(December 20, 2014 at 3:01 pm)Elskidor Wrote: I've always thought meditation is just sitting around and thinking to yourself. I'm an introvert so I never found much use.
Not for me. Meditation for me is about getting out of my own way. Rather than thinking, it's about clearing the mind. I alluded earlier to writing or playing music as forms of meditation. The reason why I feel that to be true is that when I'm in the fervor of a creative jag, I am not egotistical, I am not imposing myself on the creative process; I am getting out of my own way.
I've been a musician for 35 years. My goal, when picking up a guitar and hoping to entertain folks, is not to play a song. My goal is to let the song play me. I clear my head and abandon notions and strive to be a functioning part of an instrument made of wire and wood and vacuum tubes and speaker paper and bone and sinew and soul. Done right, being a musician is being the music.
And that is a great form of meditation.
