Vertical time: where mindfulness and music meet

The practice and proven benefits of ‘mindfulness’ have inspired Rolf Hind to create a new opera, Lost in Thought – perhaps the first ever to be as much a performance as a group meditationLost in Thought takes its title from a quote by Thai monk, Ajahn Chah who, when asked to sum up the state of the western world, used those three words. There’s nothing wrong with thinking, of course, but he was referring to the patterns of preoccupation, lack of focus and distraction that