When I left my luggage at my friend's house, I couldn't wait to walk halfway between the mountains and the water. I found it near the piano hall by feeling. After asking a few people, I'm sure a black house is half mountain and half water. There is no signboard, just a few simple letters MOL, which is also low-key. Entering the piano hall is like entering the Peach Blossom Garden. Without looking closely, I came to the second floor, where Teacher Dongdong was waiting for tea. I gave my teacher a big hug as soon as we met. This hug started a happy journey to Xi.
Wang Dan took me to visit the piano hall. The basement of the piano hall is unpretentious, like the cement color of a blank. It seems that designers or owners advocate simplicity and nature, but they have high aesthetic requirements. This can be felt from the supplies and furnishings inside the piano hall, which is very artistic and unique everywhere. One side of the stairs is designed as a patchwork showcase, a corner, a porch or a smart and elegant flower arrangement, or a meaningful painting. On the wall, on the piano table, there is an ancient piano kissed by teacher Zhao Kai. Even the bathroom shows feelings. There are actually two kinds of landscapes in a small space, one is natural landscape. Under the bamboo curtain, there is a dead branch with a few yellow leaves, and two large stones, such as mountains and rivers, stand in a pebble, which is quite Zen. There is also a small bookcase with several books in it. What is commendable is that there is no embarrassment in such an artistic environment.
So the impression of the piano hall and teachers is: low-key, natural, warm and elegant.
The next day, the students were all here, and everyone sat together for tea and chat, and there was no strangeness at all.
During the chat, Teacher Dongdong talked about learning to accept as a teaching assistant. Accept the imperfection of yourself and others, don't resist, don't ask for perfection of yourself and others, but it doesn't mean that you don't have a competitive heart. You should do your best, but don't be held back by that thing.
From this, I think I play the piano very tightly, but when I look deeper, I feel very tight. The reason is that I want to do well, to be perfect, to do well, and to be affirmed by others. In fact, I don't know what is good and perfect. It's a delusion, my brain is delusional, and I can't relax when I do things and play the piano.
So when we play the piano and do things, we must first perceive them and then accept them as they are, not as we hope. When awareness becomes sharper, acceptance becomes wider, boundaries become bigger, accumulation becomes richer, and we may become better.
One of the gains of this party is Wang's sharing.
Calm and healthy
The most important energy in the universe is balance. If we put ourselves in a state of balance, it is a state of health. There are external and internal factors affecting health. The external causes are diet, exercise and nutrition, and the internal causes are emotional changes. Learn to deal with restless emotions, such as telling stories and writing memoirs. Another simple way is to have a healthy ball.
Specific usage of Xinping fitness ball
This method can open the meridians of the whole body and relax your hands. The more relaxed your hands are, the better you play the piano.
Feet shoulder width apart, one third of the chair, relax, and pull your chest back out. When you relax, your blood is smooth. Yongquan point on the sole of the foot leads to the ground, and the cold, toxin and moisture generated during the operation of qi and blood are discharged downward through Yongquan point.
Imagine that you have a ball (balloon or rubber ball) in your hand, your feet are parallel, your left hand holds the ball below, your right hand is above, your palms are opposite, and you rotate counterclockwise. Don't go over your chest, put your restless emotions into the ball and start rubbing it. In fact, it is to clean up the uneasy emotions (worry, anxiety, fear, tension, etc.). ) in the subconscious. For example, the specific operation of cleaning up restless emotions when practicing the piano: let Panasonic come, let Panasonic come, don't chase, don't live, and ignore all restless emotions, States and atmosphere from the first day of playing the piano. From then on, I stopped paying attention to it and began to clean up.
This method can be used in many aspects, and the unstable emotions encountered in work and life can be cleaned up by this method.
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I have changed, and you will get better and better.
The more things you can accept and accommodate, the higher the realm.
The more you want to do something or get something, you will encounter setbacks, which is an invisible balance.
Under the guidance of fate, I spent a night with Ying Fei, and I felt her peace, wisdom, happiness, nature and powerful energy in a short time. Learn to meditate with her, learn to collect gas, and ask her where it is suitable to collect gas. Her answer is simple: when you feel comfortable in a place, that place is suitable for gas collection.
