WFMU: Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg: Playlist from February 9, 2025

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 恭喜發財 🐍 Gōngxǐ Fācái ! 🐍 'Keep that line Serpentine.' - JulianCope
	♥ 10:00pm Scott_Oz: G'day Jonathan & Blurred Boundaries! 🌏🌞🩴🩴🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 10:03pm Carita: Hey it's blurred time!!!!
	♥ 10:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: Tax the 1%!
	10:06pm HyperDose: SO obscured! 😵‍💫
	10:08pm Jherweg: Howdy gang!
	♥ 10:09pm San Pedro Girl: Hi Jonathan and all!
	🎙 ♥ 10:14pm Ike: Sounding good! However, "Imagination-Painting" is not a word, dude. That little tiny dash needs to be two dashes, and even better, you could use a space before and after the two dashes. Then it would be readable.
	🎙 ♥ 10:16pm Ike: Right now the title of the show is basically A Detrimental Lack of ImaginationPainting "Dogshit Variations" by Michael Donnelly, which is just gibberish. Cool painting though!
	10:18pm Jherweg: Use your imagination Ike and just pretend that it’s the way you need it to be.
	🎙 ♥ 10:20pm Ike: I hold you to high standards because I love ya! I expect more of you than anti-intellectualism of the kind we get from our enemies, and total disrespect for language and clarity.
	♥ 10:24pm Fuzzy: ↳ Song: "Gimme Shelter (isolated vocal)" by "Mary Clayton" Merry Clayton and a whack New Year!
	♥ 10:29pm WallCharger360: Hi Jonathan & listeners
	10:30pm ViolaChica: Cullan sitting here plunking out F minor on the piano saying this piece playing right now is decidely in F minor. Don't shoot the messenger, just sayin'
	10:31pm ViolaChica: Thanks for moving him to play btw.
	10:34pm Soloidus: @ViolaChica what are Cullan's thoughts on playing Bach on the piano with pedal?
	10:34pm Soloidus: ↳ Fuzzy @10:24 believe she was WAY pregnant when she recorded that
	10:36pm misterdavid: Merry was in Los Angeles, sleeping, I think.
	10:36pm CLOUDYJ: Thanks for not liking football! A weapon of mass distraction. Boo on bullies!
	♥ 10:37pm Fuzzy: ↳ misterdavid @10:36 I believe the Stones called her up at like 2 AM Keef Standard Time.
	10:39pm slabengraver: Was never a football fan particularly but seeing how it brings strangers together is pretty neat
	10:39pm ViolaChica: ↳ Soloidus @10:34 He says --- Bach is timeless and Bach is great on the harmonica. On piano, pedal is a device of tone not of blurr, so of course always pedal on the piano.
	10:41pm ViolaChica: ↳ ViolaChica @10:39 He continued -- Bach himself grabbed previously written music and rewrote it for different instrument combinations when he was running out of time for a gig. It makes no difference what instrument you are playing it on it is pure music.
	10:41pm Jherweg: f minor is what I got in most of my college papers.
	10:41pm ViolaChica: ↳ Soloidus @10:34 He also says as an aside jokingly never ever play Beethoven on the harpsichord (lol)
	10:42pm ViolaChica: ↳ Jherweg @10:41 HAHAHAHAHAH! My brother always said, D is for DONE
	♥ 10:46pm Carita: Good mix tonight
	♥ 10:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "Gimme Shelter (isolated vocal)" by "Mary Clayton" 20 Feet From Stardom had a piece on Merry Clayton — www.imdb.com...
	10:49pm Soloidus: ↳ ViolaChica @10:41 Thanks @ViolaChica! I'm a "purist" (or "tool") and tend not to use pedal but Cullan's thoughts may change my mind!
	♥ 10:53pm Carita: Love this type of sounds
	10:53pm slabengraver: I wonder what Žižek thinks of youtube shorts
	11:04pm slabengraver: I love vipassana meditation 👍 breath focused
	11:04pm ViolaChica: We love you!!!
