Our One Solution

A new song with the message that no matter what variable we plug into an equation,

the solution is always love.  This may be a greater love than we now realize, and we may

label it as non-love, but that is just the ego labeling through limitation.  

The more we accept, the more the love is now revealed.  

Love is our one solution. ? + ? = Love

It is a groovy song that has that "man, I could drive and listen to this over and over" vibe. Or, at least it does for me.

Our One Solution

Feed the the starving

Heal the sickly

Clothe the naked and house the homeless

Help the struggling

And teach the ignorant

that there is more to life then what we think (then what we think)

Love is the way

Love is the key

Love calms your mind and opens your heart to eternity

Love heals your life

And it opens your eyes

And it reveals that everything that we experience is divinity (perfect divinity)

This is bigger than our wars and pain, then the snow and rain, then our personal gain

This is bigger than our selfish needs, there are lives to feed, and disparate souls to be freed

Love, love away all pollution

Love, love away all confusion

Love, love without one exclusion

Love, love is now our one solution

La la la la

la la la la la la la

Mend the bridges and tear down the fences

Embrace your neighbors and glorify this Earth

Love, away ideas of separation

Love, love away the fear of every nation

Love, love is here it fills us with elation

and Love, love is now our holy celebration

Love, love away all pollution (this is bigger)

Love, love away all confusion (this is bigger)

Love, love without one exclusion (so much bigger)

Love, love is now our one solution

Love, away ideas of separation

Love, love away the fear of every nation (love)

Love, love is here it fills us with elation

and Love, love is now our holy celebration (la la la la)

Love is the way

Love is the key

Love calms your mind and opens your heart to eternity

Love heals your life

And it opens your eyes

And it reveals that everything that we experience is divinity (perfect divinity)

Love is the way

Love is the key

Love calms your mind and opens your heart to eternity

Love heals your life

And it opens your eyes

And it reveals that everything that we experience is divinity

Love is the light

Love is the soul

Love is everything in creation

And love is the goal

La la la la

La la la la la la la

La la la la  

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New song, "a beautiful sunrise".

Here is the title track to my new, and developing CD, "a beautiful sunrise".

This music began to flow over Thanksgiving holiday, of which I am grateful.  

Let's enjoy the journey into the new CD. To hear the song please click here to visit my website.

a beautiful sunrise

Here is my heart, here is my voice

Here is my light and here is my choice

Here is my hand and here is my best

Here is my shoulder when you need a rest

Here is the moon and here is the sun

Here is the radiance in everyone

Here spreading our wings and the Earth now sings

We are coming home

Oh, it's a beautiful sunrise

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now out of the darkness

Oh it's a beautiful soul-rise

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now out of the ignorance

Here is the rock and here is the roll

Here is the journey and here is the soul

Here is the healing and here is the grace

Here is the rising of the human race

Here is forgiveness and here is release

Here is the unity and here is the peace

Here without judgment in unconditional love

Witness the splendor steaming from above

Rise up, Rise up, let your spirit soar

Rise Up. Rise Up. Let's get it brighter than it's ever been before

Rise Up. Rise Up. Helping those in need

Rise Up. Rise Up. Being compassion until every soul is freed

Oh, it's a beautiful sunrise

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now

Let's lift each other now into salvation

I can see the fire burning in your eyes

We can see the fire burning in your eyes

Richard Norman Schooping, 2010

Richard Schooping Sings "My Soul Remembers"

Sunday morning service at Detroit Unity Temple I sang Daniel Nahmod's amazing song, "My Soul Remembers." I was honored to sing, and the love and joy before, during, and after the service was such a blessing.  I know that the quality of the recording is medium, and that the mic I was using was not omni-directional, but hey, it is what it is.  

Thank you and have an amazing day!

Richard Schooping sings "Over the Rainbow" Karaoke

 

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The One as the Many (Gayatri Mantra Mix) - Richard Schooping

The One as the Many (Gayatri Mantra Mix)
to listen please visit my site. This is the final song on the album Be Here Now.

From the seed

to the tree

to the nest

to the bird

to the sky

to the rain

to the skin

to the hand

to the shovel

to the grave

to the soil

and back to the seed

There is no separation in the unitary being

From the seed

to the brain

to the synapse

to the fear

to the gun

to the bullet

to the body

to the grave

to the tears

to the the family, the doctors, the friends, the world, the soil

and back to the seed

There is no separation in this human tapestry

From Islam to Sufi to African to Christian to Zen to Jewish to Buddhist

to Hindu to Shinto to Secular to Primal to the Non-religious

to Sikhism, Baha'i, Janism, Taoism, Universalism, Native American and many more

We all want to realize the One love that unifies

Everybody unlearning the one as the many, the many as the one

all illusions are burning, the one as the many, the many as the one

on the same planet turning, the one as the many, the many as the one

one sacred being now, the one as the many

I don't believe in anything but love

I don't believe in anything but now

I don't believe in anything but here

I don't believe in anything but love

Aum Bhur Bhuva Svah
Tat Savitur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi
Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat

