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Chanting Talks
A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of musical subphrases, such as Great Responsories and Offertories of Gregorian chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. In the Late Middle Ages, some religious chant evolved into song (forming one of the roots of later Western music).
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Poetry, Love, and Spiritual Rebellion Lay, Ordinary Mind, Passions, Emptiness, Commitment, Balance, Conversation, Addiction... |
Sep 28 1981 |
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Five Masters in the Kamakura Period Lotus Sutra, Faith, Chanting, Evil, Vow, Precepts, Ceremony, Demons, Sangha, Lineage... |
Mar 03 1978 Tassajara |
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Awakening Through Sound and Self-lessnessSerial: SF-00130 Changes that occur during practice period; sutra story of monk retrieving his mother from hell; composing concrete music; Practice Period, Ceremony, Mahayana, Nirvana, Karma, Manjushri, Addiction, Samsara,... |
Dec 10 1975 |
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Attachment to Form: Positive and Negative Practice, Chanting, Tassajara |
Oct 25 1974 SFZC |
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Allen Ginsberg and MusiciansSerial: SF-00107 Musical event Obstacles, Vow, Instruction, Greed, Chanting, Passions, Offering, Attachment, Karma... |
Feb 22 1972 1 City Center |
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Ekō Lecture 2Serial: SR-00229 The Second Morning Eko, Part 1 of 3 [This is the second in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted... Eko, Chanting, Chanting, Anger, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, Karma, Meditation, Doubt,... |
Jul 10 1970 Tassajara |