vimalakirti sutra, translated by @bob__thurman, whole piece made with the care-full co-praying with peter sellars. “this body is ownerless like the earth; selfless like water; like fire, this body has no body; impersonal like wind; egoless like the ether.” pentatonic major, mohanam (the image of lord krsna walking on earth); it’s Hindustani counterpart “bhoop” translates to “earth,” I’ve been told. water: pivot from tonic + 3^ to amruthavarshini (lydian minus 2 and 6), the ragam we would desperately sing before p.e. class to bring rain so we didn’t have to run the grounds (it worked, once). fire: add 2b, 7^, memories of the ragam tansen was forced to sing to set himself on fire (before his daughters countered with the sound of water). wind— kalyani (lydian). memories of driving my family crazy by refusing to sing 1 or 5 (sa,pa). our version of not resolving the sound until someone threw a fruit at you for being annoying. (become graspless, like wind). egoless, like space, not featured. (@alisethiofficial when we sang this together many moons ago you showed me another possibility for wind that I have been reaching for since, one day soon). I wish I could ask each of you, what are the sounds of each of these elements for you?