The Sufi Master, Hazrat Inayat Khan says:
“There are different ways of listening to music.
There is a technical state when a person who is developed in technique
and has learned to appreciate better music, feels disturbed by a lower grade of music.
But there is a spiritual way,which has nothing to do with technique.
It is simply to tune oneself to the music;
therefore the spiritual does not worry about the grade of the music.
No doubt, the better the music the more helpful it is to a spiritual person;
but at the same time one must not forget there are lamas in Tibet
who do their concentrations and meditations while moving a kind of rattle,
the sound of which is not especially melodious.
They cultivate thereby that sense which raises a person by the help of vibration
to the higher planes.
There is nothing better than music as a means for the upliftment of the soul.”
How do you listen to music?
How do you feel when you are listening to music?
How do you feel when you listen to players who are better than you?
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This is very exiting. And very true. I love the way sound can touch people, especially in the pure physical way- through the air. It’s magic. And any kind of music, of any standard can be the key sound you need that very day to learn something important, or just to feel more like yourself or something. That is also magic. It’s not always the superb performances by the master orchestras and master conductors that do the trick, sometimes it’s the folksinger on the subway singing that rythm, melody or word you need to hear, whether it sooths or provokes you, it belongs to you that very day. Those things make me be sure there are angels in the sky and all of that. Amazing. Magic. Thank you Kenny.