Re: 8/13 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Buddhanandi
Hi folks,
prodded by Taigu's stick out of lurk mode again....
I got very lost in Cook this week, especially in the cranes in the distance part but I found Hixon very useful in extracting and re-presenting what was going on.
It's weird that I've had this same sort of message crop up in my life from at least three different sources this week. Maybe the repetition is because I'm still not getting it!
I was reminded of Elvis Costello's quote:
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do."
Its pointlessness of course doesn't stop anyone from writing about music, (or discussing truth or flavours and all the rest), and to deliberately not write about it in protest against the act of music journalism, as if that was some sort of purer stance, equally falls short.
Here's another thought that might need straightening out by others:
When I hear music I almost immediately convert it into 'my' story: (I like/dislike this sound; I understand what the composer was doing; I know someone who would love this; now we're getting to the part where... ; this reminds me of... )
I think probably everyone else does something similar too. Patterning experience is what we unavoidably do as humans. But where is the story, the pattern (the little 'I' that is busy making them)?
But still, inevitably, the music reaches me and in fact there would be no music if I didn't hear it. Maybe to paraphrase Tung-shan: Certainly [it]is me, but the deaf, foolish listener that I am is not [it].
Now, what was going on with all those cranes?
gassho,
Monkton
Hi folks,
prodded by Taigu's stick out of lurk mode again....
I got very lost in Cook this week, especially in the cranes in the distance part but I found Hixon very useful in extracting and re-presenting what was going on.
It's weird that I've had this same sort of message crop up in my life from at least three different sources this week. Maybe the repetition is because I'm still not getting it!
I was reminded of Elvis Costello's quote:
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do."
Its pointlessness of course doesn't stop anyone from writing about music, (or discussing truth or flavours and all the rest), and to deliberately not write about it in protest against the act of music journalism, as if that was some sort of purer stance, equally falls short.
Here's another thought that might need straightening out by others:
When I hear music I almost immediately convert it into 'my' story: (I like/dislike this sound; I understand what the composer was doing; I know someone who would love this; now we're getting to the part where... ; this reminds me of... )
I think probably everyone else does something similar too. Patterning experience is what we unavoidably do as humans. But where is the story, the pattern (the little 'I' that is busy making them)?
But still, inevitably, the music reaches me and in fact there would be no music if I didn't hear it. Maybe to paraphrase Tung-shan: Certainly [it]is me, but the deaf, foolish listener that I am is not [it].
Now, what was going on with all those cranes?
gassho,
Monkton
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