1. |
Intro (Sankalpa)
02:15
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just a maverick speaking his mind
sat nav on the atlas never could find
this little blip on the map until I spit you these raps
and on these tracks you'll surmise just a piece of my life
hail from Christchurch, place that nurtured my birth
and where I used to reside but now the city is cursed
you see poseidon
stuck his mighty trident in the dirt and made the earth come alive
and now the city is dying
and insidious minds are on the rise and the shittiest vibe
is what I find, suicide crisis taking numerous lives
they just be losing their minds and now my homies are dying
and I am crying
but through the stress and the mess there is a blessing
the Wangapeka centre I'm forever indebted
With the breath as my tether I see the depths of my fetters
They be embedded and netted in repetitive sentences in the back of my head
with peace and acceptance I see I cease to abet it
just release and forget it and see annicca is prevalent
no endeavour to be better just see clear
and penetrate deep states
till each letter of each sentence that this being'll be penning
will be blessings or teach lessons or be as a means to relieve tension
you're seeing the seed of my deep intention, if beings need healing I'll heed with attention
this pen'll be bleeding till beings see freedom
it's never depleted I'm never receding
and i'm just saying aspirations
but if I can take my pain and my grace and be creative
and offer it, in the midst of constant ponderings
then maybe there's a mate who relates and finds some solace
And on a good day, maybe it could stimulate
a bit of contemplation, create a state of straight amazement
then I could say that I'm pleased I went and made it
and laid these tracks down and gave away them for the taking.
Dharma Dan.
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2. |
Knock Knock
02:43
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let's see now you're missing all the magic
just tip your cap and let me get a crack at it
valiant and eloquently mammoth to average
and the games gonna change when it's slapped with my tactics
I'm
back in the city and spitting shit slicker than slick rick or biggy
abound in this vicinity
level of profound that astounds without a tinny
so let me get busy on the beat
it's like
sigmund freud fell out of his void
and made a choice to see the world in a new discourse
The bab as an artist imparting the path for martyrs
and crafting a raft for artists to uncover where their heart is
and as hard as it is to see past the art of masterful Dan just beating on his chest
you'll see i'm ripping off the flesh to uncover a heart
it's a new start, in the legacy of martyrdom
spitting prophecy every time i'm on the beat
so every single minute is another premonition
and then every single syllable is part of spitting syllabus
and half the shit i spit is from my lid, not even written man
holy shit
keep on going for the thrill of it
and keep on showing everybody what it is I do with it
and I can keep spitting funky rhythm rhymes every night
till you decide that I'm the guy that you wanna vibe with
we can hit these blank canvases and magically adapt them into
something that could manage the masses
put the map on our back and still keep it relaxed
and we can freestyle jam or grab a pen and a pad
whatever
we do it better, endeavour to keep steadily pedalling
elevating to states of higher grace in the mindstate
rhymes that we vibe on a friday
shifting paradigms i know you feelin the fire
we got
10,000 hours empowering every ballad of prowess
that we pushing out deep from the belly
and coming out of the mouth and machiavelli himself
is bound to cower in the face of insurmountable power
I know you feeling me
I know you hearing this level of my pedigree
you know the games got a sedative of ketamine
and in the game there ain't a play a single step ahead of me
I got the beats to get the cheddar and the best of me
the recipe to keep me ripping raps to match incessantly
parked upon the mezzanine but passing past the level 3
and part and parcel of the art is blasting on the pedal gee
steady dripping with siddhis and straight sitting
the mission of indivisible living the state of witnessing
deepest volition as liminal apparitions flipping wicked
hitting switches and opening up the vision
are you with it
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3. |
Know Thyself
03:31
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Touchdown new in town ready to meet the prophets
telling my god i'd keep my promise, free my knowledge, beat the office
be the elite and leave the novice see deceit and peep the dogmas
went to sleep within my body, got evil on it
lets rewind the topic, back to college back to gossiping
about the box office and making popcorn profit
that's what the future offered, that was my plan
to make the dollars typing movie novels, i got the uni offer
packed my bags and sold the mazda left the sweetest goddess
the perfect beauty concept it left me lost and finding solace in the bottles
mackin' boobies just to get them topless. was macking prima donnas
and lacking movie honours
that shit was weak, i needed to find my own two feet
i needed to take a step away before i stepped into defeat
so i went to the retreat and learnt to close my eyes and breathe
