The practice that underlies my music is the same that deepens meditation: quietening and listening. This is a path grounded in awareness rather than performance.
We live in an age of increasing speed. Guitar Dharma invites us to slow down — to shift from the head to the heart. It’s not about mastering technique. Rather, attention turns to nurturing awareness, presence, and authenticity through music.
Through body, speech, and mind, we create the landscape in which music becomes a practice. Relax the body. Speak kindly — especially to yourself. Bring pure intention to sound. Every note becomes a doorway.
“Beauty is the touchstone. If the art is performed with a pure heart, beauty appears there.” — Vinoba Bhave, You Are, Therefore I Am
When we meet the instrument with this attitude of curiosity, practice becomes less about control and more about relationship. Listening replaces striving. Rather than approaching new pieces, techniques, or the composing process with trepidation or a desire to conquer, we can invoke a spirit of curiosity. And each phrase, each silence, reveals something about how we are in that moment — open or guarded, patient or hurried. The guitar becomes a mirror, if you can catch the reflection.
🎧Listen — “Om Hreem” This is a simple chant with very basic guitar. It is a true field recording — an inexpensive classical guitar, an open heart, and the crickets of the Indian night. Composed and offered in devotion, it’s my take on a traditional Hindu chant. It carries the same stillness that infuses my instrumental music. Earbuds are definitely best for these sparse, sensitive sounds.
When we play from a place of sincerity, music becomes meditation. The goal is not perfection but presence — attuning to the shapes of the phrases, the suspension of the holds, the delicate and precise stillness of the rests. Mindfulness here simply means being aware, fully present, without judging, trusting that beauty arises naturally when we let go of control.
To practice this way is to remember that sound itself is alive. Each vibration carries intention. Each silence, space for awakening.
