Terma

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Release Date: 2013

Label: Pest Productions

All songs uncovered in solitude from a remote mountain hermitage in the wild highlands of the Columbia River Gorge, central Cascadia.
Recorded November 2012.
Limited edition of 500 copies.

Taken from the liner notes:
"After Padmasambhava befriended the indigenous deities and enlisted their help to build the temple at Samye, he and his consort Yeshe Tsogyal wandered four years throughout the countryside planting spiritual treasures known as terma. The roamed the mountains and the valleys, the bustling villages and remote wildernesses, hiding this terma for the benefit of future beings. For over a thousand years spiritual practitioners have uncovered terma. It is indeed still found in the present day. Sometimes the terma appears as a spiritual object cast in meteoric iron; other times as a prayer scroll containing practice instructions. Still other times the terma appears directly in the mindstream of the practitioner, in the form of a liturgy, a vision, a mantra, or a song of realization.

Teachings that reveal the true nature of reality are passed down to us by the Lineage, the unbroken chain of awakened one stretching back through beginningless time. They are given to us by the earth itself. The lay in a state of wakeful stillness, waiting to spring upon an unsuspecting seeker. They are everywhere".