Does playing shakuhachi as a spiritual
> pursuit obviate the need to worry about such musical things?
In reading the recent threads about spirituality and shakuhachi playing (and
not wanting to be a trouble-maker (until now)) I've resisted asking the most
obvious question: What do you mean by "spiritual"? How is suizen different
from zazen? In what way are these two practices the same? Can playing
the silver flute be a spiritual practice? If not, how is playing Bach less
"spiritual" than playing honkyoku? (Is the A minor solo sonata not
spiritual?
Would it be more spiritual if played on a bamboo flute?)
Just sitting? Just blowing? Just walking down the street? Breath?
Posture?
Pitch? What's going on here?
Best,
Mark Miller
------------------------------------------------------------------
Jumping through hoops to get E-mail on the road?
You've got two choices: Join the circus, or use Molly Mail.
Molly Mail -- http://www.mollymail.com
------------------------------------------------------------------
Having trouble sending email from different locations ?
Need a single outgoing mail server that will work from anywhere ?
Set it to smtp.com and never have to change it again !
http://www.smtp.com
------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jan 06 2004 - 14:09:32 PST