Not ramblings at all, IMHO. I've enjoyed reading all the various
opinions and viewpoints expressed thus far, and look forward to more.
Years ago, a friend of mine who's been playing shakuhachi for decades
(a student of Jin Nyodo's, actually), when I told him about my doubts
that playing honkyoku really is a Zen practice, said "I think you will
stop playing shakuhachi." He was right, I stopped for over three years,
but went back because I enjoyed it, and because I felt it did give me a
spiritual lift, so to speak. I'm not trying to be disingenuous, then,
by asking these questions, and of course I have my own impressions;
it's more of an old habit of always asking why, even when I know the
answer. As Zhunagzi says, use what you don't know within what you know
to discover what you don't know outside of what you know....
Peter
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