John McLaughlin - zakir hussain. - Shakti

Músico de formação jazzística partícipe da milenar música sagrada hindu, corroborando o axioma dos Rishis : "Não há religião superior à verdade". As musas da beleza sublime não conhecem fronteiras geográficas ou culturais.

A influência espiritual de John McLaughlin por ele mesmo (www.johnmclaughlin.com) :

For the last 10 years I have systematically revised all my spiritual influences. They remain a constant inspiration to me. They are primarly:

- Karen Armstrong and her affection for the mystic dimension of Islam and the Sufis. One can hear the beauty of this dimension in the Qawwali music of the Rizwan-Muazzam group, or the even better known, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan recordings.
- The writings of Carlos Castaneda on the subject of Don Juan and Don Gennaro.
- The translations of the great Taoist, Chuang Tzu by Father Thomas Merton, himself a great inspiration to me.
- The works of D.T. Suzuki on the subject of Zen and the Japanese Mind.- D.E. Harding with his writings on the true nature of the Universe and Consciousness.
- Aldous Huxley, especially his treaty on Religion and Politics in the book ¬Grey Eminence¬.
- The Chan poetry from China from the 6th to the 17th centuries.
- The sayings of Ramana Maharshi.
- The sayings of Sri Ramakrishna and his most celebrated disciples : Brahmanada and Vivekananda.
- Fritjof Capra and ¬The Tao of Physics¬.
- Last but by no means least, the great Alan Watts and his works on the elucidation of Zen for the Western mind, and his other works on Asian thought.