Music

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Has anyone here ever done much "work" with music?

 

Tonight I listened to one of my favorite "pre-Realization" pieces,

Rimsky-Korsakov's symphony, "Scheherezade," lying down with closed eyes and

using Richard Moss's simple technique of breath in - observe - breathe out

- dissolve into/become.

 

I think now know why I don't listen to much music lately :-). It's safe to

say I didn't listen to this music at all. Rather, the music played me. In

a literal sense. I was stricken with heart palpitations, constant frissons

(chills up the spine) and sweating, at times I wept openly, at times tears

simply flowed from my eyes. At times I found that I was one of the

instruments in the music, playing itself. At others I simply was the

music. There was no listener or music listened to.

 

At the end I opened my eyes which were almost crusted shut. This was quite

an experience. I would encourage those like me who have always deeply

loved music to try the exercise of BECOMING the music rather than just

listening, of dissolving into it. But you should know there were times

during the symphony that the thought flitted through my mind, "I don't know

if I can survive through this next part, I don't know if I can take it."

Joy/Pain. My body survived, but my heart is still palpitating as I type this.

 

Tim

 

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