Michael Waters: Music as a Spiritual Practice

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"The difference between approaching it as a spiritual practice and approaching it as a craft is that when approaching is at a craft the question is "How good can I get in my lifetime?", and that's what you work on, nothing else really matters. But when you focus on something as a spiritual practice what you are doing is personally you are approaching it in a context of that which is before you were born and after you are gone, and those places count. In other words, your whole trajectory through life, whatever you encountered is on that table when you approach that art. All of your questions and answers, challenges and accomplishments, they're all involved when you put your finger to string, or your pen to paper, or your foot to the dancefloor. And this changes everything to approach it in that way. It is not like a craft at all. A whole different set of parameters are in play if you approach it in this way".