Contemplative fieldnotes: My brother - a musician - asked me how he would go about using music to train attention. Playing around, using this masterpiece from James Holden - Renata https://youtu.be/2FmFXQSIzCo If anyone has played with music + meditation let me know.
That fully absorbed immersive experience you get playing a musical instrument is an every-day-life example of the fruit/result of lhatong (mi-gyo-wa, ‘no-movement’). I think it’s the most common example I’ve heard, & one I can relate to having been a musician.
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Ok that’s a really interesting connection you just made. So that is in the context of Sems De? In which case would you equate the indivisibility of the sound of music and the space of silence with ro-cig, or is that still at the level of lhatong?
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Yes (re sems de). The indivisibility in the context of the Ting-ne-dzin is nam-nyid (“not separate”) - next stage on from lhatong if you view them linearly. That occupies roughly the same position as ro-cig in Mahamudra terms.
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Sorry, nyi-mèd translates to “not separate” - that’s the practice that leads to nam-nyid/indivisibility.
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Thanks for clarification

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Thanks for sharing the reflective process. I loved the visuals on the Holden Renate piece you tweeted..they seemed like representations of pattern and nebulosity of mental processes.
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Yes - I believe they’re the work of
@feathersflys. I don’t do a lot of that long-form tweet threading but occasionally it’s fun and gets a good conversation going - as was the case here.
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