Lyrics for the song “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd
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David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome)
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Hello
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home
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"Comfortably Numb" Re-Imaginedhttps://youtu.be/WBmrT3uqmeM?si=javhcXlke9hhy1Cl
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Comfortably number one, but…
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
–Frédéric Chopin (attributed)There’s nothing like a guitar solo to immediately endear you to a song. There are, of course, many great guitar solos in recorded music history, but a great one can leave you forever entranced.
I recently stumbled across an online article in Men’s Journal about guitar solos that referenced a poll conducted in another magazine. While I don’t read Men’s Journal or any other men’s magazines for that matter, the poll conducted by Guitar Player definitely piqued my interest.
Guitar Player was established in 1967 and lists itself as the most comprehensive, insightful and trusted publication for guitar enthusiasts of all persuasions and given their seniority, I have no reason not to believe them. They ran a poll on the “greatest guitar solo” among their readers at some point in 2024 and published the results in their October 27th issue of that year.
The writers concede that the poll’s subject is a thorny, divisive issue. It is, after all, highly subjective, but these readers are actual guitar players, so I guess their opinions must be respected, even if grudgingly. All those who made the top twenty were all very familiar names. While I very much agree with the overall winner, David Gilmour, I’m somewhat conflicted about the other rankings.
https://youtu.be/QrWZNAQrkf4?si=3cJsHW0AyFn0uW9G
Disappointingly, however, one name that, in my opinion, should have made the cut for either Tin Pan Alley or Little Wing is very conspicuously missing. I’m referring, of course, to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Interestingly, two guitarists who are virtuosos in their own right featured as session or guest musicians for other bands. Eric Clapton played on While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Eddie Van Halen played on Beat It. Be that as it may, here are the published poll results from Guitar Player:
- Pink Floyd — Comfortably Numb (1979) [Guitarist: David Gilmour]
- Van Halen — Eruption (1978) [Guitarist: Eddie Van Halen]
- Led Zeppelin — Stairway To Heaven (1971) [Guitarist: Jimmy Page]
- Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) [Guitarist: Brian May]
- Eagles — Hotel California (1977) [Guitarists: Don Felder & Joe Walsh]
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience — All Along The Watchtower (1968) [Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix]
- Dire Straits — Sultans Of Swing (1978) [Guitarist: Mark Knopfler]
- Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird (1974) [Guitarist: Allen Collins]
- Chicago — 25 OR 6 TO 4 (1969) [Guitarist: Terry Kath]
- The Beatles — While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968) [Guitarist: Eric Clapton]
- Michael Jackson — Beat It (1982) [Guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
- Ozzy Osbourne — Crazy Train (1980) [Guitarist: Randy Rhoads]
- Guns N’ Roses — Sweet Child O’ Mine (1988) [Guitarist: Slash]
- Deep Purple — Highway Star (1972) [Guitarist: Ritchie Blackmore]
- Prince — Purple Rain (1984) [Guitarist: Prince]
- Eric Johnson — Cliffs Of Dover (1990) [Guitarist: Eric Johnson]
- Cream — Crossroads (1968) [Guitarist: Eric Clapton]
- Steely Dan — Kid Charlemagne (1976) [Guitarist: Larry Carlton]
- Metallica— Fade To Black (1984) [Guitarist: Kirk Hammett]
- Gary Moore — Still Got the Blues (1990) [Guitarist: Gary Moore]
Comfortably Numb, which was originally titled The Doctor was released by Pink Floyd from their 11th studio album, The Wall, a year later as a single in 1980. Roger Waters, who wrote the lyrics, sang the verses, while David Gilmour, who composed the music, sang the chorus. Gilmour originally composed the music for his own solo album, but didn’t end up using it. Waters was inspired by an experience he had after being injected with tranquillisers to treat stomach cramps to write the lyrics.
Apparently, both musicians argued over how to record the song, and the eventual version that was released was a compromise. I can’t really say if this argument was the beginning of the rift that drove both musicians apart, and which still lasts today. Even so, they have gone on to become very successful solo artists. The enmity between them notwithstanding, I have huge respect for both.
