{"id":340,"date":"2014-05-29T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=340"},"modified":"2014-05-29T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:34:09","slug":"rick-rubin-on-meditation-and-non-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2014\/05\/29\/rick-rubin-on-meditation-and-non-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Rubin on Meditation and Non-judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>One of our regular meditators, Breesa, tipped me off to an interesting connection between meditation and pop music: Rick Rubin:<\/em> Rick produces pop music of all varieties. His &#8220;clients&#8221; have included the Beastie Boys, Dixie Chicks, Metallica, LL Cool J, Eminem, Aerosmith, and Johnny Cash. So many of his productions have &#8220;gone platinum&#8221; and won awards, he is considered a &#8220;super producer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what makes it possible for Rick to hear what each of these artists has to offer, build a trusting collaboration, and bring out their best? As Rick puts it, it starts with the quiet that he finds through meditation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I\u2019ll spend time with an artist and listen very carefully &#8230; the more time you spend being quiet and looking in, your intuition grows and you trust it more. Messages come if you\u2019re looking for them. Through meditation I developed the skill to know what to ask for. It\u2019s like a knowing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More Rick Rubin quotes and information (and more information about the ability of meditation to enhance our ability to listen), can be found at<a title=\"How Super Producer Rick Rubin..., April 28, 2014 | Ruth Blatt, Forbes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ruthblatt\/2014\/04\/28\/how-super-producer-rick-rubin-gets-people-to-do-their-best-work\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> &#8220;How Super Producer Rick Rubin Gets People To Do Their Best\u00a0Work&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> (by Ruth Blatt, Forbes, 4\/28\/2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our regular meditators, Breesa, tipped me off to an interesting connection between meditation and pop music: Rick Rubin: Rick produces pop music of all varieties. His &#8220;clients&#8221; have included the Beastie Boys, Dixie Chicks, Metallica, LL Cool J, Eminem, Aerosmith, and Johnny Cash. So many of his productions have &#8220;gone platinum&#8221; and won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}