Category: Shakuhachi

  • My 1st Shakuhachi Decade

    My 1st Shakuhachi Decade

    It’s been over a decade since I first held the Shakuhachi I currently play. I am making a note of it because I am looking forward to a new chapter in my relationship with it. I’ve had an on-and-off relationship with the Shakuhachi. When I am with it, as I have been for the past…

  • Love and Pain

    My grandmother finally parted with her body on Tuesday the 20th of January 2014. She suffered a lot, not just in her last years, but over the course of her life … is it alright to say too much? She was a fighter, a strong woman … and in the end that strength worked against…

  • Five Dead Ducks

    I’ve been ejoying lazy mornings. Though I can wake up early I spend the first few hours in bed – resting, reflecting, reading, writing … whatever I feel like doing. I wait for the day to make up its mind – most recent days have started cold and or windy and or wet … and…

  • Coming from inside, taking me by the hand and leading me back inside

    I came across this video of a Shakuhachi performance after sending a link to another recording to a friend. There is something about this instrument like no other … maybe because of its meditational heritage? It seems that no matter what is played on it, regardless of intensity (it has an amazing range) … if…

  • How to Get a Shakuhachi

    It’s funny that even though I haven’t been playing my Shakuhachi much lately (crowded life) I’ve been asked twice about how to get one. So the second time I though post my answer rather then email it. Disclaimer: I have owned two Shakuhachi – the first was a very basic one I got to get…

  • Asthma: When I Can’t Breathe

    When I was 3 years old, so I was told, I suddenly developed a severe case of asthma. I grew up with a variety of inhalers and other preventative medication. My asthma looked. to an untrained eye, like I was suffocating (which I was), there was a trumpet like sound when air was drawn in…

  • Shakuhachi Performance in Cluj

    Tomorrow evening our friend Sabin will be giving his 4th concert in Cluj and has again kindly invited me to partake. I’ll be offering a Shakuhachi meditation. It is a special performance because it is taking place in the same place where we first met Sabin and Ina in January. Then in the beginning of…

  • A Refreshing Shakuhachi Video: Change has Come

    I came across this video on Bas’s  Shakuhachi blog and it surprised me. I haven’t heard something simulatetaneously meditative and … well … outgoing in a while. I also loved the title – it seems everyone is looking in vein for change in the future – maybe because it is already here, right under our…

  • I Shakuhachi – December 14, 2010: Just One

    being just one just being one just being being just being one just one download recording

  • I Shakuhachi – November 30, 2010

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  • I Shakuhachi – November 28, 2010: Place on the Planet

    This is my first shakuhachi recording in Romania. I’ve recently associated some of my meditative Shakuhachi sessions with the building resonance of the Online Meditation Crew (blog, Twitter stream). I hear in it coming and going, still arriving, edgy, confident … it reflects how I feel – still coming together in a new place on…

  • I Shakuhachi – October 8, 2010

    I am not one to push … even when pushing is called for … especially not when it comes to things which have a meditative quality. It wasn’t there this morning, but something was pulling me in, demanding, unrelenting … quite a journey … I went through so much … I wanted this to be…

  • I Shakuhachi – October 12, 2010: Lost Thought

    This had a thought but I lost it download recording

  • I Shakuhachi – October 5, 2010: Definite & True

    This is not for you, it’s for me … Definite & True

  • I Shakuhachi – October 2, 2010: Demanding Peace

    Demanding peace

  • I Shakuhachi – September 29, 2010: Stranger

    Shakuhachi has recently found its way back into my being – it’s been a while since I’ve made a shakuhachi recording. This world is not meant for me … still looking for one that is. dedicated to a stranger walking the earth with my name.

  • Preparing for Practice

    Example1: Then My first meeting with Yoga was what I now think of as “play Yoga” – it was of mediocre quality – but it was good enough to hold me and eventually lead me to something better. Shortly after I met my teacher and was introduced to quality practices, I took on, in addition…

  • I Shakuhachi – May 2, 2010: Communication

    Communication.

  • I Shakuhachi – April 27, 2010

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  • Cucumbers & Shakuhachi, Doubt & Faith

    Cucumbers I recall some months ago I was preparing a salad for breakfast. I was peeling (and later seeded) a pair of cucumbers – and as I was doing that I thought to myself ‘Why am I peeling the cucumbers?’. Of course, there is a ‘logical’ answer – since we can’t afford organic vegetables we…