New Spiritualibus Blog Posts – Excerpts

This winter-spring 2026 Tonalibus update announces the coming release of the new triple album Tonalibus R, S & T on May 1. Then it highlights new Tonalibus recordings in Playlist U and in the now complete Playlist T and Winter 2025-2026 sounds. Further it touches on a renewed element of the Tonalibus website and on regular sound meditations offered at the House of Religions in Bern.

Upcoming new triple album release on May 1

The new triple album Tonalibus R, S & T by Ulrico appears globally on many music platforms on May 1, 2026 — on Spotify, YouTube Music, Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and many more. Detailed info about this new triple album and its individual 27 tracks is available on the page Tonalibus R, S & T — Album. Its initial track is “May the blessings be” — ignorance abandoned (below).

“May the blessings be” — ignorance abandoned — Dorian on C# 138 Hz (rel. A 438) — 8-string guitar — Dec. 2025 — 8:32

Winter-spring 2026 Tonalibus playlists and sounds update

The new Playlist U “Heartfelt tears of joy” by now already offers two new pieces from February 2026:
— “Saṃbhogakāya संभोगकाय / 報身” — body of enjoyment
— “Heartfelt tears of joy” — can you feel them? (below)

Winter 2025-2026 sounds is now complete with thirteen new pieces, four of them with Christina Braun (voice) that are also in the new playlist Coop C.

“Heartfelt tears of joy” — can you feel them? — Mixolydian on F# 184 Hz (rel. A 438 Hz) — 7-string guitar, lap slide guitar, tingsha cymbals, tanpura — February 2026 — 10:48

Playlist T “Forward in the sound of light” is now complete with these new pieces from November 2025 through February 2026:
— “Bodhi Paloma” — home sweet home
— “Dream projections” — let them fly high
— “May the blessings be” — ignorance abandoned (above)
— “Shamisen blues” — farewell to another round gone by
— “Sun rays’ dance in a dojo” — welcome to a new cycle
— “Saranam gacchami” — triple gem refuge (below)
— “Non-return” — from a non-I retreat
— “Dragonfly wings” — with Christina Braun (voice)
— “It is what it is” — with Christina Braun (voice)

“Saranam gacchami” — triple gem refuge — Mixolyd–Ionian (reduced) on F 172 Hz (rel. A 432 Hz) — chanting voices, tenor recorder, tanpura — January 2026 — 7:11

Renewed on this website and at the House of Religions

The reference list of deeply inspiring individuals on the page about Ulrico more than doubled its listed names.

The chanting samples on the page Mantras of soul offers:
— “A blessing of Ōṃ / Aum ॐ” — love for all beings
— “Tears of joy” — mantra of soul
— “Saranam gacchami” — triple gem refuge (above)
— a link to a version of the “Mahamrityunjaya Mantra”

Every other month at the House of Religions in Bern, Ulrico animates the meditative practice meeting “Together in the harmony of life” — silence, sound, and words.

May you and I, may we all be diligent, ardent, and resolute!

February 23, 2026February 25, 2026

A burning platform

A burning platform
this world in flames
handling the fire well
an ultimate challenge
withdraw the attention
from all dire things
to the beneficial
to nurture
healing
the potential
in every existence
accepting circles of life
have no start nor end
but start and end all
in the flow of love
in compassion
benevolence
sharing joy
equanimous
tending the fire
harness the heat
for life and not death
as cycles start and close
right now in this moment
the eternal here and now
answering a call for help!

“Saṃbhogakāya संभोगकाय / 報身” — body of enjoyment

Dorian on G# 102 Hz & Mixolydian on C# 136 Hz (rel. A 432 Hz) — 7-string guitar, Zildjian cymbal, tanpura — 8:34

Happy lunar new year — Bīng Wū 丙午年

When, above the flames, ten thousand horses tear through the land, the sage, Shengren 聖人, stands upright and understands:

“Interrupt knowledge, stop discriminating… discard skills, give up advantages… culture is not enough… see the simple things, take the piece of raw wood in your arms…”

May this challenging year sincerely propel us further into the new world!

— Chinese New Year card, Elena Camesi Janke, inspied by the Daodejing #19 by Laozi

A sprouting world — a burning platform?

February 16, 2026

Tonality of the moment: HexaBluNaMix

The tonality of the moment for spring 2026 is HexaBluNaMix.

HexaBluNaMix on G# — extra sound sample — 7-string guitar, tanpura — January 2026 — 6:27 — as loop on a separate tab

HexaBluNaMix is a BluNa / (Lo)Mid hexatonality, an unusual group of partially anchored tonalities (listed below). The unique internal balance of this tonality is also evident in its visual representation. As BluNa tonality, it contains no second or quart but the minor as well as the major third. And Mix as concluding syllable of its name indicates that the upper tetrachord is DorMixolydian. This unique tonality surfaces in the Tonalibus recordings “Nirodha blues — dance of the trees” from April 2025, “Non-return — from a non-I retreat” from January 2026, and “It is what it is — with Christina Braun” from February 2026.

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or HU, or another mantra syllable that suits you.

May the sound of silence touch and uplift our heart!

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026

Refuge

Refuge
still a name
once chosen
fully independent
by oneself long ago
for breeding reptiles
along feeder rodents
the cycle of existence
breathing in, out, pause
bodies present here now
the miracle of life in action
countless stars seen at night
often veiled or hidden by clouds
shining brightly all the time
like the sun all day
just one for all
or all for one
bodies here
incarnated
flesh, bones
are you here
how are you
who is it
is it you
or am I
here
now
?

NO ANSWER, PLEASE!

“Non-return” — from a non-I retreat

HexaBluNaMix (w/a touch CorMix) on G# 207 Hz (rel. A 438 Hz) — 7-string guitar, tanpura — 6:27

The sound of silence and harmony of life as refuge

“As you calm down, you can experience the sound of silence in the mind. You hear it as a kind of high frequency sound, a ringing sound that’s always there. It is just normally never noticed. Now when you begin to hear that sound of silence, it’s a sign of emptiness — of silence of the mind. It’s something you can always turn to. As you concentrate on it and turn to it, it can make you quite peaceful and blissful. Meditating on that, you have a way of letting the conditions of the mind cease without suppressing them with another condition.”

— The Way It Is, Ajahn Sumedho, p. 75

“Speak only of what you have known, seen, and understood for yourselves…
This Dhamma [the harmony of life] is visible here and now, immediately effective, inviting inspection, onward leading, to be experienced by the wise for themselves.”

— Majjhima Nikāya – the middle length discourses of the Buddha, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi – Mahātaṇhāsankhaya Sutta, 38.24 & 25, p. 358

Refuge here now — together in the harmony of life

May you and I, may we all realize peace in our heart!

January 27, 2026

Looking beyond duality

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.