Thouart the basis for all these names and forms. O Thou Invisible One! O Adorable One! O Supreme! Thou permeatest and penetratest thisvast universe from the unlimited space down to the tiny blade of grass at my feet. When desire dies mind is your slave.Become desireless and be victorious. Feelthe power, bliss and splendour that result from perfect self-conquest.Ĭurb the mind ruthlessly.

By Abhyasa and Vairagya assert your mastery. Through repeated attempts youcan perfectly subdue it. The mind is no doubt extremely turbulent. Experiences And Obstacles In Meditationįear not.I'm normally not a nostalgia guy, but I've gotta admit it was really fun revisiting these tunes.This WWW reprint is for free distribution I promise I'm not as negative of a person as my lyrics might suggest. like robbing banks and the end of the world. I still find myself writing anti-love songs to this day, but I've also added other subjects to my arsenal as well. That's where songs like 'You never shut up', 'Fast as I can' and 'Farthest Place Away' came from. They were the reason the bands got paid and laid, but to teenage Mark Parker they were just in the way of the rock! So when I finally got a guitar, learned a few chords and started writing songs, they were as far away from ballads as I could get. It was a great time for rock music, but it was also the prime era of the power ballad. Damn the instruction manual! The problem was I didn't have any songs ready to go, so I reached into the well, deep into the well, and pulled out these tunes.Īnother good question! See, I grew up in the era of Hair Metal.

Like any red blooded American male, I wanted to get right to recording. Still not professional, but a definite upgrade. I recently upgraded my recording equipment. This EP is 4 new recordings of songs I wrote when I was in the band. If I'm a discount Paul Westerberg, then SOC was my Replacements. We covered the Ramones and Johnny Thunders and wrote songs about girls. In this case it's a band I was in many, many moons ago.

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