When asked by his young student about his exquisite tone, the old clarinetist said people live their whole lives knowing they die, knowing they could die any day and constantly imagining today is another day they can forget about it and pretend they live forever. What does that have to do with the wonderful tone you make on the instrument? The mind is like that, you can’t control it and yet constantly imagine you should and constantly experience failure of producing change through thinking; you live in a loop. Notice all your life you have been positioned to experience mind, you are not separate from it. But what’s the technique you use when blowing or tell me what is it you do with your embouchure? I just did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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