Hi everyone, I've been very absent and have missed most of the last month. I just caught up with the last couple of days -
Dale I am also THRILLED you are moving on. I feel the world takes a step with you.
Jean, I would love to go to an anger meditation. Do tell! It's still the main issue for me - his and mine!
Beth, Good luck and lots of love this weekend.
Stray, you sound like you are dealing great in a very painful situation. I like the idea of not speaking so quickly, like not eating too quickly.
..;and evryone else. It's good to be back.
I just sat 'properly' for the first time in a month. I have grabbed the odd coach or beach or rehearsal moment, but i find being on tour very hard. I know to sit on tour regularly would help be be more centred, but it is an ongoing process.
I am home now and J and I just dealing with sorting out our threads. Alot going on for him helping his aged and ailing parents moving, and having been alone for so long, and for me having been away...we still seem to fall into anger more easily than feeling our disappointment and sadness, and therfore intimacy. It's a long road.
Big changed tho' for me. I have committed to going on an Arvon writing course in November and am taking - finally - the first steps to starting my own festival of music in the vines. I am sick of following other people's (often extremely egocentric) gestures. It feels very exciting and that I have turned the corner and am moving back towards home. I am sure meditation had helped me come to this point - listen and be still enough to hear my creative voice calling. i'm still here!
Wow, Ruth, the Arvon gig sounds great. (I had to google it; here in the sticks of America we've never heard of it.)
I'd think formal meditation on tour would be very hard -- everything is "just for now," and there's no structure or altar space to bring you back to it.
Yes, moving on. At the moment I'm appalled at the idiocy of giving up a lucrative, pleasant job with great benefits to do a tomfool thing like massage, but there's no doubt in my mind that I have to do it. I told my boss a couple weeks ago, unofficially, that I'll finish out the current project and then I'm leaving. So I haven't quite burnt my bridges, I guess, but I've soaked them with gasoline :-)
Dale: It is great that you are going for the massage 100%. It encourages me to attempt the same thing once I move - probably at the turn of the year. I feel ridiculously pleased about this news of yours .....
Anger. I'll be interested in Jean's report on this as well. I had a calm, peaceful sit this morning and then ten minutes later I had some news that had me thumping cushions - literally. It has passed now thank heavens. But anger is an emotion that frightens me a lot ... what it can turn me into.
Keri wrote last week about a class she’s taking. It’s called "Deep Listening" taught by Pauline Oliveros who was a contemporary of John Cage. Keri said, “she is like a zen monk, calm and centered” She lives in Kingston, and I think that’s somewhere near New York. They were instructed to bring a ‘found sound’ to class. Keri brought her bike wheel.
The possibilities are endless with the idea of ‘found sound’. what can you hear right now? right where you are sitting.
John Cage put Zen Buddhist beliefs into practice through music. He described his music as "purposeless play", but "this play is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out the way and lets it act of its own accord." (Hence his favorite Japanese Zen Buddhist saying Nichi nichi kore ko nichi -Every day is a good day.)
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Hi everyone, I've been very absent and have missed most of the last month. I just caught up with the last couple of days -
Dale I am also THRILLED you are moving on. I feel the world takes a step with you.
Jean, I would love to go to an anger meditation. Do tell! It's still the main issue for me - his and mine!
Beth, Good luck and lots of love this weekend.
Stray, you sound like you are dealing great in a very painful situation. I like the idea of not speaking so quickly, like not eating too quickly.
..;and evryone else. It's good to be back.
I just sat 'properly' for the first time in a month. I have grabbed the odd coach or beach or rehearsal moment, but i find being on tour very hard. I know to sit on tour regularly would help be be more centred, but it is an ongoing process.
I am home now and J and I just dealing with sorting out our threads. Alot going on for him helping his aged and ailing parents moving, and having been alone for so long, and for me having been away...we still seem to fall into anger more easily than feeling our disappointment and sadness, and therfore intimacy. It's a long road.
Big changed tho' for me. I have committed to going on an Arvon writing course in November and am taking - finally - the first steps to starting my own festival of music in the vines. I am sick of following other people's (often extremely egocentric) gestures. It feels very exciting and that I have turned the corner and am moving back towards home. I am sure meditation had helped me come to this point - listen and be still enough to hear my creative voice calling. i'm still here!
Love to all of you.
Wow, Ruth, the Arvon gig sounds great. (I had to google it; here in the sticks of America we've never heard of it.)
I'd think formal meditation on tour would be very hard -- everything is "just for now," and there's no structure or altar space to bring you back to it.
Yes, moving on. At the moment I'm appalled at the idiocy of giving up a lucrative, pleasant job with great benefits to do a tomfool thing like massage, but there's no doubt in my mind that I have to do it. I told my boss a couple weeks ago, unofficially, that I'll finish out the current project and then I'm leaving. So I haven't quite burnt my bridges, I guess, but I've soaked them with gasoline :-)
Hi Ruth! Good to have you back.
Dale: It is great that you are going for the massage 100%. It encourages me to attempt the same thing once I move - probably at the turn of the year. I feel ridiculously pleased about this news of yours .....
Anger. I'll be interested in Jean's report on this as well. I had a calm, peaceful sit this morning and then ten minutes later I had some news that had me thumping cushions - literally. It has passed now thank heavens. But anger is an emotion that frightens me a lot ... what it can turn me into.
Keri wrote last week about a class she’s taking. It’s called "Deep Listening" taught by Pauline Oliveros who was a contemporary of John Cage. Keri said, “she is like a zen monk, calm and centered” She lives in Kingston, and I think that’s somewhere near New York. They were instructed to bring a ‘found sound’ to class. Keri brought her bike wheel.
The possibilities are endless with the idea of ‘found sound’. what can you hear right now? right where you are sitting.
John Cage put Zen Buddhist beliefs into practice through music. He described his music as "purposeless play", but "this play is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out the way and lets it act of its own accord." (Hence his favorite Japanese Zen Buddhist saying Nichi nichi kore ko nichi -Every day is a good day.)
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