Roger Waters is also an outspoken activist and frequently champions the cause for justice for the Palestinian people being oppressed by Israel. In 2022, he released a new version of the song Comfortably Numb 2022 during COVID, to play as an opener for his concerts. In June 2026, Waters released yet another version of the song, this time with Mona Miari, a Palestinian-American artist, singer, and songwriter.
https://youtu.be/WBmrT3uqmeM?si=-TWjI9fhckSHv0lu
This last one is a complete rework and features haunting images of the destruction wreaked by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza. While it won’t appeal to everyone, it has most certainly resonated with me on several levels, musically, artistically, politically and humanitarianly.
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To get a better understanding of what Roger Waters and Mona Miri will show you, I like you to watch the 4 pictures that I post as a reply to this Toot before you watch this version of 'Comfortably Numb'.
Thanks.
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Beautiful remake of an iconic Pink Floyd song.
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Comfortably Numb reimagined.
Roger Waters and Mona Miari.
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Finally Friday Reads: Our Racist President Rides Again
“The Orangeutan is full-bore flinging poo to distract from the Epstein Trump Files.” John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers
My outrage today at the latest, least presidential Truth Social Post that I may have ever seen knows no bounds. And yet, the boundless insanity of the “Press Secretary” tells me it’s fake. Don’t you just hate it when some Clairol MAGA Blonde bimbo tries to tell you how you feel? Here’s the headline at the New York Times. I’d share the Washington Post headline, too, but Jeff Bezos is busy ripping all the vital organs of that once great newspaper. “Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes. The White House press secretary dismissed criticism of the clip’s racist content, shared by the president’s Truth Social account, as “fake outrage.” What an international disgrace of a country we’ve become!
Erica L. Green and Isabella Kwai share the lede.
President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, the latest in a long pattern by Mr. Trump of promoting offensive stereotypes about Black Americans and others.
The brief clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about anomalies in the 2020 presidential election.
The depiction of Mr. and Mrs. Obama as apes perpetuates a racist trope, used historically by slave traders and segregationists to dehumanize Black people and justify lynchings and other atrocities. A spokeswoman for Mr. Obama declined to comment.
Mr. Trump has a history of making degrading remarks about people of color, women and immigrants. And in his second administration, official posts from the White House, Labor Department and Homeland Security Department have posted images and slogans that echo white supremacist messaging.
In response to questions about the clip, which Mr. Trump posted Thursday during a late-night spree on social media, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said criticism of the video was “fake outrage.”
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” she said. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina — the Senate’s only Black Republican — wrote on X that he hoped the post was fake “because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”
The latest clip appeared to have been taken from a video that was shared in October by a user on X with the caption “President Trump: King of the Jungle,” and an emoji of a lion.
In that video, several high-profile Democrats — including former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and former vice president Kamala Harris — were shown as various animals, while Mr. Trump was depicted as a lion. The Obamas, in the clip, were shown as apes. The video ended with the animals bowing down to Mr. Trump.
NBC News‘ Rebecca Shabad has further information on the disgusting post. “Trump shares racist video depicting the Obamas as monkeys. The White House defended Trump’s post, saying it was “from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle.”
The roughly minute-long video otherwise focused on false election fraud claims about the 2020 presidential election, but at the very end it suddenly flashed to a clip of the Obamas’ faces superimposed on the heads of cartoon apes as the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens played in the background.
The imagery, which evokes long-standing racist tropes against Black people, comes during Black History Month, which honors the accomplishments and contributions of Black Americans. Barack Obama made U.S. history as the first Black president.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to NBC News’ request for comment Friday morning with a statement: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
The video the White House referred to appeared to have been posted initially by an X user in October and shows the Obamas as apes in the beginning and other Democrats’ faces as the heads of other African animals as the song continues to play. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is depicted as a warthog and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker as an elephant, for example, while Trump is presented as a lion.
Representatives for the Obamas didn’t immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.
Trump’s repost drew strong criticism on social media, including from Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who sharply denounced the president on X. “Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it,” he said.
