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Happy New Year Riley,
Keep up the good work for at least another 35 years.
Let me try to make myself clearer, anything that is practice (kai) is
reaching for perfection without that perfection being a goal, what is important is
the process of reaching. If the Shakuhachi is part of Zen liturgical practice
then the process of reaching for perfection in playing is what that practice
is.
The question of what is perfection or what is reaching becomes the question
to be answered. The practice is alive within you and the answers are found in
Zazen. If the instrument is not part of Zen liturgical practice then it is
an instrument to be played and mastered.
In Gassho
Kyosei
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