Nothing
Hello!
I've got nothing to write about. So here it is.
Nothing is my mental target for playing and everything. To have nothing in my mind is the perfect thing. Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts - I can't do it, I CAN do it, all of that is so distracting.
The thoughts in my mind are the evidence that I am not calm yet, just as much as the feelings in my body. With calmness there will be no awareness of myself as an individual, and no feeling of having a body - no feeling of being aware of what I am doing, just natural movement.
Perfect technique is the perfect way of producing sound, with no limitations or obstacles. This includes both the physical execution as well as the understanding - they both define what the sound needs to be.
It's possible to find calmness.
Luckily!
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To think and feel nothing isn't bad, in case it sounds not quite right to you. It just means that the "little you" will stop bothering you for the time you are calm.
You will stop seeing yourself as an individual with a personality and problems and all kinds of things like that, and feel sort of outside yourself, a feeling of being joined up to the outside of you.
When you don't notice the time flying past, when you are happy and forget yourself for a few minutes (or ages or no time at all), when you play something and can't remember what you did afterwards - that's a sign of the same thing.
You've felt it, haven't you?
But sometimes it's hard to get there.
A quick way of explaining it is to say: the common way is selfish, the other, inspired, happy, unusual way is selfless.
But selfish normally means things like hiding chocolate from children to eat later and other sneaky business like that. Here the word is the same, but it means "conscious of self", "attached to your own self", that sort of thing.
Anyway, I have nothing to criticise you for. You are pretty good. You are reading this!
*******
More nothing soon.
I've got nothing to write about. So here it is.
Nothing is my mental target for playing and everything. To have nothing in my mind is the perfect thing. Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts - I can't do it, I CAN do it, all of that is so distracting.
The thoughts in my mind are the evidence that I am not calm yet, just as much as the feelings in my body. With calmness there will be no awareness of myself as an individual, and no feeling of having a body - no feeling of being aware of what I am doing, just natural movement.
Perfect technique is the perfect way of producing sound, with no limitations or obstacles. This includes both the physical execution as well as the understanding - they both define what the sound needs to be.
It's possible to find calmness.
Luckily!
*******
To think and feel nothing isn't bad, in case it sounds not quite right to you. It just means that the "little you" will stop bothering you for the time you are calm.
You will stop seeing yourself as an individual with a personality and problems and all kinds of things like that, and feel sort of outside yourself, a feeling of being joined up to the outside of you.
When you don't notice the time flying past, when you are happy and forget yourself for a few minutes (or ages or no time at all), when you play something and can't remember what you did afterwards - that's a sign of the same thing.
You've felt it, haven't you?
But sometimes it's hard to get there.
A quick way of explaining it is to say: the common way is selfish, the other, inspired, happy, unusual way is selfless.
But selfish normally means things like hiding chocolate from children to eat later and other sneaky business like that. Here the word is the same, but it means "conscious of self", "attached to your own self", that sort of thing.
Anyway, I have nothing to criticise you for. You are pretty good. You are reading this!
*******
More nothing soon.
