145 – How Often Do You Speak the World’s Universal Language?
What is the Universal Language?
Good morning, folks! I am Jin with Morning Mindfulness Podcast. Hope you are having a Fabulous Friday! Today is January First, 2016. Happy New Year! Let’s breathe and smile.
Now let’s talk about the Universal Language…
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Many years ago, my teacher said to me, if you take all the languages in the World, every song, every piece of music, they all sound so different. However, they all have a common denominator. They have a component that is universal to all of them. That component is silence. You remove the silence, and all that music and languages will become just a white noise. It won’t make any sense.
He said, “Jin, you might’ve been looking at a wrong media. It is not the sound. It is the silence that is information carrier.”
I won’t go into philosophy. But look at Japanese culture. The silence, called “MA” in Japanese, is more important than the sound. Sumi-e artist will draw a small picture in the corner of a large canvas, leaving the rest of it white. The elements in the Japanese garden and architecture are not really ornaments. They are rather dividers of the space. Think about this concept as I live you alone with some music.
Now let’s breathe and smile. Thanks for stopping by. I will talk to you next time.
PEACE!
Jin