Dear Paul,
Welcome to the world of shakuhachi. It can lead you wherever you want to
go. I have found it to be a demanding, but rewarding teacher.
To me, spirituality means conscious integration between man and "spirit".
I agree that a "flow" state may not have anything to do with spirituality.
Personally, I believe that unless it leads to a higher state of awareness of
truth, the "flow" consciousness is simply then a state of awareness
somewhere between the conscious and subconscious. It's kind of like driving
down the road and realizing that the last mile or so is a complete mental
blank. The deeply concentrated mind may enter a flow state, but unless it
is focused upon spirit (i.e., expansive awareness, peace, love, bliss or
some other transcendent quality of being) its experiences and insights will,
most likely, be limited to the phenomenal world.
Still, not a bad place to be!
Cheers,
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cohen [mailto:paulcohen@ozemail.com.au]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 8:26 AM
To: shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
Subject: Spirituality in music, Qi, Flow...
Hi...new member and beginner Shakuhachi player here.
I found the various recent discussions on the spiritual aspect of
shakuhachi very interesting.
My 0.2 cents...
I think you need to define "spirituality" as it exists in the 21st
century a little more closely, given the wide range of interpretations
possible nowdays...from fuzzy new age to crisp religious fundamentalist.
For my purposes I'll use Danah Zohar's defintion of SQ (Spiritual
Intelligence) from http://www.dzohar.com/bk_sq.htm
"SQ is what we use to develop our longing and capacity for meaning,
vision and value."
This is an extension to the well known IQ and EQ (Emotional
intelligence) models of how we work as (ir)rational and social animals.
SQ, or spirituality, is what really "makes us human" (then again, maybe
it just makes us realise we really are just a temporary aggregation of
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