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Whereas the Buddhist tradition frowned on music and dancing, most in the Sufi tradition delighted in the first and those in the Dervish one delighted especially in the second. Where Buddha banned music as a hindrance to aspirants, Pythagoras and the Neoplatonic masters praised it as a help.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 3 : Art Experience and Mysticism > # 47