The President continues to do despicable things to immigrant families and to communities that stand up to his reckless and unconstitutional policies. This is from MPR News, located in the Twin Cities area. Regina Medina reports the story. “DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos.”
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family. The 5-year-old returned home this week after he was detained with his father on Jan. 20 and sent to a detention center in Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security filed a motion Wednesday to expedite deportation proceedings in the family’s case, said immigration attorney Danielle Molliver with Nwokocha & Operana Law Offices.
A hearing is scheduled for Friday, although Molliver is requesting more time to respond. She said she thought the motion was “retaliatory.”
“It’s really frustrating as an attorney, because they keep throwing new obstacles in our way. There’s absolutely no reason that this should be expedited. It’s not very common,” Molliver said.
Molliver said the federal government may not deport them to Ecuador, their home country. Instead, the family could apply for asylum in a third country.
Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said they don’t know what will happen to them.
“The government is moving many pieces, it’s doing everything possible to do us harm, so that they’ll probably deport us. We live with that fear too,” Conejo Arias said. The interview was conducted in Spanish and translated by MPR News.
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I truly believe that the more he goes after this family, the more his polls will fall, and he will pull Republicans down further as the Midterm elections near. What is also clear is that the Washington Post will not be up to doing any kind of real reporting on any of this. Ruth Marcus of The New Yorker has this analysis. “How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post. The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.”
On September 4, 2013, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos held his first meeting with the staff of the Washington Post, the newspaper he had agreed to purchase a month earlier from the Graham family, for two hundred and fifty million dollars. It had been a long and unsettling stretch for the paper’s staff. We—I was a deputy editor of the editorial page at the time—had suffered through years of retrenchment. We trusted that Don Graham would place us in capable hands, but we did not know this new owner, and he did not know or love our business in the way that the Graham family had. Bezos’s words at that meeting, about “a new golden era for the Washington Post,” were reassuring. Bob Woodward asked why he had purchased the paper, and Bezos was clear about the commitment he was prepared to make. “I finally concluded that I could provide runway—financial runway—because I don’t think you can keep shrinking the business,” he said. “You can be profitable and shrinking. And that’s a survival strategy, but it ultimately leads to irrelevance, at best. And, at worst, it leads to extinction.”
To look back on that moment is to wonder: How could it have come to this? The paper had some profitable years under Bezos, sparked by the 2016 election and the first Trump term. But it began losing enormous sums: seventy-seven million dollars in 2023, another hundred million in 2024. The owner who once offered runway was unwilling to tolerate losses of that magnitude. And so, after years of Bezos-fuelled growth, the Post endured two punishing rounds of voluntary buyouts, in 2023 and 2025, that reduced its newsroom from more than a thousand staffers to under eight hundred, and cost the Post some of its best writers and editors. Then, early Wednesday morning, newsroom employees received an e-mail announcing “some significant actions.” They were instructed to stay home and attend a “Zoom webinar at 8:30 a.m.” Everyone knew what was coming—mass layoffs.
The scale of the demolition, though, was staggering—reportedly more than three hundred newsroom staffers. The announcement was left to the executive editor, Matt Murray, and human-relations chief Wayne Connell; the newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, was nowhere to be seen as the grim news was unveiled. In what Murray termed a “broad strategic reset,” the Post’s storied sports department was shuttered “in its current form”; several reporters will now cover sports as a “cultural and societal phenomenon.” The metro staff, already cut to about forty staffers during the past five years, has been shrunk to about twelve; the foreign desks will be reduced to approximately twelve locations from more than twenty; Peter Finn, the international editor, told me that he asked to be laid off. The books section and the flagship podcast, “Post Reports,” will end. Shortly after the meeting, staffers received individualized e-mails letting them know whether they would stay or go. Murray said the retrenched Post would “concentrate on areas that demonstrate authority, distinctiveness, and impact,” focussing on areas such as politics and national security. This strategy, a kind of Politico-lite, would be more convincing if so many of the most talented players were not already gone.