	♥ 11:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I've liked the west coast Buddhist podcast Audio Dharma. They've looked into this stuff for a few thousand years already... But if you want - Meditation can certainly be the most solitary thing in the world. & you can start anywhere & anyplace & anytime. Just focus on your breath. The mind will drift. That is noise. If you get uptight or judgmental about the noise - that's more noise. So just return to the center. & focus on your breath again. No doctrine - no payments. It's all yours.
	11:07pm ViolaChica: ↳ slabengraver @11:04 I was thinking the same as @JHerweg was talking. I have always wanted to go to a 10 day session. Was thinking about this movie too (fyi @jherweg) -- www.youtube.com...
	♥ 11:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If it's not assisting your Liberation - it's not real Buddhism. That might be one way of considering it.
	♥ 11:09pm muckgeist: Step 1: Become present, but not be sure what that means. Step 2: Stop fighting discomfort and suffering. Step 3: Suffer just as much as before, but have a calm expression on your face.
	♥ 11:09pm coelacanth∅: you don't have to pay for t.m.; but if you choose your mantra yourself you're more likely to choose one that doesn't work for you, because you'll have some sort of connection to it.
	♥ 11:09pm coelacanth∅: (that's my theory. i just made it up.)
	♥ 11:11pm coelacanth∅: Jonathan if you're looking for good background music for meditation (not t.m.) Jacob Kirkegaard (sp?) has an album called "4 rooms" that might be very good for that.
	♥ 11:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Anything you focus on - even an image of the Buddha - is just somewhere to hang your attention like you hang your hat on a hook. It's all idols - so know where the idol is - precisely to knock it off the pedastal.
	♥ 11:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Music is the thing that comes closest to the profundity of Silence. But why have Music when you Meditate ?
	♥ 11:14pm Ken From Hyde Park: I like Super Dave Osborne's mantra: balloon ball, balloon ball.
	♥ 11:16pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:11 right. that's one kind of meditation. my aunt used to stare at a flame to meditate. (pretty obvious, right?) but transcendental is the opposite. you're supposed to focus on NOTHING. which is why you get a mantra that's kind of like a word, but not an actual word. so it's just a sound. and by repeating it over and over your mind should become at least somewhat devoid of thoughts; because you're focussing on something that means nothing.
	♥ 11:17pm coelacanth∅: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:16 (and that's why you specifically DON'T use music with t.m.)
	♥ 11:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:16 I just focused on breath going in & out. I did use a Xian mantra for a bit when I thot I was still a Xian. But this was admittedly long long ago. Closest I've come since is the guided meditations on Audio Dharma. 'Meditation works ...but only if you do it.'
	11:21pm ViolaChica: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:16 I've done that as well. Sri Dharma Mittra used to lead meditation that way after his yoga class. It left an imprint in my mind's eye of light -- a constant reminder subconsciously. The experience of tuning into the detail of a flickering flame was impactful as well.
	11:21pm slabengraver: Les Disques Bongo Joe Records... nice
	♥ 11:22pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:19 yes...breath. -so there's a very fine line between meditation and yoga. (and tai chi chuan) ... 'Meditation works ...but only if you do it.' - that's why it doesn't work for me!
	♥ 11:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They make the point there ...any task you do - you consider which tool to use first. But when it comes to our philosophy, our thinking, our perception & our happiness - we don't do that. Cause the 'tool' is ourselves. Meditating might be the most constructive thing anyone can do...
	♥ 11:25pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ViolaChica @11:21 i guess i've done it - without the intention to meditate! i also have spent many hours staring at a REALLY BIG flame...throughout elementary school, staring at the sun through the windows! ...meditation?
	♥ 11:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I mean - I think HeartyWhite is like AudioDharma ! Only more fun...
	♥ 11:30pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ Song: "Trans-Atlantyk (Gitarr: Daniel Gylling Kacz)" by ... I like this.
	♥ 11:31pm WoodsOfMaine: A year or so ago I saw a video with this bearded guy, British, talking about TM techniques and how you didn’t really have to pay for the supposed training. I have to say that once I picked a mantra that didn’t make my brain formulate more thought, I found the whole thing very effective. And free!! Great show Jonathan.
	♥ 11:35pm San Pedro Girl: Very good show tonight, Jonathan.
	♥ 11:36pm WoodsOfMaine: Nobody at the French Open drinks Bud Light.
