Hmmm......then I'm probably even more confused now. If "The doing is about
the focus", then something is being done, isn't it?
Let's look at it via the shakuhachi. If I (the westerner) have a goal (an
end result) of blowing meri notes well, then I know that I will have to wor=
k
at it. I will certainly focus on what I am doing. And as it was stated
before, sometimes it will be good and sometimes not so good. But whether it
is 'good' or not is gauged by what it should sound like (proper pitch, etc.=
)
But in the process, I simply love blowing into a piece of bamboo. Is part o=
f
the lesson here to be less 'concerned' about what the "end result" is, and
simply experience the joy in the journey?
If that's the case, then I understand, and add that part of the value of
doing a thing is having done it well.
:o)
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Tim Cassler
Toolbox Studios, Inc.
454 Soledad, Suite 100
San Antonio, TX 78205
210.225.8269 x111
fax.225.8200
> From: Bruno Desch=EAnes <bruno@musis.ca>
> Reply-To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:13:37 -0400
> To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: [Shaku] RE: Pitch and Temp
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> Dear Tim,
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> I am not a Zen specialist, but my understanding of it is that this
> "doing by non doing" does not refer to the end result but to the focus
> itself through which the result takes place. The doing is about the
> focus and not the result. This is quite the opposite of what we
> westerners are used to. We are more inclined to look at the end result
> (sometimes an din some circumstances without much consideration of how
> we get in there).
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> Bruno
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> Le 04-04-07, =E0 15:51, Tim Cassler a =E9crit :
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>> seems to me that if one's focus is "... about maintaining the
>> discipline...", then the very act of "maintaining" implies effort.
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>> discipline requires effort. One does not acquire discipline by "not
>> doing".
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>>=20
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>> --=20
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>> Tim Cassler
>> Toolbox Studios, Inc.
>> 454 Soledad, Suite 100
>> San Antonio, TX 78205
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>> 210.225.8269 x111
>> fax.225.8200
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> Bruno Desch=EAnes
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