Graham, who has previously been resolutely silent about changes at the paper, posted a message on Facebook that pulsed with anguish. “It’s a bad day,” he wrote, adding, “I am sad that so many excellent reporters and editors—and old friends—are losing their jobs. My first concern is for them; I will do anything I can to help.” As for himself, Graham, who once edited the sports section, said, “I will have to learn a new way to read the paper, since I have started with the sports page since the late 1940’s.”
Tech Bros and MAGA have ruined our democracy. Paul Krugman, however, argues that “American Decency Still Lives. When pushed far enough, Americans will do the right thing.” This is posted on his SubStack. I have found this to be true here in New Orleans. Even more so, I watch the city where I lived before moving here show the earnest Lutheran social justice so famously known as Minnesota nice. It has a yin and a yang, believe me.
If you want to accomplish anything in politics, you have to have realistic expectations about voters. Ordinary people aren’t deeply informed about policy or politics. They have jobs to do, children to raise, lives to live. A large proportion of voters don’t have strong ideological preferences — not because they’re “moderates,” but because they don’t think ideologically at all. Instead, they think pragmatically – they think about things like the price of eggs and the cost of health insurance. And because the average voter isn’t a policy or data wonk, they are often misled – for example, by claims that crime is rising even when it’s actually falling.
Granted, some voting behavior is motivated by ugly biases. Racism and sexism, homophobia and transphobia, are still important factors in politics. But there’s a difference between political realism and nihilistic cynicism.
Many of my readers are probably aware of the famous confessional by the German pastor Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for meI don’t know if Stephen Miller has ever seen these words. But if he has, he has taken them not as a warning but as operating instructions. MAGA’s ethnic cleansing plans — because that’s what they are — were clearly based on the cynical assumption that native-born white Americans wouldn’t rise to the defense of civil liberties and rule of law if state violence was directed at people who don’t look like them.
And for much of Trump’s first year in office many Democrats were reluctant to challenge his immigration policies, because their defeat in 2024 was widely seen as in part a response to surging immigration during the Biden years. Until recently, Democrats tried to keep the national conversation focused on affordability and Trump’s obvious failure to deliver on his promises to bring grocery prices way down.
While the Democratic strategy was an understandable response to a shattering electoral defeat, it rested on a cynical and nihilistic view of American voters: that they couldn’t be trusted to vote against a party that reveled in inflicting cruelty and injustice as long as the price of gasoline fell.
But recent events refute this nihilistic cynicism. Yes, Americans still name the economy as the most important political issue. But moral outrage over the Trump administration’s brutality (and its corruption, but that’s a subject for another post) has exploded as a political force over the past two months.
There was substantial resistance to ICE’s attempts to intimidate Los Angeles and Chicago. But the response since the invasion of Minneapolis (and now all of Minnesota) began in December has been on another level, a mass nonviolent uprising reminiscent of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the color revolutions in the former Soviet empire.
MPR News reports that nearly 30,000 Minnesotans have been trained as constitutional observers, with another 6,000 volunteers registered to deliver food, give at-risk families rides, and so on. This is time-consuming, exhausting, dangerousactivism. Yet ordinary Americans in large numbers are willing to do it.
Cell phone cameras and whistles can’t completely stop ICE’s brutality and lawlessness. For some reason I’m especially troubled by tales of the many cars found abandoned in the middle of the street, their windows smashed and their occupants obviously abducted. But the resistance is throwing sand in the gears and producing acute frustration among the masked thugs, who have repeatedly been filmed drawing guns on citizens doing nothing but observing them.
And the public is not on the side of the thugs.
Profanity-laden anti-MAGA chant erupts at major pro-wrestling event
Plus, once again, a major nation is turning to China for its trade initiatives because our #FARTUS is too stupid and stuck-up to recognize that his economic policies are dooming a lot of our industries and jobs. This is from the AP. I cannot believe we keep repeating obvious mistakes from the past because no one in Congress will do their fucking job! “Facing high Trump tariffs, Africa’s leading economy says it’s close to a new trade deal with China.” Just think, a few years ago, we were on target to keep them in second place.
