Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

I don't see anything. Can you post the images directly? These just have Russian writing and no pics.

That's strange, I can't open these pics today either. Maybe the server is unstable.

fouw, thanks for posting!

Marek, I'd appreciate if you can ask Ejun if that's appropriate to ask.

Thank you Gishin.

E.

Yu-Jin wrote:

Thank you Gishin.

E.

No prob!

To answer Tairaku yes I can get hats that are quite similar but not weaved and as I said they are reserved to priests and tea masters. They are made custom each time. I can surely get some made but if you go walk around in Japan with that stuff you will surely get they eyeball treatment. Anyway I do not ever wear them I feel strange wearing a hat anyway.

Will get a pink one with green polka dots just for your school

OK so this thread reminds me of one of the great high points of Western (and specifically English) enlightenment:
The (not the best) Monty Python film "The Meaning of Life" - All I can say is - "people don't wear enough hats."
Check it out.

Yu-jin wrote:

Well, after searching the internet, I couldn't find anything I was looking for. Therefore I decided to use some skills I got from my grandma over 30 years ago.

Thanks Yu-Jin. God save all of our grandmas.

From a Ram Das (Richard Alpert) interview on Canadian radio in the 1980s:  "I was giving this lecture back in the 70's and everybody in those days wore white, and they had flowers in their hair and we sang a lot, and we were all - it was like an explorers club coming together, and sitting in the front row was this woman about 70 years old and she had - she had a bonnet on with little strawberries, plastic strawberries, and cherries and things and she had a black patent leather bag and solid, lace-up oxfords and a print dress and I kept thinking, she was so unlike everybody else in the audience. I kept thinking, "What is she doing here?"

I thought maybe she's somebody's grandmother or somebody brought her or - so I would tell these far out stories that what happened to me under psychedelics for the most part or deep meditation, and I'd look over and she'd be going like this [nods head up and down], and I thought well maybe she has a neck problem. I mean it was inconceivable to me that she could understand what I was talking about, and she kept going like this [nods head up and down] and I kept getting more far out and watching - I mean the whole evening became focussed on this woman [nods head up and down].

And at the end I couldn't stand it, the evening was over. And I just had to know and I kind of smiled her up - actually couldn't get away, and she came up and she said "Oh, thank you ... that's just the way I understand the universe to be." 

And I said, "How do you know? What have you done in your life that has put you in the space where you know these things?"

And she leaned forward, very conspiratorially she said, "I crochet."

Chris Moran wrote:

From a Ram Das (Richard Alpert) interview on Canadian radio in the 1980s:  And I said, "How do you know? What have you done in your life that has put you in the space where you know these things?"

And she leaned forward, very conspiratorially she said, "I crochet."

That reminds me of an interview with Joseph Campbell being asked, because of his "spiritual" insight, what type of discipline or meditation he practices.

He replied, "I meditate by underlining sentences."

Yu-Jin wrote:

Hi everybody,
I was looking at some pictures showing komuso Ejun Iechika playing shakuhachi or meditating
http://ejun.by.ru/Ejun_dudka/images/ejun19.jpg
http://ejun.by.ru/Ejun_med/images/ejun30.jpg
http://ejun.by.ru/Ejun_kalli/images/ejun42.jpg

At these pictures he is wearing knitted type of hat. I am wondering if this is a traditional hat used by certain schools? If yes, does it have a specific name and what schools is it used in? (I believe this type of hat was not a part of original komuso's outfit, was it?)

Thanks!
E.

"Buddhist Monk style hat,well-knitted by hand, all sizes" -- from Fujian, China

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi … 0145900504

Unfortunately I have no commercial interest in this item, but I'm sure you'll see them at the 2012 World Shakuhachi Festival in Kyoto for $100 each.