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Indeed, while an awesome one, it's just a forum. Amen.

This might serve as a helpful visual aid for understanding pointers, such as solipsism, koans, emotional scales, and so on. If done right, the pointer eliminates itself. It's thought. And actuality is beautiful.

As I can only do one task at a time, it's never overwhelment because of the work I gotta do. Overwhelment is more often than not thought based. When I recognize that it's the thinking, which makes me feel overwhelmed, it's all easy again. 😊 Segment intending by Abraham Hicks is a great tool as well.

@ivankiss Hell yeah! Meet me at the skatepark. That does much more for 'my spirituality' than pondering concepts about the universe. Spiritual teachings are great for story time, though. And I also love having a conference call from time to time. 🍄

Great things have already been said, so I'll just link some amazing resources for you (if it's a bit overwhelming, don't worry, all the links are more for reference purposes). You'll realize that none of those use the same DAW - and the sooner you learn, that you can watch an Ableton tutorial and apply that to Logic, the better. Simple all-rounders (great for the beginning): https://www.youtube.com/c/andrewhuang https://www.youtube.com/c/ReidStefanMusic Songwriting/Music theory: https://www.youtube.com/c/Holistic-songwriting/featured https://www.youtube.com/c/SignalsMusicStudio https://www.youtube.com/c/RickBeato Sound design: https://www.youtube.com/c/SynthHackerTV https://www.youtube.com/c/SeamlessR More mixing heavy channels: https://www.youtube.com/c/inthemix https://www.youtube.com/c/MixBetterNowTV https://www.youtube.com/user/MixWithTheMASTERS Instagram goodies: https://www.instagram.com/cosmicacademy/?hl=de https://www.instagram.com/productionmusiclive/?hl=de https://www.instagram.com/masteringthemix/ And a great podcast about everything around music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClqDJBPSl6iMn7OPfNqzmEA/videos The above resources cover just about everything. But honestly, the best way is just going for what you try to create.. if you get stuck, search with the right keywords for a YT tutorial, apply and repeat from step one.

Totally feel ya. For me personally, the privilege I'm living is my responsibility to give back to those in need for help. I actually thought about flying to a poor country, with no to little equipment, and live with the folks there for a few weeks, just to get a perspective. Great topic @Indisguise!

This right here is the most essential part of the 'amateur phase'. Just have your fun playing the piano. It eventually extends to producing music, which eventually leads to wanting to bring it out there, which then leads to the business part of it all. And also, be willing to try stuff out. That's so essential to every aspect of music - and for the piano too! You either figure it out yourself or you find yourself a sound engineer who understands you and who can do that for you. Whaaat? For real? For me, it's pretty much the opposite. 1 hour of sound design is a pretty amazing activity to me. Sometimes I ain't feeling it either. I tend to move on, when a certain sound isn't resonating with me.. literally. Lmao. That's just not true. Lol. You're kinda not appreciating how EASY it is nowadays to produce music. It's cheaper and easier to learn than ever before! Loads of free plugins, so many great free YT tutorials, so many free samples, and even free DAWs!

Masculine and feminine are polarities with varying degrees within each human being. You could have: masculine men, feminine men, masculine women, feminine women - and "everything in between".

“If I could only figure out how to do all this without my body.” – Alan Watts’ last words before he died in 1973 Same! Health & spreading the love - that's my life's "mission". I could imagine going "yogi-level" when I get a bit older. But for now, as I'm still in my twenties, I wanna make the most joyful experience out of it (btw, not saying that going "full yogi" is not a joyful experience). For now.. meditation, love & living the dream life. Fuck yeah. 😎 Feels so good.

I appreciate that I will be doing this the whole summer. https://youtube.com/shorts/lcWA2wEFkeY?feature=share

@Blessed2 🙏🏼😊

I might add to the above quote, that I once had a dream-sadhana with Sadhguru! Lmao. The trance was deep.

