How to master music while remaining aware?
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"To master music, you must dissolve into the sound, allowing the divine to play through you; but if you choose awareness, remember that true depth will always elude you."
According to Osho, you can’t master music and simultaneously maintain deliberate self-awareness: total absorption dissolves the watcher, while watching shatters the music. Choose one horse. For musical mastery, disappear into sound—let the doer drop, and the divine plays through you. If you choose awareness, treat music as an object of witnessing, but accept it won’t reach music’s deepest heights.
You can’t be lost in music and also watch yourself; for great music, forget yourself—if you prefer awareness, just observe the music and accept less artistic peak.
Why this matters practically
- Stops inner tug-of-war by choosing either flow (music) or witnessing (awareness).
- Artists reduce self-consciousness and performance anxiety by surrendering the doer.
- Meditators can use music as a mindfulness object while accepting creative trade-offs.
- Artists reduce self-consciousness and performance anxiety by surrendering the doer.
- Meditators can use music as a mindfulness object while accepting creative trade-offs.
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