CREATING A GAP

To quote spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, “Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.”  In Vedanta this would read, “Every time you create a gap in the stream of the thinking mind, the light of the Atman/Brahman consciousness in you strengthens.” 

Classical music is one way to create this gap.  Classical music is abstract, free of ideas, concepts.  It is sound only.  Full orchestras may be too busy for some of us, too stimulating, too many ripples on the pond, as they say, but solo piano performances, by Lang Lang, for instance, who is popular now, but then also by Horowitz, Rubenstein, and Cliburn are the least agitating.  It is a still mind that allows the Atman/Brahman consciousness to surface.

After an hour of classical music, you will find that the walking meditation that you follow it with, if you choose to, feels utterly different, feels entirely altered, evidence that you remain in your Atman/Brahman consciousness.