Re: [Shaku] Re: zen, pitch, temperature, etc.

From: Morris M. Keesan (keesan@alum.bu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 09:36:42 PDT

Bruno Desch=EAnes wrote:
>I think the exigencies of player shakuhachi is a Zen endeavor in itself:=20
>learning an instrument, an aesthetic, a style of music, a technique, a way=
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>of learning music which are so different from our own. We are forced to=20
>focus differently than if we are learning something from our own cultural=
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>background. And this focus must, at least partially, follow the one of=20
>the Japanese way, which is Zen, though possibly not explicitly. We must be=
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>able to get off one's own to take theirs.

I think the above probably applies about equally well to my attempts to=20
learn to play Scottish bagpipes.
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Morris M. Keesan - keesan@alum.bu.edu (Note new email address)

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