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Doha

by Dharma Dan

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1.
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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Knock Knock 02:43
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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Know Thyself 03:31
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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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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City Folk 03:11
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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Interlude 00:54
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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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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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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Outro (Doha) 03:20
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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The first album from NZ based rapper Dharma Dan.
After many years immersed in deep meditation and contemplative work, this album shares some of the thoughts and stories that have arisen in a personal, self reflective way.

'Doha' means songs of realisation, or songs of experience. A doha is an ancient sanskrit form of poetry where an expression of an individual's spiritual understandings is shared in the form of rhyming couplets.

Follow Dharma Dan at: www.facebook.com/dharmadannz/

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released October 11, 2018

Written, performed and mixed by Dharma Dan.
Mixing support from Mr Squatch.

Tracks produced by various artists (listed individually for each track).
BiNKSY: www.facebook.com/binksymusic/
Jack Mack: www.facebook.com/Jack-Mack-335667266982320/
Mr Squatch: www.facebook.com/MrSquatchMusic/
Urban Nerd Beats: www.facebook.com/UrBanNerdBeats/

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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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