Very nice examples of grace in the human body.
Thanks.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> Tonight I meditated in the garden of the house I'm
> staying in here in the French Pyrenees, and the
> Silence was so profound that even though I had
> intended to meditate only half an hour, I missed
> dinner. Three hours after sitting to meditate I
> finally had the thought to open my eyes, and found
> that it had grown dark around me. Cool.
>
> And, after an experience like that, I didn't really
> feel like dinner, so I retired to my part of the
> house and listened to the only music I could think
> of that matched the silence of that meditation.
> That music is Keith Jarrett's "The Koln Concert,"
> part IIb. I have always thought of it as Silence,
> flowing.
>
> If you have never seen Jarrett play solo, you have
> missed one of the great opportunities available to
> you on this planet. This very thin, very spiritual
> man walks out to the piano, sits down, without a
> clue as to what he is going to play that night,
> and just trusts Silence to guide him, and turn
> what he is feeling inside into music. Jarrett is
> "in the moment" personified, luring Silence into
> the world, in the form of music.
>
> And the amazing thing is that the Silence is still
> there, somehow *in* the music, as it flows from
> Jarrett's fingers, as if he were painting with
> light.
>
