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On October 25, Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto said on Weibo that on December 11, he would give a solo piano concert to the world, saying: "I don't have enough physical strength to give a live concert, maybe the last time I will play in this format." ”
He had throat cancer in 2014 and rectal cancer last year. One book reviewer once said that Ryuichi Sakamoto was a lucky genius who essentially did not encounter any major difficulties including class, economy, career, or even marriage and love. In fact, where is the word easy in life, if you don't encounter this thing, you will encounter that calamity; Either this stage encounters setbacks, or other stages encounter misfortune. Therefore, people need to be "comforted often and healed occasionally" physically and mentally.
Remembering what he once said -
"We are part of nature, and so are our bodies."
"We must accept this natural process like Lao Tzu. It's a tough thing, and maybe I won't be able to accept it until the last moment of my life, but I hope I can do it. ”
I suddenly felt that perhaps Taoism is the common salvation of all oriental artists. In order to face the uncertainty of many serious dangers in life, the effectiveness can be sustained only by using the perspective of art, the perspective of a bystander, and the perspective of a creator to face, participate, immerse, and deviate.
For modern people, having their own detachment, transcendent mentality and thoughts, coupled with real-time healing with specific methods, should be a good state of survival and development.
Today's people are burdened with all kinds of real pain, and their hearts will be depressed due to political, economic, cultural and other reasons, and they do not know what means to use to alleviate it. In fact, any realistic means, such as covering love with money, filling old love with new love, moisturizing, lying, and rolling, have little eternity. People should learn some detachment, that is, they don't care so much about everything in the world, we need to know that emotions, emotions, money and even physical health are not under our control.
I was going to write this week about Ebictetus, the famous philosopher who famously "we went to a stage that we did not choose, and we performed a script that we did not choose." He said that there are three types of things that are not "under our control", the first is the body, "as long as there is a place to use the body or a place where the body participates, nothing is your own"; The second is property business identity and so on; The third is pain and pleasure...
Combined with the popular performance art of French dancer Juanne Bourgeis in recent short videos to explain - constantly climbing the stairs, falling, bouncing in place, falling again... Several cycles. Even if you reach your peak, you can still fall, and you may no longer be able to bounce back, but you are still struggling to bounce up. Netizens said, "It's like life, stumbling, ups and downs, just can't lie flat."
There is also a saying that has also been popular recently, which is Luo Xiang's - "I must ask you, again and again, three times inexhaustible, thousands of times, without hesitation, save yourself from fire and water in this world." ”
Su Dongpo said, "I hate this body for a long time, and when I forget the camp." The same is true. Therefore, it is so necessary to have our own independent spiritual space and natural space that can accommodate novelty. Our salvation, perhaps, exists in all forms that are higher than earthly life.
"Ars longa, vita brevis."
It means, "Art is long, and life is short." Or, "Life is fleeting, but art is long." ”
Life is an experience, how much wealth you have, how much you remember, will turn into a cloud of smoke. It is better to feel at any time and create and transcend what happens. That tension in life is not limited to those ups and downs, those Jedi encounters.
I always feel that a person must go through the darkest years on his own in order to be truly fearless, and to be so determined to obtain salvation even if he returns to the same predicament, rather than "dead to ashes". Only when a person spends the darkest moments alone without assistance can he understand what is truly "life is like a reverse journey, and I am also a pedestrian."
The tension of life is the span and presentation of all your strength, there is no trough peak, how can there be tension?
So, one morning, I listened to Ryuichi Sakamoto's music, began to read a lot of his materials, and then wrote while reading, which is a kind of narrative of my writing life.
Much of art is about healing. People are often restless, often sad, often dissatisfied, often sick, so they need to always be comforted and occasionally healed. What happens in the world is what happens, it is irreversible, and the only thing that can be changed is your own state of mind and mentality, and there is no other way.
Everyone is familiar with Ryuichi Sakamoto is The Last Emperor/Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence/Rain and other music. In fact, Ryuichi Sakamoto's music has been thinking about how to make others feel better, relaxed, simple and peaceful, but it seems to contain a lot of content, you can easily gain power, which is a very high-intensity psychological processing process for creators, how relaxed the power you can get, how complex artistic processing he needs.
In June 1997, when his father was critically ill and hospitalized, Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the first music about healing for his father so that he could listen to it for three hours on dialysis, relieving anxiety and pain. He pursues relaxation, emptiness, and simplification, and in this way, it seems that he has sorted out all the things in life. He used to study music therapy, but felt that the existing therapy, with the addition of a lot of intellectual and methodological techniques, lost its soul. He wondered if he could do something.
In 1999, he staged the opera "LIFE", the hidden theme of which is "symbiosis". The so-called symbiosis is probably to be with hope, in a better direction, in the direction of understanding the world positively.
In 2005, he started a blog about global warming, environmental protection, indigenous peoples, the new countryside, language and poetry, elephants, extreme climates, animist myths, and more. A creator must always open the door, open all kinds of doors, absorb all kinds of materials, and join his "inner factory of artistic processing".
Life is fluid, invisible, inaudible. We can't find its exact "always", unpredictable, we don't know how many life and death, how many trials, how much despair we have to go through, but we can still explore it and get close to its essence and truth.
