Dr. Kurt 'Kailash' Bruder, Trainer of Communication Professionals
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One consequence of my study of human selfing is my exposure to (and continuing love-affair with) devotional chanting across the world's Wisdom Traditions. It's become my central spiritual practice, and aids me in my mental-emotional-developmental hygiene.
Following Sound into Silence: Chanting Your Way Beyond Ego into Bliss (2008, Hay House), is my effort to provide guidance and support for all chanters, in every tradition, whether new to the experience or a seasoned leader. A CD containing 15 mantras set to gorgeous music accompanies the book, and is available for download. Nourish your heart and mind with this uplifting, dependable musical-meditative self-help method.
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Click on the cover of the new album to listen to, learn about, and purchase Longing:
Please listen to a favorite track from Longing:
Now here's how the same mantra was sung in its first public performance. Notice how the musical and emotional intensity builds throughout.
Discourse regarding why devotional chanting is useful to practitioners.
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Kailash (Kurt A. Bruder, Ph.D., M.Ed.) believes that devotional chanting is a reliable tool that we can use to reduce our internal chatter, simplifying our mindstream from the usual (but overwhelming) chaos of thoughts, memories, feelings, and "to-do"s that plague our awareness and rob us of peace. More than this, because the content of our chanting is the very Sound Form of the Supreme, we provide our consciousness with something truly worthwhile to think, feel, and (ultimately) be.
This CD features Kailash chanting 15 powerful mantras. Each is arranged and produced to retain the purity and intensity of feeling of traditional mantras, to provide support for listeners who want to chant along, and to make them as attractive as possible to a contemporary Western audience. You've never heard anything quite like this CD before. Its beauty is matched only by the transforming quality of devotion that it promotes in the listener.
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This gorgeous collection of mantra-music features tracks from Swami Kripalu, Guru Ganesha Singh, Krishna Das, Dave Stringer, Girish, Shantala, Christine Ghezzo--and Kailash too!
Kailash celebrates the privilege of being included in such an auspicious company of bhaktas. This is an exceptionally beautiful ensemble of heart-warming mind-protectors. "The recording artists featured in this hand-picked selection are well-known and beloved performers at Kripalu Center."
Proceeds from the sale of this luscious compilation of devotional chanting benefit Kripalu's Teaching for Diversity Program. Please add it to your spiritual toolkit today.
Kailash's second CD, Kailash: Live, features many of the chants heard during his kirtan events that are not included in his first CD, Sincerity. It even includes Kailash's rendition of Message in a Bottle (a favorite with many audience members!).
Drawing upon two principal streams in Kailash's spiritual lineage, tantric Hinduism and Buddhism, these mantras provide lush soundscapes in which our hearts and minds may freely travel.
As Kailash says, "A mantra is a path to the Perfection that it represents. Each repetition is a step toward stable residence in that very Perfection."
The offerings on this CD are valuable resources for your journey to a version of yourself that is more consistent with your Chosen Ideal, and more capable of expressing the Radiant Care and Awareness that is our Essential Nature.
Sincerity, was Kailash's first recording effort. These chants, which find their inspiration in the Hindu, Buddhist and Christian wisdom traditions, are vehicles for the expression of devotion to Source. Using the very breath of life to direct and expand attention and affection toward the Infinite is a profound spiritual technology for escaping the petty ego-prison that we've unwittingly built for ourselves.
Kailash's guru, Bhagavan Das, says: "This is the drama that we're creating through our desires. You get what you want." Love is an impulse that demands our closeness to the Beloved. We have the opportunity to follow our attachment into Transcendence. We tend to take on the characteristics of those with whom we keep company, especially those we love. Since we inevitably become what we love, we would do well to aim high with love.
Chanting the Divine Names, singing love songs to our Highest Ideals, helps us to align our hearts and minds with the Beloved. It is a simple way to elevate the quality of our interior experience by replacing the overwhelming traffic of thoughts and feelings with a single, beautiful and inspiring Focus. In chant, we may discover a way to forget ourselves happy!
The Zazzle OmKailash store site offers products emblazoned with art created by Dr. Kurt "Kailash" Bruder to illustrate the text of his book, Following Sound into Silence: Chanting Your Way Beyond Ego into Bliss (2008, Hay House).
Kailash searched for the best images to compliment his interpretations of the mantras selected for the book and CD. Although he found many beautiful illustrations of the Perfections that these mantras celebrate, he could not locate all that were needed. Nor were those he found of a piece; they were unrelated images, each by a different artist and in a different style. Kailash wanted the art in his book to present the same beauty, unity, and authenticity for viewers' eyes as the mantra recordings on the chanting CD do for the ears of listeners.
So Kailash knew that he must undertake a third creative venture in connection with this single project (after writing the text, and composing and recording the music for the CD). He would render a collection of watercolored ink drawings depicting the very Gods, Goddesses, and Saints whose Sound-Forms grace the pages of the book, and the CD that accompanies it.
Neem Karoli Baba said, "The Grace of God is being able to Remember God." By displaying these likenesses of the multi-faceted Divine, in your home, office, or on your person, you arrange to remind yourself of the Best that you can imagine--just as you do when repeating mantras with faith and devotion. Combining these modes of meditation upon the Supreme is an especially potent method of outstripping the limitations of ordinary consciousness.
