I dont see shakuhachi purely as a zen tool- Guess I'm
not much of a shakuhachi player then, eh? ;)
Cheers,
Isaac
--- Gene <oldmanriver@alltel.net> wrote:
> Isaac, you and Duke are never going to comprehend
> the most basic precepts of
> Zen.
>
> Old Watazumi-Do is laughing his head off at you two
> from some place -
> remember? - the guy who played concerts with
> shakuhahci made by a
> 13-year-old boy out of an old bamboo clothes pole!
> And some little girl
> whipped up a shakuhachi for him, immediately before
> a recital, and when he
> got up on stage and blew through it, sawdust flew
> out. He hadn't even tried
> prior to the concert. Yet he enthralled his
> audience with it.
>
> You got "robbed", Isaac? Robbed twice?
>
> Or were you looking for something for nothing, and
> disappainted when you
> didn't get a $300 culm for $3.95?
>
> You guys don't get it at all.
>
> Franks has a written guarantee on his web site. He
> guarantees you the
> bamboo will be crooked and split and cracked and not
> worth much for any
> purpose, and not returnable. That's why he gives
> the stuff away for
> nothing, Isaac!
>
> I bought my four culms solely for purposes of having
> a bunch of bamboo on
> which I could practice making utaguchi and nakatsuge
> and practice with some
> ji/urushi and Epoxy/filler compound and such.
>
> I'm not like you two.
>
> I wasn't looking for something for nothing.
>
> I knew it was going to be junk bamboo before I
> ordered it, because Franks
> guarantees you it will be! I went in with the right
> attitude. You two did
> not.
>
> But, when my culms arrived and I found that two of
> them were easily worth
> working into shakuhachi, and when I wanted to share
> that fun with you guys,
> you citicize me, and tell the world how Franks
> "robbed" you.
>
> What a pity you're missing so much fun.
>
> Gene
>
>
>
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