Ryuichi Sakamoto said: "Once the memory fades and fades, it may be drowned in the torrent of history and disappear completely, but as long as it is composed into a song, it may become the common memory of the nation or generation, which is constantly passed on, and things are removed from personal experience and actually remain in the world of music, which can be used to cross the limitations of time and space and gradually share with others, and music has such power." ”
What I have been studying is that ancient and modern people, all kinds of people, in the most difficult and confused times, what should they do, how to spend the most difficult time, rely on themselves, and even be lucky to obtain lifelong immunity. A person must meditate on the search for the one in ten thousand potential opportunities in the most difficult time, and if he cannot find it, he will not be able to survive the long and arduous circle.
I recently met a tough woman who helped my mom heal her joints, a senior. Her life is really full of tension, living in seclusion in Shanghai, having a piece of land, cultivating her own, but she can immediately become a consultant and female entrepreneur who helps hard technology enterprises to do services, and many people respect her and obey her. When she was a few months of baby, her father died, and from the age of 9, she watched in court as relatives fight over a property that belonged to her, and she became the defendant instead. Later, she repeatedly encountered the departure of her loved ones. Venture alone in Shenzhen. In middle age, her husband was in a car accident, she herself had a serious illness, and spent four or five years getting through this huge new crisis. In the end, she carried it all, and now, she has acquired a variety of specific problem-solving abilities, as well as a truly optimistic and open-minded attitude.
As Ryuichi Sakamoto said: "Redemption" should not be an abstract thing, but should be treated as a concrete thing that can be done by oneself.
A person must be very sure in his heart. Determined in this life, why he insisted, he has the ability to redeem himself at any time.
Ryuichi Sakamoto loves the piano. He came into contact with the piano at the age of 3, and at the age of twelve or thirteen, he firmly decided that the piano was his lifelong wish, and it has not changed again. Ultimately, people are to be true to themselves.
According to his autobiography "Music Makes People Free", he first encountered piano at the Liberty Gakuen Kindergarten in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, and he recalls that kindergartens were all self-attended, and it was common at that time. Now children, college is still picking up. What an emotion.
His father, a native of Kyushu, was an editor, and his mother, who was born in Tokyo, was a hat designer with an avant-garde idea, so she put him in this interesting private kindergarten instead of going to a public school. One of the things he impressed the most at the time was that the kindergarten had a task, and each child had to take turns to take care of a little white rabbit, and then he had to turn this into a song. So when he was three or four years old, he began to understand it ignorantly.
He also went to elementary school far away, so he was often alone, single and free. In elementary school, his mother let him learn the piano systematically and found a teacher Tokuyama Shouko, this woman's life is also very tense, although her husband died early, she still lived optimistically.
Ryuichi Sakamoto became obsessed with Bach. His spiritual space is relatively pure, he is often immersed in his own world alone, there is no pressure, just freedom and fun. His mother's choice allowed him not to work hard for further education, because the principal of Zushikou Elementary School, Kanazawa, had an avant-garde concept, and felt that students could just study at school, and they should have fun after school.
Tokuyama-sensei later suggested that he learn composition. So I asked Minnosuke Matsumoto, a teacher in the composition department of the University of the Arts. His studies never stopped, except for one time, when he stopped studying music for three months to play basketball, he felt as if something was missing in his body. Only when he lost did he know what he cherished, but fortunately, he returned to the field that made his life feel complete.
Yes, people must be true to themselves in order to last longer. Japanese artists are very true to themselves, and Mr. Sistero Kappa has insisted on pottery for 25 years, what a lonely, long-lasting process, and a happy process without desire; Designer Shiyojima Hoko, who turned out to be a high-level executive of MUJI, only made bowls for six years after resigning, and will always only be black and white; Yohji Yamamoto, who wants to make clothes for 365 days; Flower arrangement master Ōpyō Guangquan said that compared with Chinese and Japanese flower arrangement, Japanese people are more pleasing to themselves. ......
| poster for the documentary "Ryuichi Sakamoto: The Finale"
When his first cancer was diagnosed in 2014, Sakamoto planned to stop all work, but only a year later he began to be idle again, perhaps also to please himself. He began to talk about living in symbiosis with cancer.
He began to improve his immunity through bone bone, stopped using oil-derived soap to cleanse his body, and fasted regularly to learn from animals to instinctively get along with his body. But in life, the body is most uncontrollable, no matter how good health and healing, there are many randomness in the influence of change. Sometimes in life, there must be a period of time when you are sad. It's so cold that I have to get up and continue to compose the music that life is still flowing.
His biographical translator commented: "He constantly breaks the definition of a cancer patient, constantly tries new things, and constantly pushes the boundaries of music and life. He once said that if possible, he wanted to keep his amorphous state until the end, from musician to thinker, to environmental crusader to even the patient. He seems to be a practitioner, constantly experiencing the repeated 'keep, break, leave', and finally return to the simplest and purest 'human' identity..."
The big destiny, the big environment, the big concept, the big ideal are all too big. We can only have our own confidence in the exact life event, and if the ideal state does not exist in reality, then give it a new place Arcadia, and then concentrate wholeheartedly. Have the confidence and plan, face specific things exactly, not false concepts, and respect cycles, laws, avenues and nature.
- Author: Qin Shuo Circle of Friends Founding Editor-in-Chief. Personal WeChat public account of the same name: Sister Shui (ID: shuijie00000). The video number is called: middle-aged friend Su Dongpo. Personal works: "Let the world change, the inner fish and fish Yaya", "middle-aged friend Su Dongpo" and so on.
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