Thanks for this podcast, Mike! I trained as a classical musician where the instruction is often about the silence that surrounds a note - where the note sits in space. Both duration and pitch relate to space. Deliberately playing a note slightly sharp or flat, or slightly ahead or behind the beat is what makes music moving. It is the silence or space around a note that defines its character and moves (or doesn't move) our emotions. So, changing space, changes emotions. It seems I relearn that everytime I declutter my house, and I'm sure that is what meditation is doing to my thoughts.
That's fascinating. I get it theoretically but I have never thought of music this way -makes perfect sense. Wonder if I am going to be listening for the space between notes now:)
Thanks for this podcast, Mike! I trained as a classical musician where the instruction is often about the silence that surrounds a note - where the note sits in space. Both duration and pitch relate to space. Deliberately playing a note slightly sharp or flat, or slightly ahead or behind the beat is what makes music moving. It is the silence or space around a note that defines its character and moves (or doesn't move) our emotions. So, changing space, changes emotions. It seems I relearn that everytime I declutter my house, and I'm sure that is what meditation is doing to my thoughts.
That's fascinating. I get it theoretically but I have never thought of music this way -makes perfect sense. Wonder if I am going to be listening for the space between notes now:)
What if the empty space is the object and the stuff, thoughts and things are the empty space?