What she told me deeply influenced me: from now on, tell yourself I love you every day, tell every cell of yourself, and keep injecting energy into yourself. If you live well, your relatives and people around you will live well.
Thank you for meeting such a smart and energetic classmate!
Before coming to Xi, Teacher Dongdong said that Zhang Daochang might not be in Zhong Nanshan. This visit to the Taoist priest is also a rare fate.
Thanks to Wang Xiaohong and Li Guobin for driving us into the mountains, which saved us a lot of trouble.
Along the way, all we saw were layers of forests. There were many persimmon trees on the mountains on both sides of the road, which were mature, showing attractive orange-red, slow and cool mountain wind, warming the autumn sunshine and reaching Nanshan, which was beautiful.
Start the tour along the mountain road with a stream nearby.
This mountain road is not all steps. Some places are steep gravel slopes, which are not easy to walk. At first, I was in a hurry to climb, and my back ached and my legs ached. Later, I stopped and walked slowly on the mountain path covered with yellow leaves of chestnut trees, watching the flow of streams, smelling the fragrance of unknown wild flowers, looking back at the scenery behind me and enjoying the climbing process, without feeling tired.
I think playing the piano and life are the same. Eager to achieve something, not only tired, but also missed many experiences and scenery. As for the destination, as long as the road is right, I will always arrive.
Inadvertently saw a roof, the classmate said, I saw a bamboo forest in front, along a winding path, a Chai Men appeared in front of me, with a sign hanging on it, which read:
Why do you have to ask about the troubles of floating life?
Knowing this trace is a dream.
Mao Peng is as quiet as a child.
Mountain spring smells Zen wind.
As soon as I entered Chai Men, four big red characters "Bright" engraved on a big stone came into view, and I instantly felt out of the world of mortals and came to a peaceful and blessed land. I vaguely feel that my mood and life will be different from now on when I step into this yard.
A short walk ahead is another Chai Men with a sign with only two striking words: "Awakening". It seems that awakening is a very difficult thing, and we need to constantly remind the world.
After these two Chai Men roads, we came to the residence of the Taoist priest. Two houses with Chinese doors and windows are on a relatively open flat land, and we need to climb several steps. The steps are between a bamboo forest and a clear pool, and teachers and students have been sitting with the Taoist priest for tea.
When I met the Taoist priest, he was wearing white trousers, with gray hair tied to his head with a hairpin, a gray beard and chest, and bright eyes. Talking and laughing with everyone.
Taoist priests are relaxed and lively, humorous, and have wisdom inadvertently. When drinking a cup of tea, the Taoist priest said, don't worry about drinking this tea. I got it with wisdom and energy, not greed and delusion. Yes, people in the world earn a lot of money. They are all driven by greed and ignorance, and they can't stay or get poisoned.
Drink tea, talk and laugh, taste wisdom and have fun! Two magpies were also infected and flew around. The monks played tambourines on the spur of the moment. In the cheerful rhythm, the monks sang like Hong Zhong, and we couldn't help being infected and dancing with the rhythm.
Next, the Taoist priest recited the Heart Sutra. Although he doesn't know its meaning, he feels calm only when he sings it. A classmate later said that when he saw the Taoist singing the Heart Sutra, the two magpies were flying quietly on the roof. The Taoist priest finished singing and flew away. I've heard of this kind of thing before, but I experienced it today. All living things are conscious and spiritual, so we should always have compassion and awe.
After singing, I continued chatting and drinking tea, perhaps inadvertently or intentionally. Taoist suggested drinking vinegar, which was a bit confusing. How to drink vinegar? The Taoist priest took out a bottle of vinegar and a bottle of wild honey and opened it. It was fragrant and sweet. The Taoist priest said half seriously and half jokingly that the next three years will be an outbreak of cancer, and whoever owns it will have life. Originally, it was health vinegar, and the ambassador interrupted it in three and a half sentences: honey. This made everyone laugh. Teacher Dong Wang began to prepare vinegar tea. She poured some vinegar and two spoonfuls of wild honey into the cup, and then poured some streams from the side. A large cup of vinegar tea is ready. Everyone drinks separately, and the slight acidity of vinegar, the sweetness of honey and the coolness of spring water are perfectly integrated. The golden bell cypress powder I drink next has a strong pine fragrance, which is a unique natural taste in Zhong Nanshan, and I will never forget it.
