| Re: What do you think about when playing?
I think "not-thinking" is the point. If you meditate, you learn to keep attention on your breath - easily, gently. You let all the phenomena around you occur without reacting to them. Of course, this isn't perfectly achieved. We all get distracted. The point is to just come back to where you were.
This practice expands your awareness, but you react less to it. I find this sort of calm focus to be a good place to perform from. It's scary at first - because it feels like giving up control - but it actually increases your control by simplifying the whole process. Does that make any sense? |