	11:36pm slabengraver: I wonder if rugby fans get like that (the gentlemanly sport)
	♥ 11:38pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ slabengraver @11:36 I don’t recall rugby ever being called a gentlemen’s sport. It isn’t like cricket.
	♥ 11:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @11:31 definitely. if, or when, you can find that mantra it should work. they tell you you're the only person ever to have the mantra they give you; it's specifically yours, and very special...IT'S BASED ON YOUR BIRTHDAY! (that's why they tell you you must never tell anyone or even utter the mantra aloud.)
	11:39pm Jherweg: Glad you’re enjoying it .
	♥ 11:41pm coelacanth∅: i'd bet more than once a chess table has been knocked over in a childish rage!
	♥ 11:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Story from an associate of TheBeatles about going to India - & getting Mantras from the Maharishi. It's supposed to be unique to you & you should never tell anyone. Well - they finally compared later - & their 'Mantras' were the same...
	11:43pm morphe': Who let the Herweg OUT????!!!!!??? TWWEETTTEEETWWWEETWEEET TWWWEEEEETTEEWEEETTTT TWEEET
	♥ 11:44pm Carita: Hey thanks for a great show tonight!!!!
	♥ 11:45pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ San Pedro Girl @11:38 Thank you Jonathan!
	♥ 11:45pm coelacanth∅: ...i'm a little disappointed to find out here, now, on this comments board that the stupidbowl is happening. ...so close to it coming and going without my knowledge of it.
	11:46pm Sunny: doldrums evening. frequent listener, rare commenter. i might have to give up one of my dogs and i am super depressed. thanks for the tunes and community. need it tonight.
	11:46pm morphe': ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:45 To have missed naught is to have missed naught ...
	♥ 11:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Sunny @11:46 Condolences. Love is just love despite species I think.
	♥ 11:47pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:43 yes...and not to say it doesn't work; it does. but there's a lot of bullshit involved, for the love (small L) of money.
	11:47pm Sunny: it's a tough situation. i agree. my heart
	♥ 11:47pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ Sunny @11:46 I’m sorry.
	11:48pm Jherweg: Oh man that’s rough so sorry. Virtual hugs.
	11:48pm Sunny: thank you. she's a great dog.
	11:49pm morphe': ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:47 I signed in on the nfl sequence and missed the "..to love or not to love segemnt..???" Looking for the morphine...
	♥ 11:49pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Sunny @11:46 aw,shit. i'm sad for your situation. it sucks. stay strong.
	♥ 11:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:47 Just seems beyond ironic to me. It's the most available thing in the world - to sit & still your own mind. & no one can do it for you. That you should become a follower or a customer ...I mean - someone could legitimately guide you along. Anyway...
	♥ 11:51pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:50 agree.
	11:53pm Sunny: it's a housing issue, and i already have a dog. she started as a foster that was returned to me after i found her a home. then another home for her fell through. then i just accepted her into my life... then i got evicted and forced to find new housing on the east coast (I'm in CA), and it's all just too much. anyway, i feel heartless even entertaining the idea of shuffling her off, but
	11:53pm Sunny: thanks for the tunes. really.
	11:54pm Jherweg: My pleasure ! Thanks for listening everyone and for all the kind words!
	♥ 11:55pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ Sunny @11:53 I’m hoping you’ll find a solution.
	11:55pm Sunny: thank you
	11:55pm ViolaChica: Thanks for the great show. Good luck with your meditation this week.
	♥ 11:55pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ Song: "Through Impossible Light" by "Steven R Smith" <3
	11:56pm morphe': ↳ Sunny @11:53 I'd say there is help for the hound ... East or West ... I am leaving these shores, but Ican but ya in touch with good nyc folks who can help ... go to my fmu page on the clicky and I'll write ys back...
	♥ 11:56pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Sunny @11:53 time is probably what you need. precious time.
	♥ 11:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, JH.
	11:57pm morphe': Tjhanks JH and all..
	11:57pm Sunny: ↳ morphe' @11:56 i just sent you a request to contact me back. thank you.
	♥ 11:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JH ~
	♥ 11:59pm San Pedro Girl: Blurry pals, take care.
