Plum Village Band - Little Star - Ft. Born I and Brother Phap Huu
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- Опубліковано 19 лют 2023
- Words by Thich Nhat Hanh. Music by Sister Hieu Duc. Rap by Born I (www.bornimusic.com) Recorded at Plum Village, France in summer 2022.
LYRICS
"Today the kingdom of Heaven
Held a festival for thousands of stars
I went up to that kingdom
Knelt down and prayed
That the anguish, the killing, the disaster
In our poor land would end.”
Where have you been, little star?
I’ve been looking for you everywhere
Out of my window among the dark clouds
Where have you been, little star?
I feel so forlorn
Like a small bird lost on a foggy island
It has been raining for nights
Late night on the sidewalk
I see the silhouettes of lonely, wet forms
I’ve tried to call your image
From deep in my consciousness
While the rain and the wind continue to rage
Tonight as I bend over my desk
My head in my two hands
The wind has carried all the clouds away
The sky is clear
The rain has stopped longing for your call
I’m surprised to see you there
You have returned
Little star!
[Rap]
I’ve been looking at the stars in the distance
I’ve been looking in my heart for resistance
I’ve been searching in the self for existence
all alone by myself Reminiscent
underneath the Bodhi tree but it isn’t only me
you and I collective energy how it’s s’posed to be
I hope to be the ocean tide With my spirit open wide standing on a mountain top see the world with open eyes
I was so surprised
to know that I’m a part of this
Sunrise sunset
rain clouds all of it
The journey of awakening taking it with one step
one breath
save all beings till there’s none left
Suffering is painful
but I’m still the same fool
searching for the river
while I’m swimming in the same pool
Maybe we can find it
keep the light shining
walking on the path of ancestors behind me
If you could be the person
who you are in your heart
would you grow a little bit
or would you play a bigger part
Love is a paintbrush
life is the biggest art
and I’m still the same kid
wishing on a little star
Where have you been, little star?
I’ve been looking for you everywhere
Out of my window among the dark clouds
Where have you been, little star?
I feel so forlorn
Like a small bird lost on a foggy island
It has been raining for nights
Late night on the sidewalk
I see the silhouettes of lonely, wet forms
I’ve tried to call your image
From deep in my consciousness
While the rain and the wind continue to rage
Dear little star
You have been through such storms, rain, and wind
For how long and on what strange land have you been weeping?
You’ve come back
Your little body, still shivers will cold
With tears in your eyes
You recalled
You’ve been praying for our homeland
Your voice has reached the stars
transformed to teardrops
Trembling in the air
I’m sending deep thanks to
Countless little stars
With diamond-strong faith
You are like flowers, blooming everywhere
My little star, you are back home
With tears in my eyes
I call your name
And feel the warmth in my heart
Thich Nhat Hanh's poem published in Call Me by my True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press, 2022): plumvillage.org/books/call-me...
Credits:
Lyrics written by: Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Rap lyrics written by: Born I
Singer/Songwriter: Sr Hieu Duc
Backing Vocals: Br Phap Huu, Sr Hien Tam, Sr Hieu Duc, Born I
Rap: Br Phap Huu, Born I
Bass: Robbie Campbell
Drums: Br Thien Y
Violin: Sr Trai Nghiem
Cello: Br Phap Linh
Music Production: Br Niem Thuan
Video: Br Duc Tru
Video Editing: Br Duc Tru, Sr Hien Tam, Sr Hieu Duc
Please participate in supporting Thich Nhat Hanh’s community and legacy at: plumvillage.org/support
Another beautiful Dharma door. Thank you so much for melding the traditional with the modern. Wonderful!
This just makes me smile❤ and grateful these beautiful people exist among the chaos of our times.
Whomever reads this:
May you be happy
May you be healthy
May you be safe
May you have peace and ease of well being …
Sending metta✌️💗🙏🏼
🙏💫thank you 💗
I think Thay is smiling now, as l am listening your song 💕
Thank you 🙏🎶
Yes, Thay is smiling now.
Yes Yes Yes❤❤❤
How beautiful! Tears of Joy and Happiness running down my face. My we all find Our True Homes at the Source. Bowing deeply to all
❤
This song really got me today 😭😭 deep gratitude for the monastics and Born I 🙏🥲💕
Dear Brothers and Sisters of my heart How lucky I have been to find this beautiful Sangha! Thanks you for all !
