A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Samadhi

World Religion
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A state of meditative consciousness in which the mind is fully absorbed in the object of meditation, often leading to union with the divine or ultimate reality.

Detailed Definition
In Buddhist and Hindu contemplative traditions, samadhi represents the culmination of meditative practice, where subject-object duality dissolves into pure awareness. In poetry, especially in yogic and Zen-inspired verse, samadhi symbolizes transcendence, inner stillness, and the ineffable unity beyond thought. Poets evoke it through imagery of light, silence, or boundless space to convey the depth of spiritual realization that words alone cannot capture.
Example
Example in poetry:
A meditation poem: “Samādhi is not trance—it’s the mind dissolved in its object, like salt in water”; In a modern verse, “In samādhi, ‘I’ vanishes—only awareness remains”; A minimalist reflection: “Samādhi: absorption as liberation”; A student’s lyric: “I chased samādhi—forgot it’s already here, behind the noise.”
Additional Notes
Samadhi is the eighth and final limb of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga. It is a state of deep meditative absorption where the mind becomes one with the object of meditation, and the sense of a separate self dissolves. There are different levels of Samadhi, culminating in a state of pure consciousness without an object. This state leads to the ultimate goal of Yoga: Kaivalya (liberation). It is the pinnacle of mental discipline.
Also Known As
Concentration Meditative Absorption
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