Beer Bottle Suizen
No rules apply here. I blow
into the empty bottle and achieve
silence. Tilting it, I adjust my mouth’s
shape and blow across the glass lip,
receiving a flicker of tone in return.
Repeat. More of the same. Discarding
the vessel, I open another, drink deeply.
Become the emptying.
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Note: Suizen (blowing zen) is the practice of playing the shakuhachi (traditional Japanese bamboo flute) to attain self-realization.
“Beer Bottle Suizen” first appeared in Subterranean Blue in March 2020.
O at the Edges 
Enjoyable read … I get a sense of both Zen and playful … and the desire to hear bottle and shakuhachi alternating (perhaps in unison … but this feels like a solo activity, so alternating!)
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While I was waiting for my shakuhachi to arrive, I practiced achieving sound by blowing on empty bottles. 😀
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Ah, this is timely inspiration — now I know how I’ll spend a certain amount of my first day of retirement, which begins this Saturday. 😌 It was a bittersweet and financially scary decision but the body knows best. Maybe next I’ll decide which flute will lend itself best to the future… Cheers!
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I retired seven years earlier than planned. As I told my boss, I didn’t think that I would lie on my deathbed wishing that I’d created another spreadsheet. That decision was fairly easy. My body, in the form of a heart attack, told me to change. I’m so glad that I listened.
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I have often played these bottle tones …
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Emptying them is of course a great pleasure, too. 🙂
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I tend to agree Robert
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I knew you would. 🙂
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No rules, perhaps, but good order … 🙂
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Always!
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A clever introduction
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Thanks very much, Derrick.
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Lovely.
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Thank you!
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