and then i finally woke up from a twenty year sleep
and i
went back to tertiary to finish with my first degree
immersed to see hegemony that treats us like a nursery
by teaching us in cursory and keeps us from the industry
then uses us like mercenaries, corruption in the first degree
so touchdown here I am ready to peep the worlds design
got a job cutting vines to pay for more silent time
got my mates to talk jive, vapourise and keep me high
got a dame to fine dine so it's hard to find time
to ever free my mind and sit and leave the world behind
and mindfulness is slipping cause i'm always fucking tired
and preoccupied with thinking of corruptions of a normal life
and as it slowly brings me down i gotta open up my eyes
cause do i need it do i really freaking need it
was i deceived by the weed and do i need some leave to beat it
cause the devil and the system are ingrained and tightly weaved
and i'm defeated so i pack my bags and head for the retreat
Know yourself know yourself know yourself
If you don't know yourself you'll know nobody else
I contemplate my actions to cultivate compassion
When I understand my patterns my habits can adapt
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4. |
Doing The Work
03:45
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Doing the work stilling the mind see what arises see what I find
see the demise of a previous life that seeded its vibe in a heedless environment
it's deep intertwined I'm feeling the demons they creep in my spine
they keep me enticed by filling my mind with beautiful women and screens with lights
but I..... continue to breathe in the silence
If I release with deep intention tensions find no abiding
but with no tightness then what in this life defines me
and if that line can't be refined then maybe this me is a lie
Doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind....
I see Einstein and he redefined all space and time by visualising
riding on a light beam, and finding a way to describe it
that invited a paradigm shift, and I see it aligns with a similar vibe
from the great insight from breathing and smiling
and deeply abiding with states that arise
49 days Gautama remained till he came to the realisation
pain is created by craving, all states they change but we still chase stasis
crazy, will it ever abate and they say if I just stay patient
By doing the work and stilling the mind cessation leads to awakening
Doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind....
Peace permeates in a deepening state but my peeps in pain and I need to save them
caught everyday in a mad rat race and it needs to change and the earth is breaking
Tarchin, I ask ya, can we part from this path of disaster
Maybe you can, maybe you can't, maybe there ain't no answer
Maybe the question is vaster, the task is to just keep asking
If answers arise in the stillness of mind, that's the start of another inquiry
How's the need for change arising? And how does it intertwine?
Keep contemplating, see what you find and remember to meet it with kindness
right
Doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind see what arises
doing the work stilling the mind....
I see the mind is agitated these sensations lead to states of
fragmentation breaking concentration making concepts subject object
based on baseless context taking me on daydreams till I've lost the plot
I'm not awakening I just feel more agitated
wait
I've seen that it all takes shape, there's a way to break this cycle
shine a light invite more mindfulness till bliss makes the mind go quiet
silence
even just for a minute till volitions are diminished but they seem to never finish
i just see them as a ripple or I catch them once they've risen
and it's pulled me to division yet again
That's fine with me, could fight for weeks, now I just smile and breathe
And if I don't identify me with fleeting dreams then I can see release
and I feel finally free
And I can be.... and I can breathe
And it's damn fantastic, I am the planet, I am the atoms
I am the act of big bang expanding
I can not add or subtract from that
ain't crap that's lacking, I'm back
*bong*
what's that saying time is up
it's been a whole month but I'm just getting started
I ain't ready to depart yet please
don't send me to the city when I've just begun
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5. |
City Folk
03:11
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Fuck I love this place man
It's the greatest, God has graced us
Anything I want I can cop for a fee
Out for a feed and we gon' get wasted
Snap my fingers at a waitress
She can't say shit, she needs the paycheck
Anything I don't eat goes straight to wastage
Once I snap that pic for my Facebook
wait..... great
put that on my front page
so my facebook mates can like my fine taste
'Bing' I can't hear what you say
cause my phone just rang with a snap from my mate
ooh he just backchat that with a snapchat with his snapback cap backwards
hashtag something average
i'ma show him get into my camera
wait, were you talking to me?
just a minute, gotta read this tweet
oh that's crazy
that's my man Jaime
oh that's so sweet
would you look at this shit man it's all about me
gotta update my status, instagram this
just you wait I'll be right back at ya
oh.. hold on... wait.. just a minute..
