LOVE EVERYBODY, BUT NEVER SELL YOUR SWORD, OR FLUTE.
Hi Guys,
I no longer subscribe to Vimeo so many of our old videos have disappeared, if you have lost one you like to refer to let me know and I will make an update, this I mainly for Salah, but we can all benefit from going over old ground to find new items of interest, things we overlooked, or simply missed first time at the Rodeo.
As for the little Wing Chun Teddy Bear above, I own a shakuhatchi, it is as hard as steel, and legal.
In general, the modern-day shakuhachi is the Fuke Shakuhachi (普化尺八), which was developed by Zen monks during the Edo period. The flute was used for spiritual purposes by the monks of the Fuke Zen sect, a branch of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism. These monks—many of them ronin (masterless samurai)—were wandering, non-monastic, lay Buddhists. Known as komusō (虚無僧) or “monks of emptiness,” they used the shakuhachi to perform a type of musical meditation called suizen (吹禅), or “blowing Zen,” and they played the flute for begging and alms as part of their practice.
And being Ronin, if you tried to rob them things got real spicy, real quick.
LOVE EVERYBODY, BUT NEVER SELL YOUR SWORD, OR FLUTE.
Wing Chun Sydney, Australia 