Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Vivien Leong replies to me:
>
>> Your negative words sound to me the essense of zen.  The music sounds
>> like a transcending experience!  There is an chinese idiom 'there is
>> movement in quietude.'
>
>Except, of course, when there isn't.

The many varieties of Buddhist thought, as well as mystic writings in
other cultures are one in the following:

There is no quietude without movement,
Everything is nothing but movement,
Movement is nothing.

And, it is most explicit in Sufism:
Music is everything.

Peter Harzem