Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit.
Meditation is generally an inwardly oriented, personal practice, which individuals do by themselves. Prayer beads or other ritual objects are commonly used during meditation. Meditation may involve invoking or cultivating a feeling or internal state, such as compassion, or attending to a specific focal point. The term can refer to the state itself, as well as to practices or techniques employed to cultivate the state.
There are dozens of specific styles of meditation practice; the word meditation may carry different meanings in different contexts. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as a component of numerous religious traditions and beliefs.
A 2007 study by the U.S. government found that nearly 9.4% of U.S. adults (over 20 million) had practiced meditation within the past 12 months, up from 7.6% (more than 15 million people) in 2002.
RADIO STATION | GENRE | LOCATION |
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Meditation Music | Easy,New Age | USA |
Radio Art: Meditation & Spa | Easy,Ambient | Greece |
Meditation Channel | Ambient | Internet Only |
Nirvana Meditation | Ambient | Poland |
Plot
Mark and Jessie Bannister have a problem. Actually, SEVERAL problems. Namely his cousins, her sister and nephew, and the neighbours next door. All this, problems at work and a cat that keeps coming back from the dead.
Keywords: chaos, craziness, dream-house, drug-dealer, dysfunctional, family-gathering, fire, guest, independent-film, one-word-title
The bad news is you have houseguests. There is no good news.
Jessie: [on the phone] I'm calling for Trenton, New Jersey. Dr. Jack Penix! WITH AN X!
Jessie Bannister: How would you murder someone? If you have a question Los Angeles... then you should just ask someone else cause I swear to God I don't know anymore. What am I talking about? HOUSEGUESTS! Houseguests from hell! Ladies and Gentlemen you listen to me, no you get that snack later, you listen to me! Lock your doors! Don't answer the phone! If you have to leave the country then leave the country but don't let them in! They may look like your mother, your father, your sister, your friend, but they're not! They're slimy! They're cockroaches! If the world was to summer a nuclear holocaust the only surviving life form would be HOUSEGUESTS! AHHHHHHHH
Bernice: I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: "Amaretta," "Caramel," or "Treblinka"::Claudia: You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp!::Bernice: I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella.::Claudia: You moron!::Bernice: I hope my water breaks all over your fur coat!
Jessie Bannister: You want me to mail urine to New Jersey?
Claudia: He barely knows I'm alive, he cut my allowance.::Jessie Bannister: He cut her allowance, honey!::Mark Bannister: To what? $9000.00 a month?::Claudia: He makes me drive his old Jaguar.::Jessie Bannister: Now Claudia, some people have worse problems.::Claudia: Like Who?::Jessie Bannister: Like people who don't have cars.::Claudia: Who cares about them!
Bernice: Don't worry about me having dinner, I'll just lick the crumbs off my filthy sheets!
Wes: What is this? [Picks something off of Mark's suit jacket] Is this cat hair?::Mark Bannister: It's Felix the Rat.::Wes: When do you get rid of these people?::Mark Bannister: Today!
Katy: Did you see the elephant?::C.K.: He's got diarrhea.::Katy: [referring to C.K] You *are* diarrhea.
Mark Bannister: [speaking to Claudia's husband Kaddir on the phone] Hi, Kaddir, "salaam" back at you.::Claudia: I won't talk to him.::Mark Bannister: [speaking to Claudia] He wanted to know if you were here.::Claudia: Why?::Mark Bannister: To let you know he canceled your credit cards.::Claudia: What? That Middle Eastern maggot! He can talk to my lawyer, the nerve of that towel head!::Mark Bannister: [back on the phone with Kaddir] Oh, yes, she is very upset about your little love spat, Kaddir. [now speaking to Claudia] He says he will forget everything if you just go home and fix dinner for him.::Claudia: [shouting into the mouthpiece of the phone] Oh, grind some glass, Ayatollah!
Claudia: Well, what was I supposed to think. They looked insane.::Bernice: We're not insane. We're from New Jersey.::Fred: Yeah, the Garden State.
