>I appreciate your humor, Peter, even if no one else does. Most of
>the discussion here is beyond me. A little levity helps!
>
>Marceil
Thanks Marceil. Actually lots of the veteran players have been
contacting me off-list to say they got a good laugh. It doesn't do
any good to get too serious about the zen connection to shakuhachi.
I think the overly serious ones are mostly beginning players who get
caught up in trying to out-zen each other. They need to be poked at
a bit. Some of us have been playing for over 30 years now and it
gets tiresome to hear all that brain twisting talk. You have to put
in many years and thousands of hours. There's no way around it.
Peter
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Ross" <peteross@cloudhandsmusic.com>
>To: <Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu>
>Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 8:58 AM
>Subject: [Shaku] Re: zen, pitch, temperature, etc.
>
>
>> >Speaking of knowing/unknowing/this or that - I'm curious if everyone on
>> >the list works out of a zen or otherwise context?
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I work out of a zen context. After I perform I say the
>> following to the audience:
>>
>> "I want to thank you all for not coming tonight. Thanks for not
>> listening to me not playing. And, for those of you that don't own
> > cars; have a pleasant drive home."
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
-- Peter Ross http://www.cloudhandsmusic.com APDO 542-4100 Grecia, Costa Rica Central America 011 (506) 494-5170 _____________________________________________List subscription information is at: http://communication.ucsd.edu/shaku/listsub.html
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