Listening to Black metal terrorist by Denzel curry and then the Rob Burbea Metta and Emptiness retreat immediately after Sums up the vibe lately

@loopholekid I’m down !!

If I don’t play piano I morph into a slug

*attracts your attention* hi 🙃

If I die there are at least some fire one minute clips

U really don’t know someone until you start talking to them 1 on 1 This sounds obvious but is probably more true than u realize

/ creates new physical experience

@laudablelies yess i think the masters who wrote the most complex shit also understood how useful and beautiful those simple constructions were!

@laudablelies Not with the right upper structure triad ;) Eg D major over root position Eø7 (Tho IMO even ‘redundancy’ is often fine and used by many great jazz pianist )

Huh uh oh I’m motivated to practice music I actually care about now (Was never really motivated to practice music I don’t care much about)

What if: Others’ perception of my attractiveness will not on average be wildly different than my own perception of my attractiveness :0 That’d be crazy

@latentjuice :)

Musicians are funny they’ll be like “ngl bro I was folding on that last one” 🤣

@jonnym1ller @dthorson Makes sense What I take w me from him is to check if the ‘bare attention’ way of looking is secretly laced with aliveness-neutering judgements and whatnot Rather than the bare attention itself having that potential But I could see that for like monks trying to b mindful 24/7

Which is also why I think it’s good for ppl who are in the circle to know a bit about circling