China and South Africa signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal on Friday as Africa’s leading economy looks to other options following the high import tariffs imposed on it by the U.S. and its diplomatic fallout with the Trump administration.
South Africa’s Ministry of Trade and Industry said the agreement would start negotiations over a deal that would give some South African goods, such as fruit, duty-free access to the Chinese market. The ministry said it expected the trade deal to be finalized by the end of March.
In return, the trade ministry said China will get enhanced investment opportunities in South Africa, where its car sales have seen rapid growth.
The U.S. slapped 30% duties on some South African goods under U.S. President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs policy — one of the higher rates applied across the world. South Africa has said it is still negotiating with the U.S. for a better deal.
The China-South Africa deal follows others looking for alternatives to U.S. partnership in the face of Trump’s aggressive trade policies.
The announcement on the negotiations between China and South Africa came days after Trump issued a short-term renewal of a longstanding free-trade agreement between the U.S. and African nations. The U.S. extended the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which South Africa is a major beneficiary of, just until the end of the year and indicated it would be modified to fit the administration’s America First policy.
China is already South Africa’s largest trade partner for both imports and exports, while Chinese economic influence across the African continent continues to grow and it dominates in the extraction of Africa’s critical minerals that are key components for new high-tech products.
“South Africa looks forward to working with China in a friendly, pragmatic and flexible manner,” the trade ministry said.
The Stupid. It hurts.
What’s on your reading and blogging list today?
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"Hey You" is a song by the English #rock band Pink Floyd, released on their eleventh studio album The Wall (1979). It also appeared as the #Bside to the "#ComfortablyNumb" single in June 1980. The song, along with "#TheShowMustGoOn", was edited out of #PinkFloydTheWall (1982) to prevent the film from running too long; however, a rough version is available as an extra on the 25th Anniversary Edition #DVD of The Wall.
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Google tells me this is the 514th latgest #yacht in the world. #ComfortablyNumb, In #Curacao Speculating on who may own it. Anyone know?
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Thinking about that time I recorded an arrangement of Comfortably Numb in 7/8 time signature.
Can't believe that was during the *first month* of the pandemic quarantine!
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Het boeddhisme is via de meditatie het Westen binnengekomen. Het was blijkbaar een praktijk die ons lag. Daar is op zich niets mis mee, maar meditatie is maar een onderdeel ervan. Het boeddhistische pad wordt traditioneel weergegeven als een triade: sila, samadhi, prajna. In westerse termen vertaald staat sila voor ethiek, prajna voor wijsheid en samadhi voor meditatie.
Westerse beoefenaars gingen mediteren. Filosofen waren meer geïnteresseerd in de wijsheid en begonnen de sutra’s en de geschriften van Nagarjuna en Dogen te lezen op de manier zoals ze Plato en Kant lazen. Het ethische aspect bleef het onderschoven kindje. Het boeddhisme kwam dan ook binnen in een klimaat waar we ons net aan het vrijvechten waren van iedere onderdrukkende moraal.
Maar sila, samadhi en prajna zijn onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden. Het is als de hoeken van een driehoek. Je kunt niet één hoek oppakken zonder de andere mee te hebben. Ze zijn onderling afhankelijk.
Een valkuil van zen is de praktijk van meditatie te zien als als een hoger pad dat ons gaat bevrijden van het lijden, terwijl al de rest misschien verdienstelijk is, maar niet de kern van de zaak. Dat is een pijnlijk misverstand.
Wat we doen op ons kussen is zeker belangrijk. Maar wat we doen wanneer we van ons kussen opstaan, is minstens even belangrijk. Uiteindelijk is het zelfs belangrijker. Onze meditatiepraktijk zou futiel zijn als ze zich niet uitdrukte in ons dagelijkse leven.
