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The three CDs on the One Bright Pearl Music label all feature what I call songs of Presence. They came about when I began meditating with my teacher, Ruth Gilbert in 1992 (later becoming a student of her husband, Jon Parmenter, as well). At the time, I had been working as a psychotherapist and training as an opera singer in Toronto. Shortly after receiving the Dzogchen teachings on the Nature of Mind, original music began to naturally arise in my experience, and it has done so increasingly ever since. The melodies and words on the CDs (other than the traditional Buddhist songs and mystical poetry) arose during Dzogchen practice, with its emphasis on entering presence directly in whatever is arising. The more stable my practice of entering presence in my daily life has become, the more I have been able to enter that state while singing. It was my intention to bring non-dual awareness into the experience of singing these songs, to the extent that I was able at the time that these recordings were made. These songs are a record of that process. One Bright Pearl was created in 1995-96; Boundless was created in 2000. Birdsong was created during the summer of 2008. I now live in a rural area of the Okanagan Valley with my husband Benjamin, our three cats, and a view of the inspiring endless sky. |
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I am grateful to my teachers, and to all those who are taking the radical and precarious path of experiencing what we are. -Sharon Wiener, |
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