Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art"There is an old Sanskrit word, lîla, which means play. Richer than our word, it means divine play, the play of creation, destruction, and re-creation, the folding and unfolding of the cosmos. Lîla, free and deep, is both the delight and enjoyment of this moment, and the play of God. It also means love. Lîla may be the simplest thing there is--spontaneous, childish, disarming. But as we grow and experience the complexities of life, it may also be the most difficult and hard-won achievement imaginable, and its coming to fruition is a kind of homecoming to our true selves."--Introduction, page 1. |
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... activity . The ideal - which we can approach but never fully reach , for we all get stuck from time to time - is ... activities of daily life the qualities of luminosity , depth , and simplicity - within - complexity that we associate ...
... activity . The ideal - which we can approach but never fully reach , for we all get stuck from time to time - is ... activities of daily life the qualities of luminosity , depth , and simplicity - within - complexity that we associate ...
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... activity defined by a set of rules , like baseball , sonnet , symphony , diplomacy . Play is an attitude , a spirit , a way of doing things , whereas game is a defined activity with rules and a playing field and participants . It is ...
... activity defined by a set of rules , like baseball , sonnet , symphony , diplomacy . Play is an attitude , a spirit , a way of doing things , whereas game is a defined activity with rules and a playing field and participants . It is ...
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... activity down to nothing , as in meditation , or involving us in a highly skilled and exhausting activity , as in dancing or playing a Bach partita , the ordinary boundaries of our iden- tity disappear , and ordinary clock - time stops ...
... activity down to nothing , as in meditation , or involving us in a highly skilled and exhausting activity , as in dancing or playing a Bach partita , the ordinary boundaries of our iden- tity disappear , and ordinary clock - time stops ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
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