Time flies, I have to go. The Taoist sent me outside the first Chai Men and went out for a while. I looked back at the Taoist priest and came across the sentence in Chai Men: Knowing this trace is a dream.
Fate or origin, who knows!
I understand that Mr. Wu Na and Mr. Hongbo came to Xi 'an to meet customers on 26th. This opportunity is not to be missed. Stay for two more days and wait for them.
At 2 pm on the 26th, two teachers arrived as scheduled, and the guests were already waiting halfway up the mountain. As soon as Mr Wu Na appeared, he sat quietly and everyone followed him. The scene was quiet and he could hear the sound of breathing. Then the piano sounded, and in such a quiet environment, the piano sounded purer. Teacher Wu Na began to improvise the piano, and in the artistic conception of poetry and painting, the sound penetrated into his heart.
Teacher Wu Na's sharing began with the extreme performance of an Indian female singer. This Indian female singer is a venerable old man. She often sings for three days and nights, and tens of thousands of people in the audience will be fascinated. In fact, the singer sang Sanskrit in ancient India, and few people could understand it. Everyone was attracted by the sound and entered a realm. Everyone settled down and got an endless rest in the sound. They no longer need to rely on external melodies to meet the needs of life. At that time, the audience and singers under the stage merged their lives in a purely natural time and space.
The same is true of guqin, which combines nature, heaven and earth and people in pure tone.
Then Miss Wu Na shared her recent thoughts.
An admirable interior designer will not use luxurious decoration materials, but will polish the cement floor brightly. The wall is plain white, but very flat. Only when everything is right will it look good.
The feeling gained by this way of doing things is valuable, and it is people's heart and hard work.
This logic of doing things is the same for practicing guqin. Why do you emphasize meditation and repeat a lot of exercises before playing the piano every time? After many times of patient practice, I have accumulated a lot and have time in it. Don't worry about the nonstandard handwriting, these fingering techniques have already been integrated into the bone and blood. You can completely immerse yourself in the torrent of sound and integrate yourself with the piano, piano sound and nature. This state is beyond the reach of many people all their lives. Therefore, we believe that there is the possibility of this state at the starting point, but we must settle down and know why we do it again and again. In fact, it is training, not only our bodies, but also our hearts. It is possible to really benefit from both internal and external training, otherwise even if you play for 20 years, you will still wander in the same place.
There is enough effort at the source to have the freedom to do whatever you want.
Many things in life reveal this truth everywhere. If you have never worked hard at all, putting more things is redundant and a burden. So we should work hard from the source to make it stable and deeply rooted. This is saving lives. Then the whole life is an extremely clean space, and everything is beautiful. Learning the piano should be such a road, and this road is the Tao.
The most precious thing for a person is to walk on the real road. In fact, it is not difficult to understand and know, but it is difficult to know and not to go. This is related to the unity of knowledge and action. Therefore, when we practice the piano or calligraphy, we train the unity of knowing and doing in life, but this knowledge must be true knowledge, not wishful thinking. If it is true knowledge, it is difficult to do it, but once it is done, every step is close to the original strength, and our life will be more joyful.
What is the relationship between learning piano and life, and what help does it have to life? This is the most important thing, otherwise learning the piano is meaningless and empty talk. Students who can settle down in school can slowly go their own way through the piano and slowly make their lives complete, rich and beautiful through piano acquisition. Sometimes unhappiness is caused by one's own mind. Many times, when a person's mind changes slightly, everything changes, and the difficulty lies in that change. I believe that by learning the piano, everyone can know the importance and ability of turning.
What we can see and think of depends on ourselves, so there is nothing outside our hearts.
The sharing between Mr. Wu Na and Mr. Hongbo was wonderful. In view of the limited space and ability, I can only write so much.
This trip to Ann has yielded too much, just like Sakura Fei's classmates collecting gas. I collected the essence of heaven, earth and people in Xi 'an, a land of feng shui, and nourished my body and mind. The next step is to integrate knowledge with practice and be a unified person, as Mr. Hong and Mr. Wang said.
Thank all the people I met in Xi 'an with this article!