All 12 were selected by representatives from the Joyce Theater, but the three finalists' works were remarkably and dishearteningly similar: meditative movement studies, vehicles for technique that offered some pretty moments but nothing particularly striking, nothing that felt less — or more — than safe.
Practice meditation, or try rejoicing, meditative prayer.
In his drive to bring avant-garde music to the attention of the largest possible audience, he achieved a remarkably consistent mixture with extremely diverse ingredients, pulling in free jazz, classical, cutting-edge contemporary, ethnic, vocal and meditative strands.
As Michael Foley (ref. 146, p. 27) remarks, although "Bergson offered no practical advice on how to experience real duration – attendance to the humming of the depths sounds remarkably like the Buddhist practice of Ānāpāna-sati, respiration-mindfulness," i.e., the rhythmic breathing and self-sensing of meditative practice, which can lead to the deeper meditative state of Samadhi (ref. 135, p. 152).
Was this meditative bliss?
That sounds very meditative.
The activity felt meditative.
Walking is slow, meditative.
