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"When silence occurs, then you can look interiorly and find an order and a purpose that the noise of the media running day and night obscures. So, likewise, the chant, which is pure, a single melody, is not complicated, arises out of silence and goes back into it, as a way of returning to that interiority." Stanford Professor William Mahrt on the value of chant today.
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I love that quote. This sounds like statements I make about Chinese medicine. There is pop Cartesian/Aristotelian media always running in the brain, which is a cause of common illness of mind, body, and spirit. Turn it off! Be in the body fully in this moment! Allow primordial wellness to arise unobscured!
Interiority. I like that term. I've been using the term "Inwardism" in the context of Inflow and Outflow of consciousness. Who's shakuhachi playing can reach the most profound depths of Inflow?... with the flute as vehicle for a complete and total journey inward?
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