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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Page 42
... technique . Technique itself springs from play , because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice , by persistently experiment- ing and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances . Creative work is ...
... technique . Technique itself springs from play , because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice , by persistently experiment- ing and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances . Creative work is ...
Page 67
... technique for expressing ourselves . But the technique can get too solid- we can become so used to knowing how it should be done that we become distanced from the freshness of today's situa- tion . This is the danger that inheres in the ...
... technique for expressing ourselves . But the technique can get too solid- we can become so used to knowing how it should be done that we become distanced from the freshness of today's situa- tion . This is the danger that inheres in the ...
Page 68
... technique and a full expression of spirit . No matter how expert we may become , we need to continually relearn how ... technique without exact repetition of some exercise in a book . But it also applies to the scales of dance , drawing ...
... technique and a full expression of spirit . No matter how expert we may become , we need to continually relearn how ... technique without exact repetition of some exercise in a book . But it also applies to the scales of dance , drawing ...
Contents
A New Flute | 1 |
Inspiration and Times Flow | 17 |
The Vehicle | 25 |
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