Tim Lerch: how to find your true essence - Disrupt Everything #162
"Make music responsible for the experience" - Tim Lerch. Interviewing world-renowned Jazz and Blues guitarist, educator, zen teacher and Emmy award-winning composer Tim Lerch about Zen teachings, calming the mind, finding your true essence and the intersection between music, wisdom, love and self-mastery. It's a conversation about the intersection between blues, jazz, Zen practice and mastering life as an honest, human and self-disciplined apprentice. "Meditation means experiencing the moment by itself" "My life fell apart when I was 30, and I had the chance to sit in a retreat; at the end of the retreat, I had nothing to return to" - Tim Lerch. Index of contents Life-changing experiences. First encounter with music - as a professional. Monastical life. What blues and jazz mean to Tim Lerch. Learning working in Tone, taste and telecasters applied to real life. Pearl Django, milestones that have shaped him as a person and as a musician. When and how Zen stands in the Way. What's the before and after Zen on Tim's life. The intersection between his life as a musician and his life as a Zen teacher. The biggest learning he had through Zen teachings. What educating people online has taught him about mastering a skill as playing the guitar. How staying productive combines personal, professional and educational-meditator sides. Mentors have had a big impact on Tim's career. The one finding that has most surprised him recently. His most effective tools for personal development. The essentials tips for creating a life that thrives. Rapid fire-questions. Final message. > And the question for the listeners: What are you? "Blues is an idiomatic language that expresses something true of human nature" * Find here the summary in Spanish. Podcast show-notes and resources: Tim Lerch website. Tim's youtube channel. Facebook account. Instagram account. "If you are always ready, you don't have to be ready" - Tim Lerch.