Shakuhachi Recordings

[MikeyMurder]

Hey guys. I've been practicing meditation lately to increase my awareness and ultimately help with my lucid dreaming. The jazz teacher at my school practices Zen Buddhism, and he has a really neat instrument called a Shakuhachi that he played for us one time while we meditated. It's basically a Japanese bamboo flute and the sound is so relaxing and helps with meditation a lot. I was wondering if anyone knew of any shakuhachi mp3s or just relaxing Asian music or whatever that would be nice to meditate to. Thanks.

[salad funk noir]

http://www.amazon.com/Shakuhachi-Meditatio...n/dp/B0000037AE There are thirteen tracks over two CDs. I haven't heard the whole thing but the samples on amazon.com sound really nice, I'm actually thinking of ordering a copy.

[waving on oceans]

Hey, WEIRD haha. I'd never heard of the Shakuhachi in my life. This summer I went on a camping trip where I met an awesome hippie kinda guy out in the woods living in a little community....in the middle of no where. Every night...music musci music...and this guy has been making shakuhachi flutes and playing for 22 years. Anyway, I got a shakuhachi and they are super hard to play, but beautiful. I've been been playing since august...and using it for meditation...but thats even hard haha. Im still learnin. I met another guy on here whos in a two guy band whos band member plays in and they mix it into their songs. I'll let him know you are asking bout it. Go check out the ipod store, oddly they have several shakuhachi CDs- simply to get the info if you dont want to buy. ALSO- check out Ron Saya on cdbaby.com. Hes the guy i met in the forest and he has a CD- you can get 30 sec clips of his music there, hes got his own style. Good luck, let me know what you find!! -J

[Riff]

L I M E W I R E It.

[DrTechnical]

I think meditation is great for increased awareness. I use it as a tool to facilitate my lucid dreaming as well. My suggestion would be the brainsuites meditation CD's. They are very relaxing in and of themselves, but also have bi-neural frequency shifts embedded in the R and L channels. This encourages the brain to entrain to the frequency shifts in question. Delta and Theta waves are your best bet. You will get into a very relaxed state where the goal should be to drift off and lose concious awareness of your body. This deep meditative state allows you to explore a state of conciousness that is not dependent on your minds relation to your physical self. This ties neatly into the primary Tibetan dream yoga reflection of considering your dream space and wakeful reality equivalent - in the sense that neither are substantial and both are projections of your conscious awareness. Enjoy

[bro]

How do these recordings work? Is it only if you beleive they can work? thanks