Maar hoe kunnen we woorden geven aan die relatie? Een bruikbare metafoor is die van de vijf boeddhafamilies. Je vindt ze zowat overal in het mahayana boeddhisme terug. Je ziet ze in de wapperende ‘gebedsvlaggetjes’, maar ook in de architectuur van de Borobudur en in soms heel complexe mandala’s. Je vindt ze ook in de zentraditie. In onze zenbijeenkomsten plaatsen we ze op het altaar, in de vorm van het boeddhabeeld, het water, de bloem, de kaars en de wierook.
Doordat er tijdens de coronapandemie meer aandacht kwam voor luchtkwaliteit dreigden de kaars en de wierook erbij in te schieten. Sinds kort hebben we de symboliek beter zichtbaar gemaakt in de vorm van een eenvoudige kleine mandala bestaande uit vijf gekleurde schijven.
Mandala
De vijf boeddhafamilies hebben elke hun eigen kleur, hun eigen boeddha (met zowel een mannelijke als en vrouwelijk aspect), hun eigen windrichting, symbool, mudra, element, activiteit, domein, wijsheid … Je kunt er zowat alles in onderbrengen.
Op het altaar zorgen we ervoor dat de groene cirkel altijd naar het noorden wijst. Dat is niet om pietje-precies te zijn. Maar ik woonde onlangs een lezing bij over inheemse rituelen waarbij de spreker het publiek de vraag stelde: wie van jullie weet waar hier het Westen is? Ik moest toegeven dat ik het niet wist. Pas later besefte ik dat de avondzon op dat ogenblik achter mijn rug naar binnen scheen. Tijd om met onze twee voeten op de grond te komen. ’The miracle is to walk on earth’ zei Thich Nhat Hanh.
De boeddha van de witte cirkel in het midden is Vairocana. Zijn naam betekent het alles doordringende licht. Hij wordt vaak afgebeeld met vier hoofden die in de vier richtingen kijken. Het licht van Vairocana doordringt de hele kosmos.
Dat witte licht wordt, als in een prisma, gebroken in vier kleuren. Het zijn vier verschillende aspecten van Vairocana.
De boeddha van de blauwe cirkel in het oosten is Akshobhya, de onwankelbare. Hij raakt met zijn hand de grond aan. Het is de boeddha van het glasheldere inzicht.
De boeddha van de gele cirkel in het zuiden is Ratnasambhava, geboren uit een juweel. Het is de boeddha van de onmetelijke rijkdom. Zijn mudra is een open hand die geeft.
De boeddha van de rode cirkel in het westen is Amithaba, het onmetelijke licht. Zijn mudra is de handen in de schoot, zoals bij de meditatie. Het is de boeddha van het mateloze mededogen.
De boeddha van de groene cirkel in het noorden is Amoghasiddhi, de onstuitbare kracht. Zijn mudra is een gebaar van: ‘vrees niet’. Het is de boeddha van de mateloze inzet.
In zen begint alles bij de witte cirkel in het midden. Dat is onze meditatiepraktijk. Bij iedere cirkel hoort ook een keuze die we kunnen maken. In de meditatie is dat de bereidheid om te kijken. Het is de keuze tussen aanwezig zijn of afstompen. We hebben veel manieren om ons te bedwelmen, letterlijk, zoals in Pink Floyd’s ‘Comfortably Numb’. Maar ook figuurlijk: door alsmaar door te gaan. Zo vernauwt onze blik en sluiten we ons op in een smalle cocon.
In de meditatie stoppen we en kijken we. Het is een bewuste keuze voor een milde open aandacht waarin we niets uitsluiten. De woorden open en mild zijn hier belangrijk. Eigenlijk impliceren ze elkaar. De aandacht is mild alleen al door het feit dat we niets uitsluiten. En door niets uit te sluiten openen we. Wijsheid en mededogen zijn twee aspecten van eenzelfde beweging.
Van daaruit stappen we opnieuw de wereld in. Dat vraagt ons om onze aandacht opnieuw te richten. Laat ons beginnen met de blauwe cirkel. Ook hier zijn we bereid te kijken, maar nu meer specifiek naar wat er gebeurt, naar wat we te doen hebben. De keuze hier is tussen begrijpen of oordelen.
