While listening to string instruments hear their composite central sound; this omnipresence.
You are hearing an instrument- a sitar, or anything. Many notes there. Be alert and listen to the central core, the back bone of it around which all notes are flowing, the deepest current which holds all the notes together which is central.
Listening to the music, be alert, penetrate the music and find the backbone of it; the central thing which goes on flowing holding everything together.
Notes comes and go and disappears, but the central core flows on. Become aware of it.
Many hugs to all.
'Find your chief characteristic', because around that everything is hooked".- Gurdjieff