station now because we've moved to Birmingham and there's a train strike and there's a leaf fall timetable, so I'm spending a great amount of time on New Street Station. But what I noticed after a bit, at first it was horrible. I thought, I can't bear this, I cannot bear to be in this space for such long periods of time. It's so noisy, it's so smelly, it's so dark. But then I noticed that the trains were playing a drone, and it was a consistent drone. And then I started to chant. And this Nembutsu is the result of me chanting with the trains. And now I do it every time I go to Nembutsu Station.
So, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Let's have a look, that's in tens. What should I do? 7, 8, 9.
7, 8, 9. Nama Dabu, Nama Dabu. Namandabu. Namandabu. Namandabu. Namandabu. Namandabu. Namo Tabu. Namo Tabu. Namo Tabu. Namo. Namo Dambu! Nama Dambu! Namah Dambhu! Namandabhu! Namandabhu! Namandavahu! Namandabhu! Namah dalu namandahu— Namadalu namanthaloo! Nama lamdaluu na ma daaamum? Namah Dalu! Namah Dalu! Namah Dalu! Namah Dalu! Namah Damu! Namah Domu!
Nama—
Namah Damu Namana Dabhu! Nama Da Bu Na Ma Ta Boo! Nah Mah Dah Huh Nah Maa Tah Moo! "Na ma da huw na maaa ta boo!" Namah Dabhu! Namah Dabhu! Namah Dabhu! Nandana Buu! Nandana Buu! Namaha— Namandabu. Namandabu. Namandabu. Namandabu.
Lovely, thank you very much. Take a little swig of my water.
—circle before we continue. It feels like—
oh yes, no, absolutely, sorry. We're basically sort of half choir, half non-choir, so the lines blur. Yeah, it's slightly blurred. Okay, but Shalini, you've been in— you're in the choir for a long time, so you're kind of half choir anyway. I think you're fully choir. Well, I don't know, I haven't done any practice. No, don't worry, it's fine. Okay, so that's the first of our five Nembutsu. The second of our five Nembutsu is to Seishi. I think Seishi's up there, am I right? Behind me here, and also the statue in the corner here. Seishi represents wisdom, and we're going to sing a nenbutsu for Seishi. Pretty good. So we'll do 3 times in unison. Now for the 3rd time, bottom part will carry on going, then I'll bring in the middle part, and then in the top part. Excuse me.
1, 2, 3. Namo Sei Shi Bosat. Namo Sei Shi Bosat. Namo Sei Shi Bosat. Namo Sei Shi Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat— namo se shivah satnamam. Namo Sei Shiva Bhagavata Ramana Maharshi. Satya Robyn. Namaste, Shri Bosak. Namaste, Shri Bosak. Namaste, Shri Bosak. Namaste, Shri Bosak. Namose Shivaya. Namose Shivaya. Namose Shivaya. Namose Shivaya. Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namose Shivohsat! Namaste, Shri Bosa.
Namaste, Shri Bosa. So the next one is to Kuan Yin. Kuan Yin is over here behind Satya Robyn and represents compassion. On this one, visitors can join in because no obligation. Right, the easiest part for visitors to join in with is the low part, which goes like this: Namo Kwan Chi Yin Bo Sat.
Namo Kwan Chi Yin Bo Sat. Namo Kwan Chi Yin Bo Sat. Namokwanji Ngo Sasat! Namokwanshi Ngo Sasat! Shingeki no Satan! Namokwanshi Gurasan! Shin Eiji No Satan! Namaste. Jen posh is the bossa. Namah shivaya, Satya Robyn. Jen posh is the bossa. Namah shivaya, Jen posh is the bossa. Namaste! Jai Jagannath! Om Shri Ramaswamy Ji! Om Shri Rama Krishna Swami Ji! Om Shri Sita Maa Saraswati Ji! Om Shri Lakshmi Devi Ji! Om Shri Ganesha Maharaja! Namo Shivayaam Smritim— Namah Shivaya! Shambhuwanchi Sembhosat! Nama Panchiyamasat! Shambhuwanchi Udosat! Namokwanji Indoshat! Namokwanji in Bursas. Namokwanji in Bursas. Now we're all quiet.
Yes, the visitors have become quiet. This is a secret, right?
It's lovely.