From the seed

of the heart

to our prayers

to our songs

of compassion

and forgiveness and surrender

Revealing the truth and the joy and the love and the peace radiating as human beings

Embrace everyone to be the one

Everybody unraveling the one as the many, the many as the one

Everybody discovering the one as the many, the many as the one

Everybody demystifying he one as the many, the many as the one

Everybody experiencing the one as the many

I don't believe in anything but love

I don't believe in anything but now

I don't believe in anything but here

I don't believe in anything, anything but love

Aum Bhur Bhuva Svah
Tat Savitur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi
Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat

Aum

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Burn Away - Song Lyrics

 Burn Away

Grant me the wisdom to feel the truth (om mani padme hum)
Grant me the courage to surrender my doubts (om mani padme hum)
Grant me the compassion to reach beyond myself (om mani padme hum)
Burn away this illusion of non-love

Om Mani Padme Hum
Burn away, Burn Away, Burn Away, Burn Away

Fill me with light so I may shine (om mani padme hum)
Fill me with love so I may inspire (om mani padme hum)
Bless with me humility so I release my grip (om mani padme hum)
Setting free the bird of my soul

Burn Away this fear. How can I be afraid in a world of love?
Burn Away this hate. How can I hate anything in a world of love?
Burn Away this disease. How can I be sick in a world of love?
Burn Away this feeling of non-love so I can feel the truth.

Taste the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Speak the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Walk the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Give the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Grow the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Build the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Shine the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Sing the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Move with truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Heal with truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)
Shine the truth (om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum)

Burn Away this fear. How can I be afraid in a world of love?
Burn Away this hate. How can I hate anything in a world of love?
Burn Away this dis-ease. How can I be sick in a world of love?
Burn Away this feeling of non-love so I can feel the truth.

Burn Away my fears
Burn Away my hate
Burn Away my dis-ease
Burn Away…

In a world of LOVE

Richard Norman Schooping, 2010

New video for new song "Be Here Now"

Enjoy this first live-action video of my new song "Be Here Now". It was freezing and windy and raining but such a joyful experience. More videos soon. Blessings.

This Song We Sing

An original song with original art as an ode to the ONE love that we ARE.

We are the sunlight and the golden sand
We are the miracle molded in Love’s hand
The greatest ocean an eternal spring
Because of love this song we sing


We are the mountains and the winding shores
We are the one, and the love on which It soars
The magnificent Earth and All residing
Because of love this song we sing


We are the forest, the stands of emerald green
We are the Beauty that abounds seen an unseen
A Holy family here awakening
Because of love this song we sing


We are the music, glorious harmony
We are the instruments sounding Love’s symphony
For all eternity, may love and light we bring
Because of love this song we sing


We are becoming all that we are
We are evolving, an eternal brilliant star
We will light the way for those who seek the ring
Because of love this song we sing



namaste

CD: Song Two Lyrics - "Let the Circle Expand"

CD "Songs for the Wind" available soon.
Song samples at http://www.richardschooping.com.
I am inspired to share the lyrics,
blog by blog. This is song two of 12.










This is a song of centering and empowerment.
This song is a potential World Movement and tour theme.

As we experience our lives and the world we become overwhelmed with the large "problems" and issues occurring. We feel small and helpless. We think "What can I do to help? I am just an average person in a small town just trying to pay my bills and survive." and we are overwhelmed. The problem arises when we are so overwhelmed by the larger and distant happenings of which we do not directly affect that we become imbalanced in our daily lives.

This song grounds the listener into the value of their own experience and places them in a space of gratitude. It shares that it is the little things that we do in our "individual" lives that affect and are a part of the whole movement of creation.

If one planet veers the Universe is affected.

This song is a visual analogy using circles to represent one's influence. When we observe a war we lose our center because our center has then "moved" from our life off to some distant fighting land. We become imbalanced by the stress and disconnection that we feel when observing something as big and this "seemingly' out of control. When we are worried about these larger issues and not grounded into our own immediate life we suffer, we are in fantasy.

But, when we realize that helping our family, our neighbors, and ourselves is integral to the whole we become centered and empowered. We realize the power in being present within our "ordinary" life. We find joy in being our circle; and when we balance and center, our circle naturally expands and joins with other balanced circles. These incremental steps of circles joining is how true momentum of life happens. This song shares that when we are grounded and thankful, the "seeming" separateness that we feel is "healed" as the circles join to consciously become one circle of being: GOD, so Let the Circle Expand.



