"Do you hear what I hear ?"

                                                           I promised you, my Gentle Readers, a Consideration of ---> Music .   The other day {week, month, year LIFETIME} I made note that Sufism has an Order Devoted to [the Study of]  Music and that I was instantly Exultant .   I must Confess that the Study of Music was a Some-Thing that I had long wished to include as part of "American Zen" .   The Late Great Zen Master Seung Sahn had opened Zen to America via his "Kwan Um" Zen School .  Kwan Um means "Perceive World Sound" and I was set to supplement it with "Perceive ---> Music" .   To me, "Perceive World Sound" meant Perceive World SUFFERING at the expense of  "Perceive Sound" which would include all the mellifluous harmonies of wild-life, the Industrial World, {house building, construction in general} and every day-to-day street `noise` .   It IS imperative to "Hear" the cries of the Sorrow-Stricken and Suffering, they DEMAND our "Attention", but this Reality exists on the surface of Conscious-Ness, and somehow belies the UNDERCURRENT of [literal] Music, the bee-bops and do-wah-diddies, of songs that IS not only the Undercurrent but the Back-Ground Music broadcast in almost all American Stores and Sales Locations that laden the world with Wares .   "IT" 's so common, we can't even hear "IT" and most consider "IT" "white noise" as I have just mentioned .   

                                Learning that Sufism is DEVOTED to Music THRILLED me, and it's sorta PROOF that my thinking was "on track", meaning, what I THOUGHT to be Questionable, was, in FACT,  REAL .

                                What follows are several passage that I will use as an Introduction .