Reseña

The shakuhachi is a complex instrument to master; imprecise, rustic and full of magic sound. It demands perfection from the artist who plays it, it demands everything from him to show his true inner song, from his breath and through a simple piece of bamboo.

This book illustrates, guides and gives solid bases for those who wish to discover and control their own tone and breath, not only in the use of the instrument as a musical tool, but also to face their own character in the search for perfection and self-discovery through practice.

The shakuhachi was employed as a meditative tool by the extinct Komuso Buddhist monks of feudal Japan, it is an intimate vehicle linked to personality development and self-discovery, which can help strengthen patience and the conquest of personal mastery.

The masters of the Fuke-shu Buddhist sect, shakuhachi practitioners, understood that Zen could be practiced not only from a cushion (zazen), but from many activities of our life. Zen is not static, Zen is dynamic. Zen is silence and sound through the bamboo.

Ricardo Zapata is a martial artist certified by two important Japanese organizations as Shidoshi (Master of the Way), with more than 35 years of experience as a martial artist. Musician, performer and composer of music for shakuhachi, singer and multi-instrumentalist, designer and specialist in educational management.
Zapata has dedicated three important lines of research, contributing from design and luthiery, changing the state of the art of the shakuhachi with a cutting-edge model of precision inlaid mouthpieces, from music with compositions for the instrument, and from education with his gateless study system: Mumon Ryu.