In Tune: Music as the Bridge to Mindfulness

"A manual for achieving calm in a tumultuous world" this meditation method uses music to become "more aware of all the ambient clutter of daily life. (The New Yorker).

In our noisy world, music is the key to inner silence.

Richard Wolf first tried Zen meditation in his teens, but no matter in what posture or for how long he sat, transcendence proved stubbornly out of reach. It was only years later that he found the bridge that could take him there: music.

In Tune charts twelve "bridges" —skill...