❤ “love is the paintbrush, life is the biggest art” ❤
I found myself crying like a child ...this poem reflects so well what many of ys have been feeling over the last months. Thank you brothers and sisters, you are the stars indeed
Beautiful. Keep up the great work Plum Village Band! You guys are such a blessing to the Sangha body far and wide.
I see monks and nuns life is a happy life. Lots to accomplish 👍❤️
Moved to tears by the beauty shining through every word, voice, every instrument played with love and your total harmony.Thank you 🙏
This was one of the most affirming things I’ve ever seen, I am a musician practicing in the Ajahn Cha tradition and I often feel a failure for not giving up music. Thank you for doing this.
Surprising, authentic, beautiful 😍 complimenti 💚🧡💙🙏
Such sweet female voices. The mixing with the male ones made it unique, loved it.
It’s so so so wonderful. It’s really a pure land. Sis and brother are 👍👍👍
Mindful music with some absolute legends!
Watch the PV band perform songs like this live, with other music, meditations and short teachings at events on a special fundraising tour of the United States and Canada in April-May 2023:
US
21st April, Baltimore, MD
23rd April, Washington D.C.
30th April, Boston, MA
Canada
2nd May, Toronto, Canada (www.eventbrite.com/e/the-way-out-is-in-an-evening-of-meditation-music-poetry-tickets-528566044267?aff=ebdssbdestsearch)
Tickets available for USA events from February 28th here: plumvillage.org/retreats/info/mindful-music-spoken-word-event/
Dear Thay dear sangha, how beautiful this music are. In gratitude 🙏🏼
Beautiful.
Thank you
Stunning!
The children and I enjoyed your performance very much. It was deeply moving. Thank you dear friends. ❤🙏❤
i. love this. not Br. Phap Huu RAPPING! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 thay says when many mental formations are trying to form at once, play music!!! you keep thay alive! and inspire us all to do the same 😌🙏🏾
Thanks Plum Village Band for this sweet gift! :-)
Beautiful
Surprised, not surprised. Beautiful creativity will take us to the other shore. Well done Brothers and Sisters, what an inspiration and a joy.🙏
Please Do a studio version of “live this day with Love”!
Magnifaïque ❤️
Oh wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much everyone, your beautiful music warmed my heart. 🙏🙏❤️❤️
Thank you so much! 🙏🙏🙏
I like Thay's and your song.
Dear Sisters and Brothers, it is Very current ,good job ,thanks for share ,I am Happy listen to you ,from Catalonia
#PhapHuu Much Peace & Joy to You.🎼🕯🧡What a beautiful Coming Together🎶🌍🎶 #LoveYOUAllSOMuch! "LOVE is our Paint BRUSH" #LittleStar#ThankYouDearBrother
Wonderful! Thank you.
Beautiful! So glad to see this professionally recorded after hearing it on the Wake Up retreat
beautiful! it gives me joy to see the sangha making music & celebrating life. thay is smiling through all of us.
So lovely and meaningful. Thank you for sharing your gifts.
So sweet and beautiful. Thank you 😊!.
Gorgeous music and collaboration and movement and spirit. Thank you so much for sharing.
Wa! I don't expect this from you guys. Exceptionally good 👍🏻 and very touching ❤️
Thank you Plum village
Thank you Shanga 😊
Wonderful, impressive & deeply touching music and words .Thank you!!!💮💜✨
My 3 year old niece asks me to play this song every time I visit and we sing together 🙏🏽
Très beau !
Superbe ce mélange des genres...Merci beaucoup pour ce partage et tous ces messages...🌟❣
Such a wonderful collaboration!!! Thank you Thầy, all brothers and sisters!!! 🥰❤
So beautiful and cool! Love this collaboration 🤗🙌♥️🙌And the joyfulness at the end!🙏✌️💚🌲🎨☀️🌞Many thanks🙏
I enjoyed this so much,
You all did such a beautiful job with this
This is so beautiful ❤
Simple, beautiful, sweet and lovely... authentic ❤️
Beautiful ❤
Oh, YES, ... Wonderfull ! Thank You very Much ! 💛🙏💜🙏💛
wow this is wonderful. I can't image a song with well mixed Ancient Asian flavors, classical instruments and rap!
❤🙏 deeply touched, thank you.
I loooove this wow!!
