Leigh Marz
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48 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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So the kanji character is a temple gate with slats through it, and there's golden sunlight pouring through those slats. That's the kanji character of ma. So the synonym for silence, for emptiness, but pure potentiality, which is found in the artwork of
say ikebana flower arrangements, where the petals and the leaves of the art piece are important and featured, but so is the silence around that, the emptiness around that. Or in scroll painting, the swoosh of the brushstroke is what's at the center of the scroll, but the empty space around it is also of equal importance.
And we find that in conversation, there's more emptiness and more space to reflect. So it really trickles throughout the culture.
What I mean by that is that there's something inherently close to sharing silence. There's something that creates an intimacy in that space. And of course, when we think about rituals and ceremonies, often those moments of shared silence, they feel pretty transformational. It's a little hard to explain. It's a little bit in the realm of the ineffable.
But what I notice in those shared moments of like a wedding or even a funeral or something, when there's just some silence where the collective is holding that silence together, it's not just the poignancy or the importance of that moment, the sacredness of that moment is shared. And I feel like we come out different people with a different sense of connection.
Yeah, it's an old technology. This is not a new hack. We've been doing this for a long time. And our argument is really just we need to bring a little bit more space in for more silence. We've swung a little too far in one direction. Let's swing it back.
Oh, thanks, Mike.
Meg Christen coined the phrase women's music, but she would have liked to say it was lesbian music.
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