Bach and mindfulness
You can enjoy the organ works of Bach without being a Christian, even without believing i God.
I think Bach used the organ in Leipzig of pure joy. He often improvised, and reused old themes in his music. And from Leipzig the music has slowly spread over the whole world.
In that time there was also quite common to use the music of others, perhaps rearrange it a bit- a kind of recycling...
The music was not personal - was not your own.
So with mindfulness:
You don't have to be a Buddhist to practice it, you don't even have to know about Buddhism.
Buddhism, like the music of Bach, has no essence, it is made of non-Buddhist elements.
Furthermore, Buddha was no God, he was a human being like me and you and for shore he sometimes struggled.
So you can experiment with mindfulness and do it your own way - but it's important that you take it seriously and train as often as possibly. You should, just as you brush your teeth, do it everyday, at least for some minutes. And you can strive to make it a way of life...
The same for Bach and music; it's impossible to separate Bach and his music - he was music, for him music was everywhere.
Here a piece "Adorn Yourself, O Dear Soul" played at an organ, built in Bach's time, in the Cathedral of Freiburg.
I think Bach used the organ in Leipzig of pure joy. He often improvised, and reused old themes in his music. And from Leipzig the music has slowly spread over the whole world.
In that time there was also quite common to use the music of others, perhaps rearrange it a bit- a kind of recycling...
The music was not personal - was not your own.
So with mindfulness:
You don't have to be a Buddhist to practice it, you don't even have to know about Buddhism.
Buddhism, like the music of Bach, has no essence, it is made of non-Buddhist elements.
Furthermore, Buddha was no God, he was a human being like me and you and for shore he sometimes struggled.
So you can experiment with mindfulness and do it your own way - but it's important that you take it seriously and train as often as possibly. You should, just as you brush your teeth, do it everyday, at least for some minutes. And you can strive to make it a way of life...
The same for Bach and music; it's impossible to separate Bach and his music - he was music, for him music was everywhere.
Here a piece "Adorn Yourself, O Dear Soul" played at an organ, built in Bach's time, in the Cathedral of Freiburg.
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