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Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
I’m currently killing time in a Burbank coffee shop before I head back to the airport – an airport I left just a few hours ago. I’ve had quite a few days like this in the last month or so, any guess as to where my meeting was this afternoon? Between the recording last month for “Little Mermaid Live” and upcoming performances of “Coco Live in Concert” at the Hollywood Bowl I’ve been spending quite a bit of time doing work that seems far away from my classical roots. Hollywood is a very, very different world, with different expectations, different attitudes, different modes of operation. I’ve always been a big…
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It doesn’t look like anything to me
Those of you who are fans of the HBO series Westworld will recognized this quote as a running theme through the show. It’s the reflexive response of the “hosts” (robots) whenever they encounter something that their programming can’t possible comprehend. In a larger sense it’s a reaction borne of a limited, strictly prescribed perspective of a larger reality. This got me thinking about the Buddhist concept of dharma, or reality-as-it-is; Buddhist philosophy is based on the concept that human suffering arises from the disparity between a person’s view of reality and the actual state of things. I’m often made aware of how my own perspective colors and creates my own…