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Get your Zen here with a Zen Buddhist Priest known as a Komuso playing the Shakuhachi while the world drifts by in a hurried haze. The music is actually superimposed as the original music was difficult to pick out of the noise of the city.
Komuso were Zen Buddhist Priests who used to travel about playing the Shakuhachi (Japanese Flute) for meditation and alms. Komuso means "Priest of Nothingness."
I encountered this Komuso while I was in Nagoya. Komuso ceased to exist from the late 19th Century onwards.
The titles are bits of Zen sayings from samurai and Zen Masters. The subtitles tell the tale of the Komuso and their ultimate fate.
Komuso were Zen Buddhist Priests who used to travel about playing the Shakuhachi (Japanese Flute) for meditation and alms. Komuso means "Priest of Nothingness."
I encountered this Komuso while I was in Nagoya. Komuso ceased to exist from the late 19th Century onwards.
The titles are bits of Zen sayings from samurai and Zen Masters. The subtitles tell the tale of the Komuso and their ultimate fate.
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- SamuraiDave
- 8 days ago
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The subtitled story and the quotes compliment the visuals wonderfully. Nice one SamuraiDave.
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Very exotic! Nice contrast between the zen quotes in the titles and the history of the komuso in the subtitles. The surreal contrasted with the reality! Nice! Liked how the Zen Priest seemed the only constant in a hurried world buzzing by.
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- eagar_bros
- 7 days ago
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Beautiful. It was very disapointing to see that no-one sacarficed two minutes of their time to sit, listen, and absorb what this wonderful person was trying to tell them.
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- tasty_toadstool
- 5 days ago
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Hey Tasty, You're forgetting Samurai Dave, and us ;- )
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Very nice! Nice music and information. I learn alot about Zen and history! I hope he comes to Tokyo someday!
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Good grief. Who would vote against this? It's a lovely video, teaches you something of Zen in Japan and is surprisingly unsettling and beautiful at the same time. I love how people look confused that someone would create this beautiful music--while hiding under a basket--in a modern city. But it isn't as though modern cities have made us all happy people, and that kind of begs the question as to whether or not older traditions, like Zen, have some wisdom and application for the modern mind. I think they do. Well done.
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