New Spiritualibus Blog Posts – Excerpts

October 13, 2026

Tonalibus U – the album

Dedicated to Metta and Paloma, the new album Tonalibus U — “Heartfelt tears of joy” appears globally on many music platforms on October 16, 2026 — on Spotify, YouTube Music, YouTube Channel, Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, etc. It offers nine meditative improvisations by Ulrico from early this year in a good hour of uplifting music, at times with a faint touch of blues.

The first three minutes
of the new album
“Tonalibus U”

Start the music and
activate the video wind.

More detailed information you find in the Fidibus shop under Tonalibus U — Album.

Tonalibus U – the album — album cover of Tonalibus U — “Heartfelt tears of joy”

The enlightened nature of hearing

“I began with a practice based on the enlightened nature of hearing. First I redirect my hearing inward in order to enter the current of the sages. Then external sounds disappeared. With the direction of my hearing reversed and with sounds stilled, both sounds and silence ceased to arise. So it was that, as I gradually progressed, what I heard and my awareness of what I heard came to an end. Even when that state of mind in which everything had come to an end disappeared, I did not rest. My awareness and the objects of my awareness were emptied, and when that process of emptying my awareness was wholly complete, then even that emptying and what had been emptied vanished. Coming into being and ceasing to be themselves ceased to be. Then the ultimate stillness was revealed.”

— The Śūraṅgama Sūtra, A New Translation, Buddhist Text Translation Society, pp. 234-235 Avalokiteśvara / Guanshiyin 觀世音

October 10, 2026October 10, 2026

Sound of a flute

Sound of a flute
can you hear it
when present
or also absent
sound arising
and ceasing
do you hear
dependent on
sound coming
to be or ending
always hearing
independent of
a sound or silence
disengaged free from
perception and objects
from the same source
beyond separation
illusions, outflows
choosing one faculty
perception like hearing
with all attention focused
inward to what’s original
in and with all faculties
break through and enter
the current of realization
radiating spiritual freedom.

— inspired by The Śūraṅgama Sūtra,
Choosing One Faculty in Order to Liberate All Six
and The Example of the Bell’s Sound

“Wondrous suchness of reality” — holy awe

G base (rel. A 432 Hz), bidirectional harmonics w/a touch of MixolydIonian — double fujara — 3:42

Practice awakening as in sound and silence

“To transform your … awareness into … purity … pull out the root of death and rebirth and rely on that pure and perfect nature that neither comes into being nor ceases to be. Use the purity of your true nature to make disappear the distinction between your original state of enlightenment and the illusory state of what comes into being and ceases to be. The original enlightened understanding, which neither comes into being nor ceases to be, must be the basis of your practice. Then you will attain the awakening that will be the result of your practice.”

“Choose one faculty [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, cognitive] as a gateway to deep practice. If you take that path until you have left behind all distortion within that one faculty, then all other faculties will be purified as well.”

“Be/become patient with the state of mind in which no mental objects arise.”

— The Śūraṅgama Sūtra, A New Translation, Buddhist Text Translation Society, pp. 173, 179, and 229/232

Subtle layers of perception like sounds of a flute

Sound of a flute — Gentle horizon of mountains, hills, roofs, and trees — September 2026 — near Bern, Switzerland

May we all hear the pure sound and silence of a flute!

October 5, 2026

Neither same nor different

Neither same
nor different
can really be
identified so
by faculties
that sense
perceive
objects
to register in
consciousness
maybe pleasant
or unpleasant
neither nor
dependent
on each other
in existence
come to be
not caused
conditioned
nor on their own
what a wondrous
suchness of reality
neither same nor different.

Enlightenment
inherent in one
understanding
falsifies it all
understood
who does it
deluded split
into compatible
and incompatible
with shared karma
union or separation
in emotional love
hunger exists
for each other
to steal and kill
such distortion
perpetuated
by adding any
understanding
to the inherent
enlightenment in all.

Apart from ‘is’
and from ‘is not’
both is and is not
it is and is not
and neither
is nor is not
a confusion
is based only
on confusion
delusion has
no existence
cease arising
and perishing
also left behind
the leaving behind
transcend speculation
cultivate free of outflow
remove worldly torments
of hate and unwholesome love.