	♥ 12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Jonathan
	9:36am freya: I think Devin Waldman is Anne Waldman's nephew, not her son. Thanks for the show!

Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg: Playlist from February 9, 2025

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February 9, 2025: A Detrimental Lack Of Imagination - Painting "Dogshit Variations" by Michael Donnelly

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
	Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins				0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Richard Wolff	Occupy Your Mind "Occupy Your Mind" by "Richard Wolff"				0:01:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mary Clayton	Gimme Shelter (isolated vocal)			https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g-0ROTs5MA	0:01:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jairus Sharif	Bear Witness "Bear Witness" by "Jairus Sharif"	Basis Of Unity	Telephone Explosion	https://jairussharif.bandcamp.com/album/basis-of-unity	0:01:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Schatterau	Wasserspiel "Wasserspiel" by "Schatterau"	Übers Jahr	Hands in the Dark	https://schatterau.bandcamp.com	0:11:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Luciana Bass	Voces de Violeta "Voces de Violeta" by "Luciana Bass"	Desatornillándonos	Relative Pitch Records	https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/desatornill-ndonos	0:14:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Devin Brahja Waldman	Movements of the Mind	Nebulizer	Cortizona	https://brahjawaldman.bandcamp.com/album/nebulizer-2	0:17:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gas	Gas 1 "Gas 1" by "Gas"	Nah und Fern	Kompakt		0:36:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Anna Von Hausswolff	Theatre of Nature	All Thoughts Fly	Southern Lord	https://annavonhausswolffsl.bandcamp.com/album/all-thoughts-fly	0:37:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Slavoj Žižek	Obsessed With The End			https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c5Gootl1iGc	0:43:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Henrik Meierkord	String Drone Adagio V	String Drone Adagios	Imaginary North	https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/string-drone-adagios	0:44:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Trevor Mathison	Excerpt Side A "Excerpt Side A" by "Trevor Mathison"	From Signal to Decay: Volume 5	Purge XXX	https://purgexxx.bandcamp.com/album/from-signal-to-decay-volume-5	0:48:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ultramarine	Winter Circle "Winter Circle" by "Ultramarine"	Ghosts of Christmas Past (remake)	Les Disques du Crepuscule		0:56:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gas	Gas 1 "Gas 1" by "Gas"	Nah und Fern	Kompakt		1:00:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
C-Schulz	Meister "Meister" by "C-Schulz"	Hose Horn	Unseen Worlds		1:06:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Société Étrange	COKE "COKE" by "Société Étrange"	Au Revoir	Les Disques Bongo Joe	https://societeetrange.bandcamp.com	1:16:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sediment	Keep Out (Dead Inside) "Keep Out (Dead Inside)" by "Sediment"	Holding The Pendulum	Chondritic Sound		1:23:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kroppskännedom	Trans-Atlantyk (Gitarr: Daniel Gylling Kacz)	Aktivt Förfall	Ny Kosmisk Väg	https://kroppskannedom.bandcamp.com/album/aktivt-f-rfall	1:25:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gas	Gas 1 "Gas 1" by "Gas"	Nah und Fern	Kompakt		1:33:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nils Quak	Placentershock "Placentershock" by "Nils Quak"	Privat	Econore	https://econore.bandcamp.com/album/privat	1:36:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Max Davies	Invention 7 "Invention 7" by "Max Davies"	Inventions For Broken And Prepared Guitar			1:42:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sophia Djebel Rose	La Louve "La Louve" by "Sophia Djebel Rose"	Métempsycose	Oracle Records	https://sophiadjebelrose.bandcamp.com/album/m-tempsycose-2	1:43:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peter Gizzi	Ecstatic Joy And It's Variants	Speech Acts For A Dying World	Students of Decay	https://studentsofdecay.bandcamp.com/album/speech-acts-for-a-dying-world	1:48:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Steven R Smith	Through Impossible Light	Triecade	Worstward Recordings	https://worstward.bandcamp.com/album/triecade	1:50:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chicago Underground Quartet	Three In The Morning	Chicago Underground Quartet	Thrill Jockey		1:55:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 恭喜發財 🐍 Gōngxǐ Fācái ! 🐍 'Keep that line Serpentine.' - JulianCope
	♥ 10:00pm Scott_Oz: G'day Jonathan & Blurred Boundaries! 🌏🌞🩴🩴🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 10:03pm Carita: Hey it's blurred time!!!!
