[Buddha-l] gorgeous sung version of Heart Sutra

[Joy Vriens]

Richard P. Hayes wrote:

> Yes, thanks for posting it. It's a fascinating example of the perfection
> of silliness.
> Who ever got the idea to put the Heart Sutra to music (with a Bengali
> accent, yet)? The Heart Sutra is not even in verse. It's not even
> written in ornamented prose. Some say it wasn't even written in Sanskrit
> but was translated into rather ugly Sanskrit from Chinese. 

Of course we would have preferred the Buddha wrote himself his teachings 
in ornamented prose with his own webbed fingers, so others didn't have 
to guess what the Buddha said or write What Would Buddha Do? Instead of 
having endless discussons on this list and elsewhere, we would have had 
time to do more useful things. But being omniscient etc. he must have 
wanted it this way and wished all the best for GMR and his cute dakini.

And anyway, ugly Sanskrit is cool as long as it is Sanskrit (even though 
the The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra probably disagrees).

"Ils ne savent pas ce qu'ils perdent,
Tous ces fichus calotins,
Sans le latin, sans le latin,
La messe nous emmerde.
A la fête liturgique,
Plus de grandes pompes, soudain,
Sans le latin, sans le latin,
Plus de mystère magique.
Le rite qui nous envoûte
S'avère alors anodin,
Sans le latin, sans le latin,
Et les fidèles s'en foutent.
O très Sainte Marie mère de
Dieu, dites à ces putains
De moines qu'ils nous emmerdent
Sans le latin."
http://www.frmusique.ru/texts/b/brassens_georges/tempetedansunbenitier.htm

Joy