— inspired by The Śūraṅgama Sūtra,
The Matrix of the Thus-Come One and
The Coming into Being of the World of Illusion

“Neither same nor different” — it just is

HexaMin on C# (rel. A 438 Hz) — 8-string guitar, shamisen, singing saw — 3:54

Evviva il clown! — Long live the clown!

“There are six guiding principles in my life. The first is to be a good clown and to keep getting better. The second is that I want to be a good person — and to keep getting better at that, too. The third is that I want to live every day as if it were my last. The fourth is the awareness that everything I do has consequences. Good deeds have good consequences, evil deeds have evil ones… The endless webs… I know that everything I do here not only has an immediate consequence, but also weaves new threads into the webs that extend into the future and shape destinies. That even the smallest deed is recorded in the Book of Life…

“The fifth guiding principle in my life is that hardly a day goes by when I don’t have to think about all the suffering in this world, about the mystery of the enormous injustices that people inflict on one another. And with this, I realize time and again how privileged I am to be able to pursue my calling — one of the most beautiful there is in this world. And the sixth guiding principle is that we are here in this world to learn constantly.”

— Dimitri – Der Clown in mir, Hanspeter Gschwend, p. 223

On top of the planet contemplating giant guardians

May there always be a clown in our life — neither same nor different!

September 24, 2026September 24, 2026

Come back again

Come back again
not to where I was
in consciousness
but to this world
for yet another life
not because I must
but because I choose
to celebrate life’s joy
and give what I can
see what’s going on
and help as possible
let an embryo grow
not ever confined
inside any womb
raise a new baby
not being stuck
or locked inside
in mind and spirit
with a beating heart
to give a helping hand
to everyone and all
sentient beings
everywhere
I wish and plan
to come back again
a possibility we create.

“Śūraṅgama mantra beginner’s blues” — all 554 lines

PentaEol / PentaMin, HexaMin, Aeolian on D# (rel. A 438 Hz) — reciting voice, 8-string guitar — 28:39

Come back beyond what ‘is’ and ‘is not’

“The true reality that does exist, and that is who we really are, lies beyond our attachment to a duality of self and other and a duality of existence and nonexistence.”

“In enlightenment, how could there be identity or a lack if it?”

“Neither the affirmation nor the denial of the statement ‘That is [me]’ is true.”

“Neither affirm nor deny… All your various interpretations of… awareness and… objects are nothing but delusion, and in the midst of delusion one cannot avoid thinking ‘That is’ and ‘That is not.’ Only from within the true, essential, wonderfully understanding, awakened [heart-]mind can one escape the error of trying to point to what ‘is’ and what ‘is not.'”

— The Śūraṅgama Sūtra, A New Translation, Buddhist Text Translation Society, pp. xliii and 70-71

Come back to be — an invitation from Heaven to Earth

Come back again — Earth entrance — June 2008 — Ladakh — photo by Michel A. Sacchet

May you and I, may we all awake and understand!

September 20, 2026September 20, 2026

Tonality of the moment: HexaMin

The tonality of the moment for autumn-winter 2026 is HexaMin.

HexaMin on C# (rel. A 438 Hz) — 8-string guitar — “Neither same nor different — base” — 3:54 — as loop on a separate tab

HexaMin, a fully anchored hexatonality, is the tonality of the moment. It is the equivalent to Aeolian or natural minor without a sixth. Or PentaMin / PentaEol or pentatonic minor with the major second. The absence of the sixth and the presence of the major second produce a subtle openness and flexibility, all depending on the angle of harmonic perspective or scalar approach. This is a rather common an aspect in harmony and also in life.

The above sound sample exists also in a polyphonic version as “Neither same nor different — it just is”. Plus further, HexaMin surfaces in the Tonalibus recordings “Śūraṅgama mantra beginner’s blues — all 554 lines” from September 2026, in “J’en ai marre — How much is too much?” from June 2026, and in “Pulsating through life — lead on!” from August 2023, among others.

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.