How are you faring amidst the capitalistic onslaught of the season?

Let’s pause a moment together and engage our creativity and compassion, shall we?

I sometimes find it challenging at this time of the year to keep a sacred space open in my inner landscape for true connection to music.

A disciple asked Sri Ramana Maharshi, “How can I control the mind?”

Ramana responded, “There is no mind to control if the Self is realized. The Self shines forth when the mind vanishes.

Want a fresh perspective in your creative practice today?

Yeah, me too!

Listen, I know that there are as many different ways to write music as there are musicians, so it might very well be that what I’m about to suggest is exactly how you already work. If so, please forgive me.

What did you discover about song titles?
The meta-observation I want to make is that you already know how to make song titles that are interesting to you because you’ve been listening to music all your life and noticing the titles and you’re a curious sort of creator who has found their way to this newsletter.

If you’re going it alone in your creative journey and you’re completely fulfilled and you’re achieving all your goals, then please email me back so all of us at golden lotus studio can follow you on Insta and Spotify and celebrate your success. Huzzah!

If you’re going it alone in your creative journey and you’re completely fulfilled and you’re achieving all your goals, then please email me back so all of us at golden lotus studio can follow you on Insta and Spotify and celebrate your success. Huzzah!

When I was a young man studying Zen meditation, I got the chance to study with the outstanding Roshi Gerry Shishin Wick at Great Mountain Zen Center in Colorado. He gave me much great instruction, but there was a moment I will never forget.

How do we grow as artists and as humans on the path?

Did I hear you say “challenge”? Yes, you are very much on to something there…One thinks immediately of Frida Kahlo in her bed after the bus accident turning to painting. Or Byron Katie sleeping on the floor and having an experience of profound awakening when a cockroach crawled across her foot.

I know that you’re here for it. I know that on a fundamental level you get the importance, to your soul and the souls of others, of rooting your creative practice in your spiritual practice. Or at least you have a sense of how the two are connected.