In my loneliness
When you're gone and I'm all by myself and I need your carress
I just think of you
And the thought of you holding me near
Makes my loneliness soon disappear
Though you're far away
I have only to close my eyes and you are back to stay
I just close my eyes
And the sadness that missing you brings
Soon is gone and this heart of mine sings
Yes I love you so
And that for me is all I need to know
I will wait for you till the sun falls from out of the sky
for what else can I do
I will wait for you
[Verse 1]
Deep concentration, mental penetration
Hits me off the paranormal psychic information
Imagine every b-boy and girl in third world nations
Unite become one through pure hip-hop meditation
Watch me closely, I separate the spiritual from the ghostly
Tap the Emperor get struck down like Obi Wan Kenobi
I am hip-hop so hold me, but no one had ever told me
That corporate America would attempt to over-throw me
Secretly plant and grow me, light me up and then smoke me
Got you thinking your the Godfather like Vito Corleone
As an underground artist my days and nights below me
Signing a contract like King Salo, now everybody knows me
Righteousness oppose me, wicked women don't approach me
I am a player-hater so ??? Nelson couldn't coach me
I flipped animalistic's, and the critics tried to poach me
Turned a crew of battle-cats into pussy-cats like Josie
Oh don't play me closely, it's the music that controls me
Hip-hop is mother earth and in my infancy she holds me
Single parent see single handily shape and hold me
When they tried to enslave me she train me how to set my soul free
Bounty Hunters capture me, in carbonate they froze me
I am the Dark Oder my two sons are Thor and Ockie
In the beginning there was the word and in the sentence hip-hop wrote me
If you're brave enough to meditate then come along and show me!
[Verse 2]
I'm an extra-terrestrial emcee, and I know some are doubting me
Like Han Solo fighting style, like awe Millennium Falcon me
I change shapes and mind states through the use of mental alchemy
I climbed the Tower of Babylon and through rappers of the balcony
My culture showers me, the microphone overpowers me
Separates me from rappers who use actions that are cowardly
That's how it be, hip-hop amazes me worships, praises me
Resembles favours me, allows me many ways to freak
Seven styles for seven days a week
Allows me to transform like soundwave and give up more tapes than Laser Beak
The things you see in life hip-hop provides you, over-rides you
Let the spirit of hip-hop get up inside you
There was a shoulder to lead on, but I had the one to cry to
Help me pick up the pieces made me hot enough to fly through
Tried to fly through, jacking me for my faculty
Half of these emcees get lost in space like Dr. Zachary
I jetted for the goal-line A and R's kept trying to tackle me
Sacked me and grappled me, I was the righteous of an athlete
At first I was alone now there's a 1000 kids that backing me
Finally got a deal and now the CIA are tracking me
I didn't mean to do it socialism just came naturally
I think it's time to meditate, my sentiments exactly
[Verse 3]
In the world filled with petulance and hatred
Some say we'll be rescued by spaceships
I stay away from crooks and study books by the ages
When the world gets to crazy hip-hop helps me escape it
No gravity I am weightless, broke from poverty to greatness
I create this and built this, kid rackets smelt the fragrance
One love, One blood I got rhymes buried in my platelage
You can state this, crease this, place this with emphasis
Now enter this, take shots like Islamic fundamentalists
Degenerate rappers I'm smashing attackin' with a passion
A-and-R-bashin', ripping lyrics built on fashion
Now imagine you just won a trip around my way
Full transportation all expenses paid
I've never been a player just the one who got played
Now my style kills more kids then Rouge versus Wade
Don't be afraid to join us on this hip-hop meditation
Where you encounter evil spirits, release hip-hop and let it chase them
And place them over here, forget the clothes that you be wearing
My style is matter free, I'm free but don't you go comparing
Your weekly shopping-sprees versus my bargain basement shopping
Your religion versus my black magic concoction
Tae-quando and boxing, moving soldiers to my locksmith
Your biodegradable rhymes to my lethal toxin
Rhyming is a gift and not an option
I gave birth to more styles then half you emcees got through adoption
Be careful of the lyrics and the rhymes that you be dropping
In my loneliness when you're gone
And I'm all by myself and I need your caress
I just think of you and the thought of you holding me near
Makes my loneliness soon disappear
Though you're far away
I have only to close my eyes and you are back to stay
I just close my eyes and the sadness that missing you brings
Soon is gone and this heart of mine sings
Yes I love you so and that for me is all I need to know
I will wait for you till the sun falls from out of the sky
For what else can I do
I will wait for you, meditating how sweet life
[Lidu Rock]
Meditatin, smokin the big spliff
Drivin across the Verrazano, on my way to BK
Movin like Paul Costallano, got one soldier wit me
Nah, son, he hold the fifty, Desert Eagle for people actin shifty
My real Rep niggas, and I love 'em to death
Bustin our guns way before we made Watch Your Step
And now it's on, for real, dedicated, not on some funny shit
Like niggas that's wit you on the strength, over some money shit
Them dick ridin niggas, you know who the be
Who wanna smoke all the trees, thinkin the shit for free
My special tactics, what what, who make more niggas do backflips
Then Mary Lou, when my fuckin mack spits
[Supreme]
First things first, all ya bitch niggas disperse
Ever since birth, I was trained to spit verse like a nine milli
Don't send ya scrubs to come and drill me, yo that sound silly
Aiyo Grim, what's the dilly?
