Starting music school this week. I have already a homework assignment to analyze Beethoven's Symphony No.3. I also need to play for a piano instructor on Monday. I feel I am so behind and need to catch up. I so want to prove that I am a musician. Then I realize the anxiety is not right.

I should learn from Yoga that everything in life is like a breathing process. When I study music, music becomes the air, and I only need to take deep breath, let music air fill up my lung. When I breath out, it is the creative energy going through me and back into the world. There should be no other purpose than simply breathing in and out. Forget the self, the grade, the approval from expert... Listen not to self evaluation. There will be time for all of those. When learn music, breath in and out, and enjoy this gift from life.

Life is also like breathing. There is no goal, but only the process. Enjoy deeply while we can.

Eclipse and World Peace

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I am always moved when I see photos of people watching eclipse. When people from different backgrounds or cultures or colors in different corners of the world at the same time gaze toward the sky, there is no more fear, no more hatred, no more confusion. People become equal, and the world is at peace. This is a state when everyone forgets himself, and all is in one of amazement and joy. Perhapse we can use moments like this for a glimpse of world peace.

每次日蚀，这样一组照片总是令我感动。当不同背景不同文化不同肤色的人，在不同的角落，同时引目向上的时候，没有任何恐惧，没有任何仇恨，人心忽然变得高尚起来，人人平等，世界和平。这是“大忘我”的境界吧。也许我们可以用这种时刻，来品尝理想中的太平世界的味道。