Living with the city folk
Fucking love this place man
It's so great that I'm on medication
rearrange the brain till the mind is abated
Now every day sunshine and daisies
And I'm keeping up with Kardashians
Breakneck pace caffeine stimulated
I aint got the time for patience
I just gotta look tight in the latest trainers
man I fucking love this place man
copped me a spray tan now I look great man
Took 10 minutes in the AM done before lunch time
aint gotta waste a day sitting in the sunshine getting dumb tan lines
man I'm
back to the plan of getting these abs right right above my waist line
that's right
damn fine
in the right light
and the right filter
wait... give me a minute
Madness, damn madness man
and there ain't no plan
and the planet can't manage
we abandoned R&D,
no wealth increase just advertising
so we can buy shit and we don't need it we heedless
to the lies and the cycle repeats
we dying from suicide and being obese
it's insanity, it's
madness
damn madness man
no involvement with the land we evolved in
just ceran wrapped packets
all up in the ocean fucking with the dolphins
fuck it is revolting we don't wanna know this
we wanna go watch a show and just smoke shit
running from emotions so fucking hopeless
living a mess
the whole dam west regressed
oh yes we gone mad
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6. |
Interlude
00:54
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it's not a religion,
just live with compassion deepen the wisdom
a deep intuition,
the lack of attachment the middle position
just follow your deepest volition and enter the mission of sowing the seeds for the vision
to see through the seeds of division
by sitting and breathing and zipping the thinking
There's nothing divine about
and you could be fine without it
But this is a guide to life when you want to live right and find out about it
If you're seeking profoundness
I got no doubts about it
My mind was shrouded in cloud until I got wise and got kind about it
Now I'm feeling the Jhanas
With Sila, Samadhi, Prajna
I'm having the time of my life and feeling the love of the sangha round me
So if you're in need of the teachings of freedom
you know you can seek them in breathing
I mean it I'm not saying shit to deceive you
just give it a minute and see you'll believe it
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7. |
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I just need to breathe
I'm working on me
the best thing I can be is the best version of me
Got that Dharma running through my arteries
till it's a part of me
and I can finally be
Free
Times are tricky I know that you are struggling
stuck in the city and you feel that it is crumbling
you're stumbling, trapped up in a cycle of consumption
and the energy to really do it justice is just plummeting
but there is something you can feel it in the subtleties
the simple passing of the light between the leaves
and this ignites a deep inquiry in your mind you see
there's something to discover that is still a mystery
what could it be? the daily dramas feeling arbitrary
in search of answers for that something never seen
and now it's started well you can't deny the heart you see
you're parting from your past as you embark upon the dream
The fires ignited, you're ready to rise, ready to strive feel the adrenaline filling your mind
bounce off the ceiling many a time
until you realise to free your mind you gotta just find some ease
so you recline in a place that is quiet, clear your mind and breathe
Breathe
I'm working on me
the best thing I can be is the best version of me
Got that Dharma running through my arteries
till it's a part of me
and I can finally be
Free
You drop into your body when you're breathing
it seems to be a piece of meat you never quite believed in
but now you see the genius community the unity
the pieces and the inbetweens it leaves you feeling speechless
you keep on breathing and the peace it takes you deeper
creating space between sensations in your ether
can they arise with you just smiling as they're passing by
simply reside the preference mind is feeling nullified
but can you feel a strange container casting shades on every framework
that's arising all pervading contemplations
bring some patience to this jading of the mental states
till they alleviate and leave you with the straight substrate
well you're a pro now, but can you drop the pronouns
a state completely boundless, separation is unfounded
without a doubt this is profound there ain't no clouds
just resounding love abound inside a mind that is unshrouded
Just allow it
pretty sweet
and all you really had to do was sit around and breathe
and now you're free to be whatever you wanna be
cause you've expounded suffering with astounding clarity
and it's fantastic, no need for action
cause every breath you take just radiates compassion
and with that fact you're looking back on interactions
that are happening in the masses in a flash you're filled with passion
Cause in their actions you see that they are struggling
stuck in the city and they feel that it is crumbling
they're stumbling, trapped up in that cycle of consumption
and the energy for them to do it justice is just plummeting
But there is something and you know that it is graspable
So coming deep from you heart this is the task for you
and with a laugh and your heart upon your sleeve
this Bodhisattva just asks for them to breathe
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Something subtle you can feel it on your fingertips
maybe taste it as it passes in between your lips
