[MD] Creative Freedom in Jazz

[Michael R. Brown]

It's important to distinguish between a thing, our idea of that thing, and 
the presence of that thing in our thinking.

One may start out with ideas solidly saturated with SQ and very little 
admittance of DQ. This doesn't mean that one *knows* about SQ or DQ.

Phaedrus is an amazing example of personal growth. He was a Zorro of SQ, 
wielding his blade - and by that very means, he gets to DQ - and thus his SQ 
adventures were also saturated in DQ.

It's all about the consciousness in which one is in - or out.

One of the profoundest Zen sayings: "Zen is just a trick of words."


MRB