God Is a Jazz Musician, Not a Classical One

When I consider your analogy about the screen and the movie that appears on it, it feels contradictory – the screen doesn’t mind about the movie content, but what in me makes decisions about being aware or focusing attention? From the mind’s perspective there might be free will, but from being there’s no need or will. It feels like everything is already written. Rupert says: ‘It’s your mind that makes the decisions. It’s not already written. God is a jazz musician, not a classical musician. All there is to the mind is awareness. So attention is a focusing of awareness. And meditation or prayer is a defocusing of awareness, a letting go. Eventually, it’s our decision to let go as a mind, as a separate self, and then we go back to I am. But this decision is practically a process in the mind.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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