Interesting comments. I get home from a nice Sunday/Monday weekend
in Palm Springs to find that some folks wish to take the non-spiritual
(my reading of the distinction) stuff off the main list. Not thinking
much about it, I just go ahead and setup a list on one of my servers.
Then I get a message that shows that someone else has setup a list
on yahoo (which is "free" - but you get to pay in other ways) for
the same discusison.
Then someone else mentions (off list) that he is sorry to see the
discussion splinter off into different lists. Then a third party
asks if there's a list for discussions of the "spiritual" nature
of the shakuhachi. And another party thanks the split group for
removing that part of the discussion from the list.
None of this is particularly new, I've seen it on many lists over
the years. Even participated in it myself (see above).
On retrospect however, I think it is a mistake to remove the
technical stuff from the main list. As another (off list) respondent
noted, doing so makes it more difficult for folks to find
information about the shakuhachi.
I would like the folks who are participating in the new list to
consider bringing their discussion back onto the main list. I know
that not all of us are particularly taken with questions about the
physics of the shakuhachi, but the amount of mail generated by
discusisons of science (not the commentary thereon) is small and
should not be much of a burden. Splitting off the discussion that
way also plays into the notion that there is some rational split
between the material and spiritual worlds - not a particularly Zen
approach.
I'm removing the list I setup because it seems redundant. I hope
the other list becomes redundant as well.
bj
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