A shapeless fragrance breaking stasis with the faintest whiff
Something changing we just can't grasp what it is
I see the martyrs from the past hearts breaking apart
at the state of what we've made from their art
we had a path going straight but created an arc
and now we've made a full circle and we're back at the start
But at the start of disaster's where the artistry starts
you can feel it as it changes and we sharpen the craft
mastering the art of partnering the light with the dark
till what's imparted is a part of the particles that we are
And we can march and stand for something more than we are
more than lambs to the slaughter pouring more at the bar
in an imported disorder that can't afford to advance
we force the lid off the jar and fucking martyr our hearts
You see
that's the way it seems to be
this world begins to breathe
if we move against the stream
it seems
that's the way it needs to be
we move towards peace
when we move against the stream
Now here's a thought if you can cop it have you thought of the prophets
as a thought that was real good until you just lost it
too accosted in the squalid dollar chasing economy
in a race to attain all the products that you wanted
Now the prophet that could profit your conscious it is squandered
composted in the back of the cosmos till we're on it
and spot it through neurotic disembodied apocalypse
with rockets, narcotics or a sonic melodic
We'll never find it with logic it's ectopic not demotic
and the movement to foster it is truly philanthropic
that's the beauty it moves smoothly it's duly alloted
in minute to astronomic as we move to embody it
We breathe... in the space between the trees
as they breath into our lungs and we breathe into the leaves
a symbiotic repository of prana and chi
and as we harbour the calmness we begin to be free
We breathe
in the space between the trees
as they breath into our lungs
and we breathe into their leaves
We breathe
in the space between the trees
as they breath into our lungs
and we breathe into their leaves
Now you're relaxed and understanding it is rampantly expanding
what arises is desire for action through compassion
and maybe you'll aspire to battle with the factions
creating all the madness and layers of abstraction
But David beat Goliath by not fighting
inside of confinements straight defined by the giant
so we can find that the right way to rise against tyrants
is not play the game or prescribe to requirements
we just gotta do the best with whatever we got
and we come from the west so we're blessed with a lot
don't matter where you're at if the self doubt can drop
we just gotta react and let our actions take off
Cause we ain't got the time for perfect
with the earth in a state of fucked up
just immerse in the work so your worth is emerging
and then together everybody wake up
You see
that's the way it seems to be
this world begins to breathe
if we move against the stream
it seems
that's the way it needs to be
we move towards peace
when we move against the stream
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9. |
Be Happy, Be Free
05:34
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And I just want you to be happy and free
that's all that matters to me
To just empathically be
We all get lost in constant battles with antagonist patterns
and feel we ain't got a map to help us navigate that
And that is tragic, and I don't wanna have to scatter no more ashes
of mates that lost their way to madness
I just wish that you'd find happiness
I just wish that you'd find peace
And I pray that we could find the space to contemplate
Our crazy pace it just aggravates our greatest pains
If we can not find the space to face our problems
then they constantly evolve until they're monsters in the closet
And I want to face our demons, I can hear the silent screams
And I know that it is frightening and easier to be hiding
But please believe me, we will never find no synergy
by hiding and denying all these aspects of our life
Cause it gets brighter in time
The monsters in the closet often disappear and turn to lessons that just make us stronger
We just gotta look them dead in the face and say I'm ready to embrace every possible state
And I know that it is easy to say
But to put it into practice that takes space to cultivate
So I dedicate this man called Dharma Dan and with everything I am
I will try to walk beside you
Cause I just want you to be happy. And I just want you to be free
And I just want you to be happy. And I just want you to be free
And I just want you to be happy. And I just want you to be free
And I just want you to be happy. And I just want you to be free
Dharma Dan know this verse is for you
So much hurt in every person, know you're feeling it too
It's time for healing through some personal truths
and to reveal what you're concealing now you're here in the booth
I know there's demons that are deep inside your soul
that you never wanna show cause you're scared no one out there could hold you
I know you're carrying a boulder on your shoulders
From feeling it's your fault your closest homies are no longer
I wanna say you're not responsible
Your obstacle to conquer is this feeling that their process could have gone in an opposite direction if you were stronger in your interventions
You didn't take their lives, they took their lives themselves
couldn't have stopped it, you did your best to help
don't let your grieving be the reason you ain't present for the next friend that's stressing and feels that they might need you.
