The Brown Buddha

Heatwave Takuhatsu ䷟ Hexagram 32 — Heng (恒) Duration Thunder and wind, moving together, each sustaining the other. Success without blame. That which endures does so not through force, but through finding the proper, sustainable course and staying on it. **** A few weeks ago I rode out to a spot near my house, the small town of Izumisano. It is a major junction, trains running to Namba in…

Day 10: Chiang Mai Pilgrimage The Saturday Tour  **** ☵ Hexagram 29 — Kan / The Abysmal (Water)   Water flows on, finding its way through every obstacle. The superior person holds to virtue and the work at hand. Persisting through difficulty, the danger becomes the path itself.  ****   Another day, another early alarm pulling me out of what felt like a half-finished dream. The body had…

Zhan Zhuang for Honkyoku Phrases: Standing Still So the Music Can Move Honkyoku is a strange thing to call music. The classical solo pieces of the shakuhachi tradition, many rooted in the old Fuke Zen world, aren’t really compositions in the way a concert hall would understand the word. They’re more like weather. “Kyorei,” “Hifumi Hachigaeshi,” pieces like these don’t want to be performed so…