The Slowing or Being the Music
'The Slowing' a one-minute meditation
Be slow and know that you are Love
Be slow and know that you Are
Be slow and Know
Be Slow
Be
Breathe in slowly, through the nose, before reciting each line
From Joe Zarantonello
I found the above little meditation the other day on a good friend's page who is a zen practitioner. It struck me as particularly pertinent to being slow with the lute too. I write in another post about erroneously rushing with glee towards the music, only to find the most important thing was actually the way to it (which you rushed!). The path leading to playing the piece exactly the way you want to play it, is exactly the process you need to go through to get to mastery, at whatever level. That's why I playfully like to replace the word love in the first line with Music... Try it.
Be slow and know that you are Love
Be slow and know that you Are
Be slow and Know
Be Slow
Be
Breathe in slowly, through the nose, before reciting each line
From Joe Zarantonello
I found the above little meditation the other day on a good friend's page who is a zen practitioner. It struck me as particularly pertinent to being slow with the lute too. I write in another post about erroneously rushing with glee towards the music, only to find the most important thing was actually the way to it (which you rushed!). The path leading to playing the piece exactly the way you want to play it, is exactly the process you need to go through to get to mastery, at whatever level. That's why I playfully like to replace the word love in the first line with Music... Try it.
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