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	The Piano Strings by Robert Rabbin
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In the movie a young pianist named David Helfgott wanted to perform Rachmaninoff™s "Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor." At first his mentor tried to dissuade him. He said that no one so young would be mad enough to attempt to play the piece; it was too dangerous. David said he was mad enough to try.

His teacher relented, but he told David that he would have to learn every single note as it was on the page. He would have to memorize it, he would have to play it blindfolded. And then he would have to forget them. He had to learn the notes, then forget them. That is when the music could be truly played.

David practiced and practiced. His fingers became demons of speed and agility. His practice carved new routes of responsiveness in his brain. He was told to be bold. He attacked with single-minded focus. He learned the notes and the piano shook. He grew in his madness.

One day, the piano strings broke under the boldness of his attack. The teacher said with a broad smile, œAh, now we™re getting somewhere.? Then came the day of the performance. It was stunning.

The music took over, the notes were forgotten. The fury and beauty of that playing could not be contained within the notes. David's playing had broken into freedom, where no technique, no structure, no progression, no notes, no memory can survive.

There was neither note, nor piano, nor player. There was only music, the music of creation, of the holy instant.

We, too, should practice what our teachers tell us to practice, whether they be piano or spiritual teachers. We should learn the notes and practice the scales. We should sit on the bench and keep our feet on the pedals.

We should let our brain become responsive and our heart pliable to the music of the soul. We should allow ourselves to be tutored and encouraged and admonished by our teachers and by our practice and by life itself. Let the music burn around our edges and grow hot towards the center.

One day the piano strings will break, and there will be only the music of free and spontaneous living, which was there all along. From then on, we cannot practice; we can only live. When the piano strings break, we break. Only life remains. Life practices us.

And this is only the beginning.

(C) Robert Rabbin 2004, All rights reserved.

Robert Rabbin is a San Francisco-based writer and speaker. He is the author of numerous books and articles, and the founder of Radical Sages, an online hub of global spiritual activism. For more information, please visit Radical Sages.

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