ARTS: Shakuhachi/Blowing Zen

[Onrin]

NHK has a nice piece on shakuhachi and connections with zen. They also showed a bit of a recent "zen 2.0" conference in Kamakura. Why weren't any Treeleafers there?


Chris

[Tomás ESP]

Seems like the video has been taken down or is unavailable.

Gassho, Tomás
Sat

[Jundo]

Seems like the video has been taken down or is unavailable.

Gassho, Tomás
Sat

If you click on the line that says "watch on youtube," it is available ... at least, here in Japan for Chris and me.

Gassho, J

STLah

[Tomás ESP]

If you click on the line that says "watch on youtube," it is available ... at least, here in Japan for Chris and me.

Gassho, J

STLah

True thing, thanks

Gassho, Tomás
Sat&LaH

[Ryumon]

There has been discussion about this person in shakuhachi circles, notably this statement which is made in the description of the video:

"The shakuhachi flute emerged during Japan's Edo period (1603-1868) as a tool to train Zen meditation through breathing."

There is no proof whatsoever that the shakuhachi was used like this. That this particular player is focusing on suizen, or blowing zen, is interesting, but the historical information we have doesn't support this theory.

Gassho,

Ryūmon

sat

[Onrin]

Yes, good point. As with most things he is taking liberties in his marketing.

There has been discussion about this person in shakuhachi circles, notably this statement which is made in the description of the video:

"The shakuhachi flute emerged during Japan's Edo period (1603-1868) as a tool to train Zen meditation through breathing."

There is no proof whatsoever that the shakuhachi was used like this. That this particular player is focusing on suizen, or blowing zen, is interesting, but the historical information we have doesn't support this theory.

Gassho,

Ryūmon

sat