As we walk through this world together or alone
We are continually shown what seeks GOD’s grace
And through our giving, our creations, or the smile on our face
Let our hearts radiate like the Sun

Feed our starving children
Teach those struggling with disease
that with God anything is possible
when we give our life to love

Peace is not complacency, it affords powerful clarity
That reveals the world and the majesty that IS

Let the circle expand forever
Shining our light eternally for every country, every nation
All of our creed throughout creation
We’ll resolve the conflict and heal the land
So let the circle expand

It’s not the trend or the scale of the action that we take
Let us follow our compassion where it leads
It may be prayer or meditation or assisting another’s needs
We are each a vital part of the ONE

Shine a light into the darkness
So that all may experience the joy
That with love anything is achievable
When we open to our possibility

Isolation is absolved, with the breath of GOD all is resolved
Then we see the glory shining in our eyes

Let the circle expand, forever
A beacon of truth that is calling out to every person, of every, color
No matter how they choose to love each other
The greater design we will understand
Let the Circle Expand

CD: Song One Lyrics - "One Deer, One Dove"

CD "Songs for the Wind" available soon. Song samples at http://www.richardschooping.com. I am inspired to share the lyrics,
blog by blog. This is song one of 12.






What is this song about? Well first, how do I write music? When I create, the closest semantic I can use is that the process is multidimensional. As I write songs I seem to become the space of that song. I can say this is similar to painting; but holographic, with sounds, colors, shapes, words, topics, people, etc. Cal says that I continually talk with "myself" when I am creating music, but I am not aware of this.

It is so interesting that while I am writing songs I am more than just me sitting playing a keyboard and programming instruments. I am every instrument and every musician, and each has their own personality and style. It is hard to explain, though I am sure many experience writing music this way. When I am for instance writing, within my "space" or head (not really visual) the scene IS, the song is. If I am writing a cello line I am somehow working directly with a cellist (though I am also that cellist), and "we" are in an environment (a studio, or on a stage) and working together. This is the case with every song. I am either working "with" the musicians directly or the song is a scene playing out in my head; like I am watching it happen and trying to keep up by taking (writing) notes like a reporter. Yes, it feels I am just observing and documenting the notes and colors as fast as I able because when I am deep in one song I still hear other songs "waiting" to "come in from some dimensional space within my head. And as I am writing choir members are coming and going, someone brings in taco bell, feedback screeches; I mean it is a full-on scene.

Another thing is that each phrase or melody also has a "world" within or of it. How do I explain this (though it is irrelevant but fun to attempt) so that one will know what I mean? Let us say I am writing the intro bars to a verse and it is comprised of piano, percussion, and violins. Well, as I am in that space of "creating" I may be flying (about 10' feet from the ground) above a rocky wave-lapped shoreline through the eye of a bird. Or, I am with the three musicians on an old rickety wooden stage in an opera house (crowd and all), or we are wind-caressed playing at a fog-engulfed edge of a cliff, etc. Every melody, phrase, or rest is like this. Each has an associated "thing" with it. There are worlds associated with each song like a movie. That was interesting to put into words.

So, concerning "One Deer, One Dove" I do not remember the movie or the exact process, but as you listen to the words you can imagine the scenes playing out and being woven. This song has a "personal" and experiential arc with a Universal theme. This song explains my experience of "feeling" more of myself and of being more than I had been. The personal arc of story is that there is a presence that becomes known when we "expand" that is more than a feeling, it is US. "Raining down through my soul..." is as clear as I can express it in this song. I am pointing to this presence that we are with the imagery. The second Universal theme is that we do not have to be ineffectual to be spiritual. We are the grace of the dove and the power, alertness, and agility of the deer. So many now are "thinking" spiritual, and not being whole. Wholeness contains All, and this includes the qualities of surrender and knowing.




I close my eyes, and I drift into silence
Through the doorway of the heart on an ocean of love

And there we are giving comfort and solace

Raining down through my soul unlike ever before

I had been suffering, wandering for so long (for so long)
Fearful of everything until we washed me in our song


We are one heart, we are one love (one love, one love)
We are one race, we are one joy (one joy, one joy)
We are one deer, we are one dove (one dove, a beautiful dove)
We are one world, we are one voice


And now I'm here experiencing glory
Celebrating these senses born of flesh as human
And still I grow amazed at how loving GOD is
I'm humbled by this gift of life, our divinity, our plan


I had been struggling, trying to fit into this place (trying to fit into this space)
Loosing the battle with my disease until we held me in our embrace

Chorus

Let us show kindness, be giving, and meek
But being holy isn't ineffectual or weak

We are the mightiest power and we are so much more
Let us not think about how to be spiritual and then we soar

And through the unity of the dear and the dove
We become a living symbol of GOD's love

We are one now
We are one now
We are one heart, one love

We are here Now

We Gave Us This

All we know

All we feel

Only love that surrounds us

All we hear

There’s nothing to fear

Its only us that has found us

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for

We are the ones in the open door

You are me

And I am you

There is no separation

Its what I am

Its what we are

One united creation

We are the peace that we’re seeking

We are the joy that is being

So celebrate everybody that we know

Celebrate everything and everywhere we go

Feel the unity grow

Situations, situations will flow

There’s are stream

Only a dream carrying us together

Its only love

Its only one

Dancing sacred forever

We are the savior we’re praying for

We are the light through the open door

So celebrate every color that we see

Celebrate every note in every melody

Singing a song of bliss

Overjoyed we gave us this