	♥ 10:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: Tax the 1%!
	10:06pm HyperDose: SO obscured! 😵‍💫
	10:08pm Jherweg: Howdy gang!
	♥ 10:09pm San Pedro Girl: Hi Jonathan and all!
	🎙 ♥ 10:14pm Ike: Sounding good! However, "Imagination-Painting" is not a word, dude. That little tiny dash needs to be two dashes, and even better, you could use a space before and after the two dashes. Then it would be readable.
	🎙 ♥ 10:16pm Ike: Right now the title of the show is basically A Detrimental Lack of ImaginationPainting "Dogshit Variations" by Michael Donnelly, which is just gibberish. Cool painting though!
	10:18pm Jherweg: Use your imagination Ike and just pretend that it’s the way you need it to be.
	🎙 ♥ 10:20pm Ike: I hold you to high standards because I love ya! I expect more of you than anti-intellectualism of the kind we get from our enemies, and total disrespect for language and clarity.
	♥ 10:24pm Fuzzy: ↳ Song: "Gimme Shelter (isolated vocal)" by "Mary Clayton" Merry Clayton and a whack New Year!
	♥ 10:29pm WallCharger360: Hi Jonathan & listeners
	10:30pm ViolaChica: Cullan sitting here plunking out F minor on the piano saying this piece playing right now is decidely in F minor. Don't shoot the messenger, just sayin'
	10:31pm ViolaChica: Thanks for moving him to play btw.
	10:34pm Soloidus: @ViolaChica what are Cullan's thoughts on playing Bach on the piano with pedal?
	10:34pm Soloidus: ↳ Fuzzy @10:24 believe she was WAY pregnant when she recorded that
	10:36pm misterdavid: Merry was in Los Angeles, sleeping, I think.
	10:36pm CLOUDYJ: Thanks for not liking football! A weapon of mass distraction. Boo on bullies!
	♥ 10:37pm Fuzzy: ↳ misterdavid @10:36 I believe the Stones called her up at like 2 AM Keef Standard Time.
	10:39pm slabengraver: Was never a football fan particularly but seeing how it brings strangers together is pretty neat
	10:39pm ViolaChica: ↳ Soloidus @10:34 He says --- Bach is timeless and Bach is great on the harmonica. On piano, pedal is a device of tone not of blurr, so of course always pedal on the piano.
	10:41pm ViolaChica: ↳ ViolaChica @10:39 He continued -- Bach himself grabbed previously written music and rewrote it for different instrument combinations when he was running out of time for a gig. It makes no difference what instrument you are playing it on it is pure music.
	10:41pm Jherweg: f minor is what I got in most of my college papers.
	10:41pm ViolaChica: ↳ Soloidus @10:34 He also says as an aside jokingly never ever play Beethoven on the harpsichord (lol)
	10:42pm ViolaChica: ↳ Jherweg @10:41 HAHAHAHAHAH! My brother always said, D is for DONE
	♥ 10:46pm Carita: Good mix tonight
	♥ 10:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "Gimme Shelter (isolated vocal)" by "Mary Clayton" 20 Feet From Stardom had a piece on Merry Clayton — www.imdb.com...
	10:49pm Soloidus: ↳ ViolaChica @10:41 Thanks @ViolaChica! I'm a "purist" (or "tool") and tend not to use pedal but Cullan's thoughts may change my mind!
	♥ 10:53pm Carita: Love this type of sounds
	10:53pm slabengraver: I wonder what Žižek thinks of youtube shorts
	11:04pm slabengraver: I love vipassana meditation 👍 breath focused
	11:04pm ViolaChica: We love you!!!
	♥ 11:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I've liked the west coast Buddhist podcast Audio Dharma. They've looked into this stuff for a few thousand years already... But if you want - Meditation can certainly be the most solitary thing in the world. & you can start anywhere & anyplace & anytime. Just focus on your breath. The mind will drift. That is noise. If you get uptight or judgmental about the noise - that's more noise. So just return to the center. & focus on your breath again. No doctrine - no payments. It's all yours.