I feel these niggas wanna test my composure
Two true soldiers, and it ain't over til it's over
You feel this, come and let these cats know what the deal is
As I walk through the valley, I pray I won't have to kill shit
Let me spill this, realness from the villest
The most illest, I do this for the Gods I build wit
My sons I chill wit, fam I stack the dollar bills wit
Duke, I swear this year, we seein the real brick
[Lidu Rock]
Ya niggas know this shit, right here, y'all
Ya niggas know this shit, right here
Muthafuckas better recognize this
Lidu Rock and Supreme enterprisin shit
Yo, represent New York, this is what we do
For the Bloods and the Crips and the Muslims too
And all my peoples in the vil, I'm other gassin that
And all my heads in the sty, down the block from the lap
We hold it down son, this is what we do
I used to rock uptown on 43rd and Drew
Hamilton, PJ's, down the block from Willie Burger
And down Sax, on 8th and 45th, man was murder
And QU2, wit one tenth and got brood
And one forty second in Rockaway, heads too
We remember you, and got love for y'all
Unity wit you and me, so that we all can brawl
[Supreme]
Aiyo, son, good lookin, big up my crooks in Brooklyn
Them grimy ass niggas that'll have your block shookin
Why you lookin? If you'se a problem, I'm a problem solver
Bust off my gun, shine like the son, come like the father
So don't bother, I keep my gun tucked in my parka
Why you wanna start pa? Come on, you know how all my sharks are
I rip apart y'all, fish niggas we fire guard
I retire squads, when I fire hard wit my dialogue
[Break]
Ya know this, everybody know this
Ya know this, I said ya know this, everybody know this
Ya know it
To all my people over here, all my peoples over there
All my peoples over there, hold it down this year
All my people over here, all my peoples over there
In my loneliness
When you're gone and I'm all by muself
And I need your caress
I just think of you
And the thought of you holding me near
Makes my loneliness soon disappear
Though you're far away
I have only to close my eyes
And you are back to stay
I just close my eyes
And the sadness that missing you brings
Soon is gone and this heart of mine sings
Yes I love you so
And that for me is all I need to know
I will wait for you
Till the sun falls from out of the sky
For what else can I do
I will wait for you
Meditating how sweet life will be when you come back to me
Yes I love you so
And that for me is all I need to know
I will wait for you
Till the sun falls from out of the sky
For what else can I do
I will wait for you
Meditating how sweet life will be when you come back to me
Meditation, to reach the highest highIn isolation, enshrouded by the night
Yes we're talking 'bout meditation
Encircled by the sea
Into salvation, a cure for you and me
Yes we're talking 'bout meditation
I've seen ghosts in empty dreams
Should I turn my eyes away
Or should I scream
All the dust in paradise
Winds that blow as cold as ice
Meditation is the cure that saves me now
Meditation, to reach the other side
Into salvation, how could I be so blind
Yes, we're talking 'bout meditation
Now I know what they mean
In isolation, the answers to my dreams
Yes, we're talking 'bout meditation
Hidden deep below my mind
Filled with disbelief
I couldn't reach the sky
Through the forest of the night
Guided by a ray of light
Assalatu wa as-salamu 'alayk
'alayka ya Rasul Allah,
Assalatu wa as-salamu 'alayk
'alayka ya Habib Allah;
Assalatu wa as-salamu 'alayk,
'Alayka ya sayyidi, (3)
'Alayka ya sayyidal awwalina wal akhirin.
Peace and salutations upon you O Messenger of Allah,
Peace and salutations upon you O Beloved of Allah;
Peace and salutations upon you,
Upon you O my Master, (3)
In my loneliness
When you're gone and I'm all by myself
And I need your caress
I just think of you
And the thought of you holding me near
Makes my loneliness soon disappear
Though you're far away
I have only to close my eyes
And you are back to stay
I just think of you
And the sadness that missing you brings
Soon is gone and this heart of mine sings
Yes I love you so
And that for me
Is all I need to know
I will wait for you
'Till the sun falls from out of the sky
For what else can I do
I will wait for you
Meditating how sweet life will be
When you come back to me
I will wait for you
Meditating how sweet life will be