Sunday, May 4, 2025

Beach Life Music Festival, LA (May 2-4)



It's always time for Zen (jhana)
Friday was an odd day in Los Angeles, the cosmopolitan neighbor of Orange County, with cloud cover, cold, and a little mist. This is not the beach life, which is usually all sun (with some smog and traffic thrown in just to spoil the dream, a homeless mess and a meanness bordering on NYC style). The Los Angeles County Fair begins, and the Renaissance Pleasure Fair continues. So the BeachLife Festival must go on, and Wisdom Quarterly will be there with Dharma Buddhist Meditation (Meetup) to make it better with public group meditation on the sands of Redondo Beach.

Los Angeles County Fair (Dan Petchye)
Imagine a concert by the seashore with surly winds and California clouds. May is warm, if still a little runny with the remains of the LA Fires. Sometimes Southern California gets a sudden spell of actual weather. This time will work. This time all the bands will rock. This time we're going to make the mood buoyant with mass meditation enough to levitate someone.



In the midst of chaos, metta
Imagine seeing Sublime, CAKE, the Long Beach Dub Allstars, (hot) Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles (the eyes of the band), Skip Marley (grandson of Bob Marley), or Alanis Morissette, The Beach Boys (or what's left of them but including handsome John Stamos)...

Big Head Todd and the Monsters, and a few others like the Pretenders, Lenny Kravitz, Aloe Blacc, The Struts, Shovels & Rope, Digable Planets, Train, O.A.R., Lily Meola, Jackson Brown, and even Mt. Joy.

Beautiful eyes are more beautiful with kohl
Dharma Buddhist Meditation
will be present for a mass meditation to bring spiritual vibes to Day 2 of the event by positioning ourselves in different spots all around the concert (wearing Hoffs brand kohl around our eyes) before Sublime, on the sand, near the stage, away from the mosh pit (which will go crazy for CAKE), but be rocking for the LB Dub Allstars, Marley, and The Beach Boys!

It was all nerves, not sexy, seductive confidence?
Lenny Kravitz live at BeachLife Festival, Friday, May 2, 2025

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WHAT HAPPENED?
Live 'n stoned at BeachLife Fest '25

(DanfromLA) Dan (possibly exhibiting some level of intoxication but accompanied by his mom for safety) shows the vibe (relaxed) and weather (long sleeves) out at BeachLife Festival 2025, as Lenny Kravitz interrupts him by singing, Friday, May 2, 2025, Redondo Beach, California. But, Dan, what about Susanna Hoffs?

Susanna feels like making LOVE

She really feels it, so let's help -- and make LOVE (metta) with her:

What is metta (mass) meditation?

Meditation is walking, standing, or lying down
Mettā (Sanskrit maitrī) means "friendliness, loving-kindness (universal agape), benevolence, friendliness, amity, and good will."

It is an active interest in the wellbeing of others that leads to the impulse of compassion (karuna). It is the first of the Four Sublime States (brahma-viharas) recommended by the Buddha as helpful meditations to develop up to absorption (jhana).

Indian eye makeup in Egypt as seen on mural
It is one of the Ten Perfections (dasa pāramīs) of the Theravāda school of Buddhism. The cultivation of it, called mettā bhāvanā, is a popular form of Buddhist meditation. It is a one of the Four Immeasurables (unlimitables, universals) in Divine Abiding meditation.

Metta or "loving-kindness meditation" is often practiced in Asia by broadcast chanting, during which Buddhist monastics chant for lay Buddhists.

It's easier when we act as one. I'll call you back.
The universal aspect of loving-kindness is discussed in the Buddha's Metta Sutta and is also found in the ancient and medieval texts of Jainism and Hinduism as metta and maitriMore

"Mass" meditation is doing meditation en masse, as a whole, in a group, a collective, increasing coherence, power, and influence. One person in samadhi (jhana) through metta is very powerful, imponderably so, but 100 even if they do not attain to the level of absorption, still have a tremendous effect on the collective consciousness of the region.

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