	11:07pm ViolaChica: ↳ slabengraver @11:04 I was thinking the same as @JHerweg was talking. I have always wanted to go to a 10 day session. Was thinking about this movie too (fyi @jherweg) -- www.youtube.com...
	♥ 11:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If it's not assisting your Liberation - it's not real Buddhism. That might be one way of considering it.
	♥ 11:09pm muckgeist: Step 1: Become present, but not be sure what that means. Step 2: Stop fighting discomfort and suffering. Step 3: Suffer just as much as before, but have a calm expression on your face.
	♥ 11:09pm coelacanth∅: you don't have to pay for t.m.; but if you choose your mantra yourself you're more likely to choose one that doesn't work for you, because you'll have some sort of connection to it.
	♥ 11:09pm coelacanth∅: (that's my theory. i just made it up.)
	♥ 11:11pm coelacanth∅: Jonathan if you're looking for good background music for meditation (not t.m.) Jacob Kirkegaard (sp?) has an album called "4 rooms" that might be very good for that.
	♥ 11:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Anything you focus on - even an image of the Buddha - is just somewhere to hang your attention like you hang your hat on a hook. It's all idols - so know where the idol is - precisely to knock it off the pedastal.
	♥ 11:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Music is the thing that comes closest to the profundity of Silence. But why have Music when you Meditate ?
	♥ 11:14pm Ken From Hyde Park: I like Super Dave Osborne's mantra: balloon ball, balloon ball.
	♥ 11:16pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:11 right. that's one kind of meditation. my aunt used to stare at a flame to meditate. (pretty obvious, right?) but transcendental is the opposite. you're supposed to focus on NOTHING. which is why you get a mantra that's kind of like a word, but not an actual word. so it's just a sound. and by repeating it over and over your mind should become at least somewhat devoid of thoughts; because you're focussing on something that means nothing.
	♥ 11:17pm coelacanth∅: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:16 (and that's why you specifically DON'T use music with t.m.)
	♥ 11:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:16 I just focused on breath going in & out. I did use a Xian mantra for a bit when I thot I was still a Xian. But this was admittedly long long ago. Closest I've come since is the guided meditations on Audio Dharma. 'Meditation works ...but only if you do it.'
	11:21pm ViolaChica: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:16 I've done that as well. Sri Dharma Mittra used to lead meditation that way after his yoga class. It left an imprint in my mind's eye of light -- a constant reminder subconsciously. The experience of tuning into the detail of a flickering flame was impactful as well.
	11:21pm slabengraver: Les Disques Bongo Joe Records... nice
	♥ 11:22pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:19 yes...breath. -so there's a very fine line between meditation and yoga. (and tai chi chuan) ... 'Meditation works ...but only if you do it.' - that's why it doesn't work for me!
	♥ 11:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They make the point there ...any task you do - you consider which tool to use first. But when it comes to our philosophy, our thinking, our perception & our happiness - we don't do that. Cause the 'tool' is ourselves. Meditating might be the most constructive thing anyone can do...
	♥ 11:25pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ViolaChica @11:21 i guess i've done it - without the intention to meditate! i also have spent many hours staring at a REALLY BIG flame...throughout elementary school, staring at the sun through the windows! ...meditation?
	♥ 11:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I mean - I think HeartyWhite is like AudioDharma ! Only more fun...
	♥ 11:30pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ Song: "Trans-Atlantyk (Gitarr: Daniel Gylling Kacz)" by ... I like this.
	♥ 11:31pm WoodsOfMaine: A year or so ago I saw a video with this bearded guy, British, talking about TM techniques and how you didn’t really have to pay for the supposed training. I have to say that once I picked a mantra that didn’t make my brain formulate more thought, I found the whole thing very effective. And free!! Great show Jonathan.
	♥ 11:35pm San Pedro Girl: Very good show tonight, Jonathan.
	♥ 11:36pm WoodsOfMaine: Nobody at the French Open drinks Bud Light.
	11:36pm slabengraver: I wonder if rugby fans get like that (the gentlemanly sport)
	♥ 11:38pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ slabengraver @11:36 I don’t recall rugby ever being called a gentlemen’s sport. It isn’t like cricket.
