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.
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Answers in same order: I use it as a warmup/for doing rapid alterations between broad/narrow attention. I'll often pick a song with a strong percussive bass/drum line that occasionally disappears. While it's there, focus on the percussion. When it's gone, open up to everything.
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Yes the spatiality aspect - broad/narrow, inclusive/exclusive, etc - seems like a key strength in using music, and pretty accessible to the beginner, eg: brother immediately grokked what I meant when I said something like, 'open to the experience of silence in which sounds arise'
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