Wouah , wouah,wouaaaaaaaaah ! So beautiful, brothers and sisters !!! Gratitude !
deliberately abandonning netfix for sometime and music with unwholesome seeds...i found this playing on my computor by itself...very touching and very refreshing, I am so glad it was a long song too!...with Metta to the monastics!
😊 Bliss 🪷 Thank you for this wonderful gift ✨
Merci. C'est magnifique.
Vous êtes la continuation de Thay qui a su faire évoluer le Zen pour le bonheur de tous et toutes.
Gratitude infinie à vous tous, chère Sangha.
Gratitude infinie, cher Thay. Vous avez changé ma vie ! Et restez bien présent dans mon cœur et mon esprit 🙏🌻
Thank you
I know what love is now❤❤❤❤❤
Surely Thay is smiling upon you. ❤️
Awesome! I love it. 🙏🏼❤🎶
beautiful voices and music . Love the lyrics too!
Love all the voices. The rap made for an nice contrast from the angelic female voices
I love your creativity and joy! Wonderful song! Thank you so much me friends!
Like the rap parts, so cool!!
Fantastic!. Excellent lyrics, music composition same instrumental as female and male voices mixed up in different styles. Creative inspiring and beautiful. Well done to all members in the band!. Thank you ❤!
Surprising, beautiful and heart warming! Thanks you so much, dear brothers and sisters 🙏🌟😊
Great performance!!! I could never image that how RAP could be so perfectly merged into the peaceful music of Buddism!!! Thanks for showing the unlimited joint of different types of music and for the internal flame you raise to all by this song.
Bài hát quá hay!!! Tôi chưa bao giờ có thể nghĩ rằng giai điệu RAP có thể hoà hợp xuất sắc đến như vậy với âm nhạc yên bình của đạo Phật. Xin tri ân đã cho tất cả chúng tôi thấy không giới hạn nào có thể ngăn được sự kết hợp giữa các thể loại âm nhạc. Bài hát đã thắp lên ngọn lửa ấm áp trong mỗi chúng tôi!!!
Wonderful,you are all the best . 南无本师释迦牟尼佛❤
So unique! ❤️
Holy Wow! I'm so happy my sangha friend shared this beautiful compilation with me. It's lovely and fresh - and touches my heart in so many ways. Thank you!
Simply beautiful... Peace and blessings to every one of you involved. Namaste, Om Shanti 🕊🙏💜
Peace ✌️ and much love 🖤, love is the paintbrush and life is the art
Ty adores it with all of his Heart 💜♾️🙏
Stunningly beautiful.
I Love this Song........🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Can we give a 👍 thumb up for this? 👍💚💚🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😍
It's beautiful song with all sweet voices of you. Thank you so much and I'm so grateful to you guys 🙏🙏💌
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Thank you Sisters and Brothers🥰
Thank you for watering our zen dancing seeds, with gratitude ;-)
That was amazingly beautiful surprising and slightly funny hearing a bit of rapping.
I'll need to listen again.
Wow! Amazing!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Peace and blessings to all. 🙏
How sweet. Voice and text❤ Bless you all at Plum Village and all of good will 🙏🏻💖🕉️
How beautiful!. I am keeping this. Thank you so much 💓 🙏🥀💜
This is it! I feel so blessed knowing that Thay continuing blossom beautifully
Beautiful song. It watered the seeds of love, compassion and understanding in me. Thank you as always plum village.
Fantastic!
A Lotus for you Dear Sangha,
This is Beautiful… Little Star.. Thay’s continuation..
Thank you for your heartfelt music
🪷🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️
Beautiful & completely enchanting. ☀️💚🌱✨
So beautiful.....Thank you all so much.
🙏🧡🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🙏
Thank you angels of God
Thank you for your time, effort, and patience in creating and sharing this wonderful experience. May this act of kindness benefit all beings through the insight of inter- connectedness of all. 😊
Love you Little Star! See you in Deer Park! 🔥❤🔥
oh mille mercis !! j'adore 🙏🙏❤❤thank you so much amazing🌞🌞🙏🙏
Thank you . Twinkle, twinkle little star.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Am going through a difficult time with my partner slowly dying
The Plum Village Band, the Sangha and especially work like this fills my heart and gives me great comfort
Thank you 🙏🌈
wonderful
Oh great! We should make a Vietnamese verson of this song.
Ich bin gerührt über diese wunderbare Musik. Ihr seid großartig. Und Thay wäre stolz auf euch. In Liebe und mit einer tiefen Verbeugung. Simone
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