The Art of Emptiness

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August 3, 2022 a project of ServiceSpace O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion! - Gary Snyder - The Art of Emptiness "The composition below is called Woodmaster and it is written for solo Taimu shakuhachi and dedicated to Ken Mujitsu LaCosse, designer and maker of Taimu. Taimu is a wide-bore, natural bamboo variant of shakuhachi, the root-end bamboo flute from ancient Zen Buddhism. This flute itself calls into question rigid lines or divisions between masculine and feminine, sacred and secular: it comes from Zen, but it also comes from the dirt (the root-end was indeed roots in the ground, part of its rhizomial roots network underground); we play meditation pieces on it but I play gutbucket blues riffs on it too. It is smooth yet coarse in its textural possibilities (...)We dissolve dichotomies with this instrument, yet the sacred masculine has certainly fueled the making and playing of this flute and this song specifically." { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, check out this passage by Rob Burbea, "Pay Attention to a Sense of Space." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Seven Lessons Learned from Leaves Amanda Gorman: The Miracle of Morning What We Get Wrong About Time Peace Is Every Step: Thich Nhat Hanh's 95 Year Earthwalk 2021: Resources for the Journey Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention The Really Terrible Orchestra Matthew Fox: How Important is Truth? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 163,086 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More