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What is the Japanese philosophy of Ma?
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You know, in jazz, there's an expression, and I'm not quite sure who to attribute it to, but within the jazz circles, there's this expression that goes, it's all about the notes that you don't play. And I'm not sure, back when I first initially heard that phrase, that I truly understood the meaning of it. And that was until I experienced it myself. And now I wouldn't call myself any kind of proper musician, but I do like music. I'm musical. And I make music often. And the experience of having the idea to instead of continue to add notes to a melody or a composition that you're working on and having that inspiration to take a note away as a means of improving the composition and then when you play it back
And you realize the power that comes from the pause. It's like a paradigm shift. I think when that happened for me, it truly was a new way of not just thinking about music, but thinking about the world and the way I interact with it. Hello, my name's Andrew and today I'm going to talk about the Japanese concept of Ma. And if you've never heard of it before, the idea at first glance is rather simple. An attempt at a literal translation is something like emptiness or negative space or pause or break. But when you look into it and when you begin to see around the periphery of what is actually quite a complex, quite a nuanced idea, you'll begin to see that it really is something that's quite difficult to describe in words and much more easily understood by experiencing the power of it.
And this is why I use the example of music and jazz and the notes that you don't play. Because I think that was my first understanding of Ma. although at the time I was unaware of the concept. But it is, to try and explain further in words, more about the power that exists in the pause, that in fact
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