Gate Gate

The song that won us Best in the Northwest! We're the greatest middle school choir in our region. Too bad I don't have the video for the concert; we looked really cool. We still rock it with sound. ^^

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• gate gate
• choir
• middle school
• best in the northwest

[byodomusic]

Congratulation, this is really outstanding for a middle school choir. Cool that you sing such Mantras in school

About the meaning: There are several translations of the Gate Gate Mantra, one is :

Going, going, going on beyond, always going on beyond, always becoming Buddha

So in a sense it's about dying, for it's about going beyond. So let's celebrate :-)

[Kiaarria]

Thanks! I'm even kind of impressed, now that I'm in middle school. Cool stuff, huh?

Actually, all of those people in that choir have really matured into a greater sound now, too.

And yep; I always laughed about how it's a celebration about everyone dying.

[missyprez]

......... woa................. are you positive this is middle school? I have heard high school to college recordings of this that were horrible.... this is awesome! AMAZING. My college is singing this and it is very challengingggggggggggggg. Major Kudos!

[Kiaarria]

Yeah, I was in that choir last year. I'm an eighth grader now. ^^ Thanks.

[misspeytonblair]

my middle school varsity choir is singing this right now!!! im an alto and its sooo hard!!!!!!

btw you guys did a really good job :)

[silverpyro19]

my high school choir did this song and i absolutely loved it! You guys did a lot better then us XD

[OiraMela]

its not really about people dying its about finding peace and everyone existing equally after they have died and the joy and being free from the restraints and bonds of life. we sang it in our choir this year

[JRA218]

Taran ur right. its jeff. But our mens section is a little better but we would be a little better if Mr harden was still teaching

[purkey49]

well i go to claggett right now i in choir were sigig this song i love ha my name is taran purkey this song is kewl

[RalphyNoPants]

@Kiaarria It is about awakening for which death is a requirement. Buddhist tradition regards this world as nothing but a place of toil and suffering and the body, to be quite blunt, as nothing more than a sack of pus and shit. The best translation I have found, from Anthony C. Yu's The Monkey and the Monk, an abridgment of The Journey to the West, is "Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely gone beyond! O what an awakening! All hail!" (pg 273 in the footnotes). It is a celebration of escaping all

[sarahmiller0]

Too bad it's really quiet.

[YogaScot]

Hmmm... it's not really about dying, it's part of the Buddhist chant known as the Heart Sutra and it's about the end of suffering... bodhisvaha = awakening yourself form suffering...

[LongTimeNoSwing]

My high school choir is singing this! we love it!

[eeegthespaz]

Many cultures celebrate the life of a person rather than mourn the death of them. So it's really not all that strange that this song is a celebration of passing on to the next life.