Everything New!!!

Dropping concepts, living in direct perception, awareness.

Doing this while playing music lately!

I do a lot of gigs where I play the same music, often in largely the same way; Japanese weddings, convention band gigs; to an extent, Lewers. Even though I try to avoid it, I’ve often gotten into “automatic pilot” mode - playing the same stuff in the same way, automatically.

But lately, practicing direct perception, dropping concepts, even music I play all the time, and have played for a long time, has become new, every time!!

I think the key to this is dropping the concepts of “I’m playing”, “Oh yeah, here’s this tune again”, and “I’m playing this gig again”. When these are dropped, I’m just here, now! In fact, no “I” either - only the playing, here, now!

When this happens, wonderful new ideas appear! More expression happens!

And I can carry this practice over to the rest of my life!

Every moment is new!

Great discovery, great joy is always happening!

Cool!!!