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SHAKUHACHI and MEDITATION
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Some aspects prove the historical ties between the Shakuhachi and Zen-Meditation:
- The Shakuhachi is made of Bamboo, a plant with special botanical characters, which
symbolizes Zen.
- A Japanese known saying states that the simpler the instrument is the more difficult
it is to play it. It is very difficult to play the Shakuhachi. The Shakuhachi player must
concentrate carefully and control his breath, in order to produce a sound.
- The Shakuhachi studies and Student-Teacher relationships are in Zen methods and
spirit.
- The origin of the Fuke School in documented in the Zen Writings. Hisamatsu Fuyu, a
Shakuhachi player and a priest in the Fuke School, wrote three main writings describing
Shakuhachi playing as a spiritual excercise in order to be enlightened.
- The Shakuhachi's Meditation repertoire, the Honkyoku, is full of
Zen-connotations. The names of some pieces are taken from the world of Zen.
- The Honkyoku repertoire implies esthetical Zen ideas as the Ma, Kyomu and especially
the idea of the complementary duality of Yin-Yang, (In-Yo in Japanese).
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