Shikan
A meditative state in which perception is utterly free of discrimination between mind and matter,
self and object;

where the only permanence is impermanence;
and change,
whether subtle or violent,
remains the essence of being.

- Sam Hamill


Mike 2 Print

Shakuhachi Flutes For Sale


The Lost KPFK Tapes of Jin Nyodo
Recorded in LA in the early 1960s

The Shakuhachi Mailing List Web Archive
Together with a few, closly related subjects

Lists of shakuhachi notation, publishers, and titles.


Movie Camera Collection



Observations on Life and Living, a collection of Zen poetry, quotations, koan, etc.

Aside from this site, shikan.org, I also host these:

The Jones Brother's Boat Corp website
Kokin Gumi, A website for my teacher, Masa Yoshizawa, who died in 2008.
Reibo, the website for Peter Hill
The San Diego Schuetzeguilde
Mary Lu Brandwein's shakuhachi website
Tink a& Zu: a website for our dogs