Forget perfection, just give your offering
This concoction of songs that's not for profit
Know it's a blessing
the pain of loss nearly made you burn the pages for fear you'd never save nobody
You don't need to be a saviour, you don't need to be the greatest
you don't need to radiate a state of grace at all occasions
You don't need to hold the pain of everybody else's problems while bottling what's really going on
now you can put it in a song but can you bring it to your consciousness at times you're feeling lost
instead of finding your way to a dating app and hiding all your sadness in tryna find some action
It's like elastic, keep coming back these sad and hapless patterns
no matter the understanding expanding in the practice in praxis I fall back
And feeling lonely. And that's the bones and at the heart of all this martyrdom
and maybe I'm just asking to finally find a place where I feel I'm really part of something
Another plunket kid abandoned from the start
But I can see that there's a Boddhisattva starting to grasp these scattered parts and just offer them as a mandala
And all I ask is the path that I am taking could maybe find a way to help another in their hardships.
Cause I just want you to be happy. And I just want you to be free
And I just want you to be happy. And I just want you to be free
And I just want you to be happy. And I just want you to be free
And I just want you to be happy. And I just want you to be free
To everybody that's in need, just be happy and free
To everybody feeling grief, just be happy and free
For everybody that's got problems, just be happy and free
For everybody feeling lost, just be happy and free
Just be happy and free, just be happy
Just be happy and free, just be happy
Just be happy and free Just be happy and free Just be happy and free Just be happy
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10. |
Outro (Doha)
03:20
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People thrashing teeth gnashing minds absent till they
can't see the patterns that be keeping them captive i see
eyes of sadness and attachment to vices
a desire for passive in unrequited devices
My heart breaks as my energies fade
Do I have what it takes to move the opposite way
cause some days I wind up feeling displaced
and find myself playing games tryna hide in what's safe
sometimes I need to escape but I'm afraid to pump the brakes
The inertia of mind states deeply ingrained
and I see it in my people that are tryna make change
we're getting tired and keep tryna find a new way
In this
land of the blind this man with an eye can think that he's wise with limited sight
and vigilant like thinks him yes am I as he tries to guide with an ignorant mind
and what do we find we just be toeing the line
a bias filled with righteousness and fighting
with a mind that divides
See I do this for my peeps that be bodhi seeds growing to be refuge trees
to help us meet the demons of society
you are my tribe but the plight it is unending
it's rendered in a depth that I can't reach with sentences
I see no enemies, I see the first noble truth in all its excellence
and deft in its complexities
my greatest lessons were met in introspection
bereft of adversaries to saddle my apprehensions
it's
my greed and my needs and my freedom that I seek
it's my sadness my anger my patterns of miasma
It's
your greed and your needs and your freedom that you seek
it's your sadness your anger your patterns of miasma
it all matters it's all happening, we're all part of the same planet
All made of the same fabric, nothing to change but our own actions
so I start with my battles the expansion I spark
from my heart with regards I impart my doha
Just a drop of H2O trying to find its way home to the ocean
and I know I got a long way to go
And I hope to leave these words as atonement
It's my Doha
Just a drop of H2O trying to find its way home to the ocean
and I know I got a long way to go
And I hope to leave these words as atonement
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Dharma Dan New Zealand
After many years of exploration in meditation and Dharma, Dharma Dan shares his journey and his thoughts through the art of rap.
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