Dat wil niet zeggen dat we niet mogen oordelen. Maar hoe vaak hebben we al een oordeel, nog voordat we begrijpen wat en hoe? Uiteraard zijn er wantoestanden die we zonder enige twijfel moeten veroordelen. Maar ook dan, alleen maar veroordelen is goedkoop. Als we er iets willen mee doen is het beter om te begrijpen, of op zijn minst proberen te begrijpen wat zo een wantoestand mogelijk gemaakt heeft.
De gele cirkel gaat over hoe we omgaan met wat waardevol is. Dat kan materieel zijn zoals geld en andere middelen, maar ook immaterieel zoals onze vaardigheden, wat we creëren, in mijn geval bij voorbeeld wat ik schrijf. De keuze is tussen ‘hou ik alles voor mezelf’ of ‘deel ik wat ik heb’.
Ook hier: niemand zegt dat je alles zomaar moet weggeven. Het gaat over het bewust zijn van keuzes. Maar het is een oude wijsheid dat je niet gelukkig wordt van wat je krijgt, maar van wat je geeft.
De rode cirkel gaat over mededogen, over zorg voor ieder wezen dat op ons pad komt. De keuze hier is tussen grijpen naar liefde en liefde geven. Als je naar liefdesliedjes op de radio luistert, dan gaan ze bijna allemaal over willen hebben: ‘I want you … ‘. Als je vindt dat er te weinig liefde in je leven is kun je er alvast zelf mee beginnen.
Niet dat er iets mis is met passie en verlangen, maar zie ik de ander als object van mijn verlangen of erken ik de ander als een autonoom wezen met zijn eigen bestaansrecht?
De groene cirkel gaat over onze inzet. Zetten we ons enkel in voor ons eigen welzijn of voor het welzijn van de wereld waarin we leven. De burn-out epidemie die we zien heeft veel te maken met een gevoel van zinloosheid in het werk dat we doen. Wie wordt hier beter van?
En het gaat altijd over de keuze. Wat vinden we zinvol om voor te leven? Waar willen we voor gaan? En gaat dat verder dan jezelf?
Je zou onze mandala een moreel kompas kunnen noemen, met dien verstande dat een kompas je niet zegt waar je naar toe moet, maar helpt om je te oriënteren. We gebruiken de uitdrukking ‘moreel kompas’ gemakkelijk om van iemand te zeggen dat die er geen heeft. Maar dit kompas is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor jezelf, niet om anderen mee te beoordelen.
Het is geen ethiek van ‘gij zult’ en ‘gij zult niet’, maar van het bewust zijn van keuzes en van de gevolgen van die keuzes. Dat is niet gemakkelijk. Onze meditatiepraktijk helpt ons om aanwezig te blijven en ons niet reactief te laten meeslepen. Zo houden we de keuzevrijheid aan onszelf. Misschien is moeten en niet mogen veel gemakkelijker. Als je dat liever hebt, er zijn genoeg systemen die daar voor gaan. Dus kun je ook daarvoor kiezen, maar ook dat blijft onvervreemdbaar jouw keuze.
Deze vijf boeddhafamilies zijn uiteraard boeddhistisch, maar de inhoud ervan is algemeen menselijk. En die menselijkheid dreigt uit onze common sense te verdwijnen. Als je de extreme polarisering ziet is er alleen nog maar oordelen zonder luisteren. In gangbare economische theorieën betekent rationeel gedrag dat je winst probeert te maximaliseren. Liefdesliedjes gaan over willen hebben. Als je politiek slogans ziet gaat het vaak over ‘wij eerst’. Daarom is het belangrijke die andere kant te benoemen. De mogelijkheid van luisteren, delen, liefde en inzet voor het welzijn van iedereen.
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@rebeccawatson as someone who very recently almost ended up in the ER for that very reason I will be sure to let you know who I do over the next 3 years. If only you'd been around to assure my wife all I needed was a glass of water and to relax. But at the time we were in the car, close to a hospital and I passed out. Apparently you can do weird things when you pass out and that freaks people out.
Either way the important thing to remember is correlation is not causation.
