“…I have not been able to locate where Cage might have derived the specific wordalthough it has cropped up in several texts,it has not occurred with the emphasis that might explain adoption into his vernacular-tut there is no shortage of sources when it comes to the concept. Sentiments similar to "letting things happen" and "not-being" can be found in Coomaraswamy's discussions of self-naughting, dementation, anonymity, and impersonality, 39 and more specifically, both Cage and Coomaraswamy mention a similar disposition as it pertains to musicians. Coomaraswamy quotes Rabindranath Tagore in describing Indian musicians.…”