Shikantaza - Zen Mediation Music For Shakuhachi 尺八 - Adrian Freedman

SHIKANTAZA - solo shakuhachi music by Adrian Freedman - improvised piece within the spirit of Zen.

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Suizen is the Zen practice of playing the shakuhachi in a meditative flow. This practice was developed over hundreds of years by the Komusō - ‘Monks of Emptiness and Nothingness’.

The piece Shikantaza, is an improvised piece within the spirit of Suizen, performed live at the Hijiri Shakuhachi Foundation in Rotterdam, September 2019. The intention is to sit quietly with the shakuhachi and with the breath, and allow tones and melodies to arise spontaneously from a state of ‘Mushin” or ‘No-Mind’

Shikantaza translates to 'Just sitting'. It is a form of meditation in which there are no particular techniques such as counting breaths or visualisations. The 13th century Zen master Dōgen Zenji describes this practice as “Resting in a state of brightly alert attention that is free of thoughts, directed to no object, and attached to no particular content.”

Adrian plays a John Neptune Kaizan 2.9 shakuhachi.

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