A r t a s s p i r i t u a l p r a c t i c e
Meredith Monk
Photo: Erin Koch
I first met Chögyam Trungpa in New York in 1974, during one of the early talks he did there. I have to say the meeting was kind of funny because we just shook hands – there was nothing in my mind, a blank. Later on I spent quite a bit of time at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. When I told Ane Migme, one of the nuns, that during this meeting there was nothing in my mind, she said “Oh that was a very good meeting: he was showing you the gap, that was very auspicious”.
His assistants had given a long introduction telling him about my work: that it was music as meditation, Buddhist theatre etc. but in the exact moment that we looked at each other, all my “achievements” seemed unimportant. My thinking just came to a standstill; I knew there was nothing that I could say exactly. Again, this was very instinctive, because I hadn’t really studied at that time, I hadn’t formally practiced at all, but I had the sensation that my conceptual chatter was inconsequential, and I literally was speechless…
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