"If you're willing, I will be available to you in more ways than you can logically understand. Because, a guru is not a person." - Sadhguru

First things first, go to a quality doc and check whether he finds anything unusual. Leave no room for assumptions, when it comes to health. Especially in the heart area. 🙏

Thanks, you have a great day too! Sending that good ass love. 📧

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha is a pretty fat book, I'm sure you can use that to slap the shit out of him. Jk. Don't do that. If it's my best friend, he sure has his reasons. Most of the time, when he ignores me, he's in a bad mood, and you can feel that when he's replying or when we meet up. As he's in a bad mood when he ignores me, I don't hold any grudges against him. Hell, sometimes I'm the same. Highly dependent on the project. If it's not really relevant to me, I couldn't care less. If it's important to me, I'd gather a group of people who I resonate with and where I know that working together will work. If it's important to me, but I don't have the right group, I'd either look for ways to make it work anyway OR not do the project at all. If I'm forced to do the project (such as, from an institution), then it's probably not that relevant to me anyway. Nothing, really. I listen. If it's funny, I'd probably laugh (even if he's an "asshole"). If I don't find it funny, I don't laugh. That's it. If he tries to make fun of you, in order to belittle you, isn't that evidence enough that he's actually a bit misguided? If someone needs to belittle me, in order to feel good, I feel kinda bad for that person. I couldn't be mad.. you know what I'm trying to get at?

My rule of thumb: if we vibe, we vibe. Makes life pretty simple. Honest and sincere reflection through the expression of thoughts and emotions can be very clarifying. In order to do this, you could ask yourself these questions: What's the content of the critique? How do you think about it? How do you feel about it? Why do you think/feel that way?

@fopylo Are you willing to go through the 'amateur phase' and face all the upcoming challenges, from music theory to business to mixing to marketing and more? This is the same question as, do you enjoy facing all those challenges? For me, the challenges were not a hurdle, but gasoline to the fire. This is not to say that it was easy - some things were really tricky to figure out, and still are. But it was always simple, because.. I just did what I love.

As someone making music, this honestly confuses me. I can't stop doing it. There's not even a question of "Hmm should I do it or not. I should do it more often." Huh? It's a nobrainer, if you want to make music, grab that f'in instrument and search for beautiful tunes. Been following that strategy for 12 years, I promise, it works.

Com- word-forming element usually meaning "with, together," from Latin com. -passion (n.) c. 1200, "the sufferings of Christ on the Cross, from Late Latin passionem (nominative passio) "suffering, enduring," Suffering together - feeling for 'someone else'. This actually erases the else-ness and highlights the togetherness.

I never asked him directly, besides telling him that he ever needs anything, a talk, a coffee, a helping hand, he can let me know. Perhaps, directly asking the questions you wrote might be more concrete and 'practical', so to speak. That's actually pretty helpful, thank you. 🙏

Thanks, happy to be here. Yeah, when someone passes away, there's just nothing to do about it. It gives me peace that they turn back into an ocean of love, but it still sucks, especially when it's recent. From a different perspective, it's kinda beautiful to see how we come and go, and share limited time together. It really makes me appreciate the time I'm with my grandma or friends. 🥰 Giving advice really depends on the situation. Sometimes, just making music together is the most pleasant thing to do. And I agree, a piece of advice at the right time can give a fresh outlook, and we can uplift one another. Sometimes the inspiration to do it just hits, acting on it doesn't seem so bad.

Hello folks, I appreciate the opportunity to be with you here. My question is aimed at supporting people, dealing with the death of a loved one. My band member's dad died about 4 months ago. As it is still a very fresh wound, the topic comes up frequently. I want to support him as good as I can, and have a hard time doing so. So, when the topic comes up, I listen and give space to him with all of my heart. I find this to be most essential. But when it comes to responding, I somewhat freeze. I don't know what to say or how to respond. Technically, I could give advice on how to deal with death in general, buuut.. this doesn't seem fitting in the context of listening to my friend. The last thing I'd want to hear, when a loved one dies, is "what to do about it". Sure, sooner or later this has to be dealt with. But, especially when the wound is still fresh, I think people need time to heal and not some piece of advice. I try my best to let them feel the love, but honestly, I have a real hard time doing that. Oftentimes, I say, "I don't know what to say", because that's the most honest statement I can give. I have all this love and compassion in my heart, but I don't know how to express it. There certainly is the fear of 'saying the wrong things'. But I think in this case, it's somewhat justified. Not in the sense of holding the fear within, but in the sense of wishing the best for my people. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks. 🙏

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. 💡 Perhaps the word order in the previous quote confused me.