We live in a volatile and complex world, in which we secure our right to survive in this physical body by dint of our ability to be a team player - sapiens have exploited this key principle beyond the impossible capacity of all other entities, to become the dominant being on this planet to the very point of extinction through hubris.
That is in our DNA, and anyone who believes they can live in complete independence, or have arrived at whatever capacities they have through their own unique effort, are living a fantasy.
But we have an inner life. We are not completely owned, no matter what time, place or status into which we have been born. The suzerainty of the outer world does not have to extend into our inner world. That is the message delivered by Krishna and Buddha - when we say the word 'I', watch what happens inside your sentience - do you see a light inflame?
Yes, we live under the rule of necessity, of demand. Our capacity and willingness to jump immediately - without a second's delay - demonstrates our inner suzerainty. That we have the power and confidence of our own freedom, to be able to place it aside without resentment or antagonism, releasing ourselves instantaneously to the demands of those to whom we have temporarily submitted for physical survival purposes - necessity.
Necessity versus Freedom.
But inside, if we continue to perceive our soul through the emblems and symbols that others have created, we will never discover our own inner spring.
Thus, I have never understood why musicians strive to produce music in the vein of the prevailing fashion. Indeed, I've never understood how music could ever have become tethered to fashion. I can only assume it is the beast of density, the force of physicality in it's most brutish form, the entities who demand we reduce our souls into dust and disgust, who have overtaken the music industry, and money is their weapon.
Music in any musician's soul should be, by it's very essence, a call to freedom, to the flight of the eagle, to the aspiration to go beyond the earth, beyond the body, beyond the grasping of populism, beyond the imagination of others - to our own unique imagination, our own inner suzerainty.
We all have the power of unique creativity, and when we throw our life force behind that, we must not infuse and distort our soul's eye with the images and symbols of other people. This is our freedom - not another's. Create your own metaphors of beauty and power - don't live your life through the divinities of other people!
