Amen to Ram Dass, The Grist Of The Mill The image weve had of musicians is that of entertainers, you are playing music for other people to hear. As you begin to more clearly hear what the dance is about, you understand you are soul on the journey to your own liberation, and everything is grist for the mill, including your flute, (fiddle, pipes, voice) and your flute playing. Then you are doing what the Bhagavad Gita talks about, you are playing the flute as an offering to god. So you are playing it back into the circle. And as you use the flute playing as an act of purification, its no longer my flute, and it is not played for ego gratification. Its part of Sadhana, its an offering, the whole process is an offering. Then the flute playing starts to get pure and come from a higher and higher space. If you listen to, for example, Bismillah Khan play the shenai, you will hear a being who is playing to god, and that circle is so closed, its god playing to Itself. Other human beings simply listen in. And because its played that way, the subtle consciousness of the artist doesnt suck another person into being entertained. Because the separation between entertainer and entertained is a distinction between subject and object, its a distance between human beings. When you are part of the instrument of the music of god just playing to Itself, then anyone can tune in and become part of that same circle, theres only one of it. Theres no separation. The minute you think youre entertaining somebody, the minute you think youre feeding somebody, the minute you think theres a them out there...you just stopped the flow.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:25:06 +0000
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