	♥ 11:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @11:31 definitely. if, or when, you can find that mantra it should work. they tell you you're the only person ever to have the mantra they give you; it's specifically yours, and very special...IT'S BASED ON YOUR BIRTHDAY! (that's why they tell you you must never tell anyone or even utter the mantra aloud.)
	11:39pm Jherweg: Glad you’re enjoying it .
	♥ 11:41pm coelacanth∅: i'd bet more than once a chess table has been knocked over in a childish rage!
	♥ 11:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Story from an associate of TheBeatles about going to India - & getting Mantras from the Maharishi. It's supposed to be unique to you & you should never tell anyone. Well - they finally compared later - & their 'Mantras' were the same...
	11:43pm morphe': Who let the Herweg OUT????!!!!!??? TWWEETTTEEETWWWEETWEEET TWWWEEEEETTEEWEEETTTT TWEEET
	♥ 11:44pm Carita: Hey thanks for a great show tonight!!!!
	♥ 11:45pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ San Pedro Girl @11:38 Thank you Jonathan!
	♥ 11:45pm coelacanth∅: ...i'm a little disappointed to find out here, now, on this comments board that the stupidbowl is happening. ...so close to it coming and going without my knowledge of it.
	11:46pm Sunny: doldrums evening. frequent listener, rare commenter. i might have to give up one of my dogs and i am super depressed. thanks for the tunes and community. need it tonight.
	11:46pm morphe': ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:45 To have missed naught is to have missed naught ...
	♥ 11:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Sunny @11:46 Condolences. Love is just love despite species I think.
	♥ 11:47pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:43 yes...and not to say it doesn't work; it does. but there's a lot of bullshit involved, for the love (small L) of money.
	11:47pm Sunny: it's a tough situation. i agree. my heart
	♥ 11:47pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ Sunny @11:46 I’m sorry.
	11:48pm Jherweg: Oh man that’s rough so sorry. Virtual hugs.
	11:48pm Sunny: thank you. she's a great dog.
	11:49pm morphe': ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:47 I signed in on the nfl sequence and missed the "..to love or not to love segemnt..???" Looking for the morphine...
	♥ 11:49pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Sunny @11:46 aw,shit. i'm sad for your situation. it sucks. stay strong.
	♥ 11:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:47 Just seems beyond ironic to me. It's the most available thing in the world - to sit & still your own mind. & no one can do it for you. That you should become a follower or a customer ...I mean - someone could legitimately guide you along. Anyway...
	♥ 11:51pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:50 agree.
	11:53pm Sunny: it's a housing issue, and i already have a dog. she started as a foster that was returned to me after i found her a home. then another home for her fell through. then i just accepted her into my life... then i got evicted and forced to find new housing on the east coast (I'm in CA), and it's all just too much. anyway, i feel heartless even entertaining the idea of shuffling her off, but
	11:53pm Sunny: thanks for the tunes. really.
	11:54pm Jherweg: My pleasure ! Thanks for listening everyone and for all the kind words!
	♥ 11:55pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ Sunny @11:53 I’m hoping you’ll find a solution.
	11:55pm Sunny: thank you
	11:55pm ViolaChica: Thanks for the great show. Good luck with your meditation this week.
	♥ 11:55pm San Pedro Girl: ↳ Song: "Through Impossible Light" by "Steven R Smith" <3
	11:56pm morphe': ↳ Sunny @11:53 I'd say there is help for the hound ... East or West ... I am leaving these shores, but Ican but ya in touch with good nyc folks who can help ... go to my fmu page on the clicky and I'll write ys back...
	♥ 11:56pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Sunny @11:53 time is probably what you need. precious time.
	♥ 11:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, JH.
	11:57pm morphe': Tjhanks JH and all..
	11:57pm Sunny: ↳ morphe' @11:56 i just sent you a request to contact me back. thank you.
	♥ 11:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JH ~
	♥ 11:59pm San Pedro Girl: Blurry pals, take care.
	♥ 12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Jonathan
	9:36am freya: I think Devin Waldman is Anne Waldman's nephew, not her son. Thanks for the show!

Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg: Playlist from February 9, 2025

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