Listening to THIS, right now, on the train from Munich back to Regensburg, after officially welcoming Hyon Mun Sunim back to Europe.

We did a short, sweet 49 Day Memorial chanting tonight because today is the 49th-day of my brother, Christopher Paul Muenzen (M.D.) passing out of his body. Just today! Following the vast mixture of his karmic affinities, accumulated over a lifetime, he might be returning to (human?) bodily form.

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Fourth Movement: Urlight (Primal Light)

Original German:English Translation:O Röschen roth! Der Mensch liegt in größter Noth! Der Mensch liegt in größter Pein! Je lieber möcht’ ich in Himmel sein! Da kam ich auf einen breiten Weg: Da kam ein Engelein und wollt’ mich abweisen. Ach nein! Ich ließ mich nicht abweisen: Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott! Der liebe Gott wird mir ein Lichtchen geben, Wird leuchten mir bis in das ewig selig Leben! —DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN O little red rose! Man lies in greatest need! Man lies in greatest suffering! How much rather would I be in Heaven! I came upon a broad road. There came an angel and wanted to block my way. Ah no! I did not let myself be turned away! I am of God, and to God I shall return. Dear God will grant me a small light, Will light my way to eternal, blissful life! —From Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony is what I consult after this sweet chanting with Sunim in Munich (and a taste of his supreme self-made medicinal liquor for the occasion, fermented from funeral ceremony eats he collected at Tae Go Sah temple in the parched desert of fire-driven California, from where he arrived to us several days ago!).

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