The Wisdom of Insecurity
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
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#2My first exposure to this concept was in Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now". I look forward to reading Watt as well to gain further insight, thanks for sharing.
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#3"To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening"
This is a phenomenon I constantly battle internally in my consciousness when assessing the various layers of musical composition.
So if we stop ourselves from thinking about music as we listen, the result would then consist of "experiencing/feeling" music?
The mechanics of it being a mindless, automatic response to the auditory stimulation. (neurotransmitter release/binding)
I don't know where I'm going with this, but how do you all listen to/analyze/experience particular music of your liking?
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#4A nigger writes a GPU driver.
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#5"To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening" This is a phenomenon I constantly battle internally in my consciousness when assessing the various layers of musical composition. So if we stop ourselves from thinking about music as we listen, the result would then consist of "experiencing/feeling" music? The mechanics of it being a mi…
I become one with the vocalist, which is really fun with the varying amount of music I listen to. But, I also won't listen to music that I don't connect with, because music is such a personal thing for me.
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#6"To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening" This is a phenomenon I constantly battle internally in my consciousness when assessing the various layers of musical composition. So if we stop ourselves from thinking about music as we listen, the result would then consist of "experiencing/feeling" music? The mechanics of it being a mi…
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#7The joy of being lost in the moment, and to know we can only do that now, makes every moment valuable. But we find ourselves again and again telling ourselves stories about who we are, and who others are. I've been trying to piece together how it's possible to interact with others without this need for ego narrative, but haven't found the way just yet.
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#8The joy of being lost in the moment, and to know we can only do that now, makes every moment valuable. But we find ourselves again and again telling ourselves stories about who we are, and who others are. I've been trying to piece together how it's possible to interact with others without this need for ego narrative, but haven't found the way just yet.
Something struck me about love a moment ago... Perhaps the reason love seems elusive is that isn't reached directly, but is found as a byproduct of living in line with how you are.
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#9The obvious conclusion of this is that this implies you should have no goals for the future, you should work towards nothing, and just take life as it comes.
I feel that to be a little rediculous.
You can't control the future, but I feel that intelligent planning is important.
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#10"To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening" This is a phenomenon I constantly battle internally in my consciousness when assessing the various layers of musical composition. So if we stop ourselves from thinking about music as we listen, the result would then consist of "experiencing/feeling" music? The mechanics of it being a mi…
I think that for many people music is deeply connected with ideas about identity, such as "this is the kind of music I like" and "I am the kind of person who likes this kind of music". This is very visible in popular music, where how the performers look and who they are is as important as the music itself.
Because of this, the satisfaction of listening to music isn't only auditory or aesthetic, but also an identity satisfaction, of feeling one's ideas about oneself confirmed.
It's probably true that humans inject identity ideas into everything, so this is nothing special to music. But it's a strange situation, since music per se is the most abstract of the arts and this extra layer we put on top of it is so obviously extrinsic.