In My Mind’s Zen Garden

After almost 50 years of living on this Earth, I’ve come to believe that there is some sort of higher power or supreme being that created everything. That there is a God, and I have complete Faith that this God is everywhere and in all things. Just looking around me at the beauty of nature, and gazing into the sky at night. I look up in Awe.

Music, to me, is humankind’s effort at uplifting oneself to this God. No other creature on Earth performs on musical instruments other than humans, unless I’ve missed something somewhere…

But Music, in its purest musical forms, is uplifting and inspirational… giving hint to a higher consciousness and more divine world. At least, that’s how I’ve always conceptualized Music in my mind. And that is what I’ve personally strived for in creating and performing Music.

Some of my best personal performances in a Musical situation have been pretty uplifting to me. Not necessarily in a Gospel situation (though I have performed Gospel music throughout my life where it was truly inspirational) but rather in various random musical events in my life when I felt truly inspired and seemingly touched by the hand of God. There have been times when I’ve done drum solos and I didn’t know where certain moments came from and knowing that I probably couldn’t duplicate those moments again, yet knowing that I could drum up another moment again sometime.

Anyway, today’s title stems from my current mode of thinking with regards to Music. That one has to have faith that one can achieve something with the instrument one is playing, one must persevere and place oneself in a virtuous mode in dedicating oneself to the instrument of choice… and one has to take action by applying dedicated practice and rehearsals in order to become one with the instrument.

In my case, I’m feeling I’m becoming attached to the piano. I practice everyday, having goals but not really having expectations. The journey lies ahead and one doesn’t know what is going to actually happen. So that is the Faith part of it. Showing sincere dedication and fervor toward the instrument is definitely needed in order to apply the time and practice required to become more at one with the instrument.

Perhaps I’ve forgotten another word…. Love.

To me music has always been about Love. And Love has always been a motivating factor behind virtually all Music… Love for someone special, Love lost, Love for God, etc….

My Love for Music guides me in my daily practice. It’s like a Meditation on Love… on God… but either way, it is always uplifting and aspiring toward a higher cause… Music in its purest forms are the cosmic vibrations going through the ether… and sometimes I feel it is God, and we are just all trying to tap into those wondrous sounds that already exist throughout the universe and embedded in eternity….