Not anymore. Everyone, anyone is welcome to join the choir whenever they want. It's on the 4th Saturday of every month after the service, so that's half past 10. We do from an hour and a half till 12 o'clock, and it's not just singing chants. We do a lot of fun vocal exercises to develop our our choir singing and our voice work. And there's reading stuff and just generally sort of movement, movement and things. Very unfrightening. Okay. So our fourth Nembutsu is based on some words by Ippon, the Pure Land ancestor— well, I don't know if he's an ancestor in some Pure Land traditions, definitely he was the founder of the Pure Land tradition, or his followers were, I don't think he intended it, but anyway, that's by the by. He wrote some very beautiful words which I really particularly love about how you can hear the Nembutsu in the sound of the wind, in the sound of the waves, in the sound of the trees, in the sound of plants moving, everything if you really listen. So, or maybe if you just hear, I think really listening may sound a little bit too much like hard work, but if you really hear, so just relax and allow the sound to happen. So that's the feeling behind this, this Nembutsu, Nembutsu number 4. And was there anything else I wanted to say about it? No, I think that's fine. I think that's absolutely fine. Do 1, 2, then a breath. 1, 2.
Can you hear a moa meet a blue in the rising of the wind of moonlight? Namandabu, Namandabu, can you hear Namor, meet Abu in the rising of the waves. The cosmos sings his name. Namandabu, Namandabu, can you Ee-ah-mo-a-meetapu! In the growing of the way— Ee-ah-mo-a-meetapu! Can you hear? Ee-ah-mo-a-meetapu! In the rising of the way— The cosmos sings his name.
Namaste! Thank you very much— it worked beautifully. Halfway through I thought I used to play the kantele within this, and then I thought no, it sounds so fantastic without it. I didn't, so I put it down. That was great, thank you. Right, so our fifth one will be an altogether one again with the whole extended choir. Right, so this one is Om Amideva Kri, which is a Tibetan version of Nam Wamidabu. So we're covering our bases in this little sharing, and it has 3 parts to it, and the low part again will be a nice one that everyone can join in with.
So—
No, middle part, sorry. The low part is 'Amitabh.' I was thinking, why doesn't it— where's the middle part? That's what I was thinking. So we'll start with the middle part. But middle part can be visiting choir and middle part, and then low part, Amitabh, can be the low part, and then Amma, Amitabh, Amma, Amitabh, Amma, Amitabh. Oh, okay, that's very Oh, you can swap. Okay, it's going to start with the middle part.
Om Mani Devi, Om Mani Devi, Amitabha Devi, Amitabha Devi, Amitabha Devi, Amitabha Devi. Om Mani Padme Hum! Oh my God— oh man... um? Um... yeah okay I'm just gonna do it again because that was really bad so we'll see how this goes. Okay here's another one for you guys to try out if you want to give me some feedback on what happened there but let's go ahead and get into today's video which will be about 3 things every Buddhist should know before they die or pass away. So without further ado please enjoy our topic of choice from MrBeast himself! Hola amigos y amigas de YouTube! My name is Daniel Zuckerman aka The Daily Beastie Boyz and welcome back to yet more videos all around America. Today I wanted to share something very interesting with everyone who watches these episodes. This has been going through many iterations over time; however, no matter when he released them each episode had at least half an hour cut off by his internet provider due to bandwidth issues. He did eventually fix those problems after several months trying different providers until finally got everything working properly. We're hoping your experience won't have any such difficulties like mine. Let us now move forward onto tonight's subject. Tonight we've decided to talk about meditation techniques used throughout history including yoga poses, breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, etc., uh-huh. And then lastly we talked about meditating daily. That sounds good enough right?! Yeah sure why not, maybe someday hopefully next week I can finish editing up part two.
But first let's jump straight into number three. Number Three: Meditation Techniques.
Om Nami Devi! Om Nami Devi! Om Nami Devi! Amitabhadevari! Amitabhadevari! Amitabhadevari! Amitabhadéva! Om Mani Padme Hum! Oh mani padme hum... oh mani padme omami deva— OM AMI DEVAMUMOMAMI DEVAYE. Om Manyudeva! Om manyudevamumomi deyemomaniye teh.
Thank you for that impromptu ending. I suddenly thought, oh, it'd be nice to finish all together. Great, lovely. Thank you very much for coming to our choir show, and that includes everybody.
