No coming - no going

"When Heart is Open" is sometimes referred to a "Celtic soul", a wonderful fusion of two art streams.

Before writing this song Morrison for sure had read some Buddhist literature.

He was and is a searcher. Maybe,  he wrote the song as he had a (mild) underlying depression  - and this dysthymia  made him write the most beautiful songs..... ( see his song "underlying depression").

Anyway it's possible to turn the difficulties to something good, as the lotus needs the mud to grow...

The words, "no coming - no going" is possibly from the Buddha himself and can be interpreted in different ways.

Tich Nhath Hanh who wants to  make a modern kind of Buddhism, often refers to the view that nothing is born, nothing dies.

As we never has been born, we never can die....

Before were "born" (conventional truth) we were in our forefathers and foremothers and even in the animals that wandered on the earth before us as they are our relatives too....

When we are fetuses we really look like other animals....



And as we also are made of, and dependent on, the sun, minerals, water and so on - it's more adequate to say that we temporary manifest, rather than are born.

When the conditions are right we manifest and then we than help other things to manifest and become parts of them. If we will have children it's very clear to see this...

But every action we do, karma, will go on in other human beings, animals and plants....
So we are, in parts, reborn in them...

That's a modern interpretation of reincarnation and is nearer science than older ones.

Anyway this song is an opportunity for meditation.

As it must be partly improvised it's hard to now where its going. so why not just listen deeply to the music for 15 minutes. Be lightly aware of the breathing too and if thoughts come, go back to the music when you recognize them.


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