Looking beyond duality ends de-personification an experiment concluded with the crisp realization of personification in all while distracting issues are dishonest exclusivity whereas personification when all open and free in the sound of silence embodies not malice but maybe blindness when looking straight into a source of light not just reflections from formations but right into it will take time to balance then and see ever more what’s here and now in front of one’s nose the very divine always in one form or another personified or not present always.
“Saranam gacchami” — triple gem refuge
Mixolyd–Ionian (reduced) on F 172 Hz (rel. A 432 Hz) — chanting voices, tenor recorder, tanpura — 7:11
“The river cannot go back” by Khalil Gibran جبران خليل جبران
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river can not go back. Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence. The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
Looking beyond duality — stars faded for the sun to rise
Sunrise in the making over the horizon of the Swiss Alps — January 2026 — near Bern, Switzerland
Together in the harmony of life like musicians play together when each given room to be not just to enhance another but to blossom each and all in an infinitely intricate web of life, nature, and relations relaxed flowing in harmony any dissonance may appear absorbed in the present now whether sweet, plain, or sour it’s what it is, no matter what cause and effect nevertheless woven together tight like fabric at times drenched or wrung out it could be spread out for drying then folded and put away, let go or wrapped around for warmth to give cover and protection as outer influence abounds connected to one another together in the harmony of life we may learn this is not mine this I am not so what!
“Sun rays’ dance in a dojo” — welcome to a new cycle
PentaEol / PentaMin (pentatonic minor) on D 144 Hz (rel. A 432 Hz) — 8-string guitar — 3:54
“Shamisen blues” — farewell to another round gone by
PentaEol / PentaMin (pentatonic minor) on C# 275 Hz — shamisen, 7-string guitar, large gong, tanpura — 3:10
Sitting and walking meditation, listening to the sound of silence, chanting mantra syllables, meditative live sounds, core Buddhist affirmations, short conscious dialogues, and reflections.
Sundays 5:00-6:30 p.m., every two months: February 1, 2026 March 22, 2026 May 24, 2026 possibly July 26, 2026 (summer break?) September 27, 2026 November 22, 2026
Facilitator: Ulrico Uli Sacchet, continuous meditation practice and harmony studies since his youth
Rays of the rising sun caught in the mist over the lake being crossed over — December 2024 — Walensee, Switzerland
Awake here now after we slept then awoke so we are awake how much not sleeping nor sleepwalking but awakened woken up somehow more or less here and now in this moment not before nor after here in this very body with breath flowing in and out again and in and out continually in cycles awake and aware a real possibility to embrace what is observe attentively reality’s creation in one’s body and heart-mind awake here now!
“Balancing up and down” — extensive calm
LoloReachMin on D — 8-string guitar & tanpura — 3:58— August 2023 — most successful Tonalibus piece on Spotify
A few pointers to be awake here now
“Whatever [one] frequently thinks and ponders upon, that will become the inclination of his mind.”
“A master of the courses of thought… will think whatever thought he wishes to think and he will not think any thought that he does not wish to think.
“He has severed craving, flung off the fetters, and with the complete penetration of conceit he has made an end of suffering.”
— Majjhima Nikāya – the middle length discourses of the Buddha, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi – Dvedhāvitakka Sutta, 19.6, p. 208 and Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta, 20.8, p. 213-214
Grateful for the beauty awake here and now
What do you see in this cloud formation? — spectacular sunset colors — December 2025 — near Bern, Switzerland
May the beauty of every moment touch our heart. — Happy 2026!
Spiritual openness without any religious or dogmatic fixation is hard to come by in a human world full of distractions and attachments to many things as personality and persons for after all we all are just human in this present body and mind simply together every moment again and anew opening or closing ourselves to spirit the great harmony everyone carries in their heart in silence.
“May the blessings be” — ignorance abandoned
Dorian on C# 138 Hz (rel. A 438) — 8-string guitar — 8:32
Depart or stay
In relation to a place or person:
Depart, if unfulfilled and hard.
Don’t continue, if unfulfilled and easy.
Stay, if fulfilled and hard.
Continue as long as life lasts, if fulfilled and easy.
A dream of life starts to recognize the unicorn at last with one’s bare eye big and small dogs below and above wondering along how much crisis is finally needed to trigger change that is substantial not just cosmetic directed at others but a straight look into karmic mirrors detecting harmony beyond all delusion like the sun shining high above all clouds that’s always present in every loving heart admitting triple love gives some celibacy whatever that means just for oneself alone woven tight together like strands in a cloth for protective warmth through the cold night till the sun rises again hiding stars from view for more dreams of life.
“Dream projections” — let them fly high
Phrygian on D (rel. A 438 Hz) — 4-string guitar, crotales, tanpura — 7:43
Awareness embraces the dream of life
“All objects of the phenomenal world appear and disappear in the big empty space of awareness or, we could say, in the empty space of mind — what Suzuki Roshi called ‘big mind’. When we see in this way, there is a greater sense of spaciousness and ease because we are not fixated on or grasping after objects. But there is still a focus for attention, a thing to come back to again and again, which is the awareness itself. So we can also call this practice the awareness of awareness. It is subtle; awareness is not quite locatable. It is not an object that can be taken hold of; awareness is what holds objects. Your right hand can hold a stick, but it can’t hold itself. As Wei Wu Wei put it, ‘What we are looking for is what is looking.’
“Ajahn Sumedho likened it to our eyes:
Just like the question ‘Can you see your own eyes?’ Nobody can see their own eyes. I can see your eyes but I can’t see my eyes. I’m sitting right here, I’ve got two eyes and I can’t see them. But you can see my eyes. Looking in a mirror I can see a reflection, but that’s not my eyes, it’s a reflection of my eyes. But there’s no need for me to see my eyes because I can see! …
“Awareness can’t be grasped, but we know it’s there. As Ajahn Chah said, ‘You’re riding on a horse and asking Where’s the horse?’ Don’t search too hard. We know awareness by its functioning, its activity of revealing sense objects. If you lose touch with it, just ask, ‘Am I aware right now?’ Then stay with whatever you notice about the awareness. Over time, as this practice becomes more familiar, it will be easier to notice awareness itself.
“Awareness is not a thing that can be taken hold of — and we have to ask if it is in fact a thing at all. We might rather say that awareness is the activity of knowing what arises — not a noun but a verb. Awareness is the knowing. It is a functioning: a revealing, an illuminating of what appears.”
— Guy Armstrong, Emptiness: a practical guide for meditators, p. 213-214
First rays of an awakening sun on triple love
The old Yamaha, Ulrico’s first, now 4-string, the Levin classical 6-string, and the 12 now 7-string guitar
May you and I, may we all dream and live with compassion!
