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Wéi wú wéi is Blowing Zen

Doing without doing, following without exception rules
Chapter 3 of the Tao Te Ching offers useful, though somewhat inscrutable, hints on the secret to blowing Zen.

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Nov 20, 2020 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: General Tagged With: blowing zen, play by heart, wéi wú wéi

Playing by Heart is Blowing Zen

I’m uploading a series of informal videos (with some tips) that may help one play honkyoku by heart. For me, playing by heart has brought me deeper into the sound than I ever achieved over my decades of playing by the notation. I can’t say how true that may be for others. Try these out and see.  Please  see John Singer’s Youtube playlist KINKO RYU HONKYOKU SERIES  for a more masterful performance of these honkyoku. For the notation, see Blowing Zen Honkyoku.

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Oct 10, 2020 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: General Tagged With: blowing zen, playing by heart

Find the Zen in the blowing

Ashi No Shirabe the Beach, Santa Cruz, 2008

I imagine everyone is naturally both over-rigorous and under-rigorous… just in different areas, according to their natures. It is when over or under rigor causes pain for us that it becomes problematic. The pain we feel is a symptom of the loss of balance into which we have fallen. We yearn for balance, even if we don’t know it.… Continue reading…

Oct 9, 2015 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: General Tagged With: blowing zen, Buddha's Noble Truths, loss of balance, pain, playing by heart, sink into the present, urge to 'fix it'

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