Music For Zen Meditation

I asked the boy beneath the pines

He said "The Master's gone alone

Herb-picking somewhere on the mount

cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown".

It is Thursday morning, the last day of February and the weather has returned to what you would expect at this time of year. I am listening to an album called Music For Zen Meditation And Other Joys by Tony Scott. It was recorded in Tokyo in 1964. It is amazing that it is 55 years old because it sounds so modern, yet at the same time so timeless. Tony Scott plays clarinet accompanied by Japanese table harp and bamboo flute. I have put one track called The Murmuring Of The Mountain Stream below if you would like to hear it. I love this music because it instills a feeling of calm in the listener. Don't think though that it is just one of those new-age relaxation albums.  This is music of pure class. Krishnamurti liked music and said that what is important is the silence between the notes. I think this is what Van Morrison meant in Hymns To The Silence. Music like this is so pure it makes some other music sound just like a trivial noise to distract people from thinking for themselves. I highly recommend this album.