Bigger Music, larger scores
Brain State Technologies with Lee Gerdes. View the video to the end. It is about 42 min. long.
After viewing the video of a woman's brain changing dramatically from depression to complete spectrum brain function in about 17 minutes, I was galvanized. At first I was extremely eager to get this kind of brain training first-hand. But the most gratifying thing I realized, in sitting zazen, was that this full-spectrum of consciousness is available to us at all times and in all places.
It is as if we are sitting in the middle of a great orchestra, not just some tinny ragtag community band, but an immense, powerful orchestra with Yo Yo Ma on cello, for example. The musicians are sitting patiently with their instruments, tuned and waiting, while the ego keeps banging out, with two fingers on a grand piano, simple renditions of the only tunes it knows: You Are My Sunshine, Stormy Weather, Am I Blue. Over and over and over again the same notes, the same mistakes and blunders, the same tortured approach. We get better at those songs, slowly and painfully...the conductor waits at the podium. As long as we are a willing audience, the madness continues. We are truly the stream the Buddha described us as: I saw the pictures of it on Gerdes' computer monitor. And now I see that it is time for the conductor to tap the baton on the podium and summon the full orchestra into dynamic, harmonic action. The concert hall is life itself; the music is the breath, to which the entire orchestra becomes attuned and organized. The full range of music belongs to us, not the hapless plinking of the ego obsessively repeating the same trivial pop songs over and over and over again. The audience wants more, the whole score, the whole orchestra fully immersed in the vast symphony of this life. All of this is just waiting for us right now.
After viewing the video of a woman's brain changing dramatically from depression to complete spectrum brain function in about 17 minutes, I was galvanized. At first I was extremely eager to get this kind of brain training first-hand. But the most gratifying thing I realized, in sitting zazen, was that this full-spectrum of consciousness is available to us at all times and in all places.
It is as if we are sitting in the middle of a great orchestra, not just some tinny ragtag community band, but an immense, powerful orchestra with Yo Yo Ma on cello, for example. The musicians are sitting patiently with their instruments, tuned and waiting, while the ego keeps banging out, with two fingers on a grand piano, simple renditions of the only tunes it knows: You Are My Sunshine, Stormy Weather, Am I Blue. Over and over and over again the same notes, the same mistakes and blunders, the same tortured approach. We get better at those songs, slowly and painfully...the conductor waits at the podium. As long as we are a willing audience, the madness continues. We are truly the stream the Buddha described us as: I saw the pictures of it on Gerdes' computer monitor. And now I see that it is time for the conductor to tap the baton on the podium and summon the full orchestra into dynamic, harmonic action. The concert hall is life itself; the music is the breath, to which the entire orchestra becomes attuned and organized. The full range of music belongs to us, not the hapless plinking of the ego obsessively repeating the same trivial pop songs over and over and over again. The audience wants more, the whole score, the whole orchestra fully immersed in the vast symphony of this life. All of this is just waiting for us right now.
