#flute zen

[relaxationmusicc]

Boost Your PRODUCTIVITY with Focus Music for Studying

[la-hannya]

Look werewolves will always be sexy to me, love Jon Talbain for example, but will ANY be as raw and amazing as Zen-Aku (Rouki) from Power Rangers? He needs to be appreciated more.

[alphachromeyayo]

Quick and dirty shakuhachi self portrait

Still not sure what I'm doing with this drawing tablet tbh but boy howdy am I enjoying it 🎨

[dani-xis]

Shakuhachi

[spitzyyyy]

this might be the funniest thing to come out of a scrapped draft of a fake outer wilds care manual

[deepbreathmusic]

Best Beautiful Relaxing Piano for Stress Relief Meditation Music, Spa Mu...

[thebrownbuddha]

Nara Shakuhachi Pilgrimage

Title: A Memorable Shakuhachi Day Pilgrimage in Nara with Komuso-minded Friends, (blog post re-written by “AI”) Introduction: Embarking on a Shakuhachi day pilgrimage in Nara, Japan, turned out to be an unforgettable experience filled with unexpected encounters and beautiful moments. Joined by a fellow Shakuhachi player from the Netherlands and a dear friend who had transitioned from being a…

[rhianna]

Wabi Sabi is the beauty of imperfect things

The shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese flute, also embodies the ideals of wabi sabi.  It boasts a simple structure: a rough bamboo pipe, open at both ends, with five holes and a bottom end made from the root end of the bamboo stalk. Even if it seems unsophisticated, a shakuhachi is nevertheless a work of art, craftsmanship and engineering. Honkyoku (original pieces) flute music played by Japanese Zen monks is also considered wabi sabi. 

https://japanobjects.com/features/wabi-sabi

[amourrencontreseduction]

Découvrez la Sagesse Amérindienne à travers la Musique de Relaxation

La culture amérindienne est un trésor d’anciennes traditions et de sagesse qui a résisté à l’épreuve du temps. Les peuples autochtones d’Amérique du Nord ont toujours été profondément connectés à la nature et ont développé une philosophie de vie unique, qui peut inspirer et apaiser nos esprits agités. Dans cet article, nous explorerons la sagesse amérindienne à travers trois proverbes inspirants.…

[inspiration-minute]

Beautiful Bamboo Flute Zen Relax Music & Nature Tropical Forest Sounds, ...

[bomberqueen17]

stencils

ah i did the stencils on tuesday and i forgot to post about it! i have been Out Of Sorts lately and also i remembered how to post on instagram so i put it there and then forgot i had not put it here.

BEHOLD

[image description: a teal wall with yellow-orange trim, stenciled with a tiled pattern of metallic gold stars over the entire surface]

I bought this stencil and some metallic gold "stencil creme" paint, and a stencil brush, and just spent an entire day doing it.

Yeah I should've started at the top left and worked over, but I started at the middle right and worked out instead. i might go back and add points to the top border and circles to the left border. Not sure. Not urgent either way.

The directions they give you on the website mention that a dry brush is critical to stenciling success, and this is a thing I did already know; i have stenciled mostly t-shirts in my time, with dumb bullshit stencils I cut out of manila folders. But they tell you to load up the brush and then take most of the paint off the brush with paper towels, and let me tell you my stencil creme pot barely covered this wall and would not have if I'd put most of the paint onto perfectly good paper towels. So what I did instead is, I went to the grocery store and I got a cannoli, and then I washed out the container it came in, and then I cut the container at the hinges and made myself two paint trays, and one of them I used as a pallette to mix the paints for the outlet covers, and the other half I used as a roller tray to paint the windowsill, then rinsed and used for this. I had that plastic tray nice and dry and I loaded up the brush and then worked that brush around on the plastic, and it was good and dry and then when I came back I could pick up the paint I'd offloaded onto that plastic, and use almost all of it. And later in the process I added a few drops of water to that pallette, and I was able to thin the paint just a tiny bit, just enough to get it to flow a little better but not so much it went under the edges of the stencil.

[image description: a white-stained clear plastic tray with a pot of gold paint sitting in it, a stencil brush propped on the edge, faint traces and blobs of gold paint swirled around it.] when I added a few drops of water they'd collect in the fluted bits around the edges, so if I wanted them I could go swipe the brush there, and if I didn't they stayed out of the way.

I could have been more exacting and precise in my stencil placement, but I knew I had to just do it, so I just did it. Used a level, discovered that the level disagreed with the ceiling and the floor, remembered that this house like all houses is in fact handmade, and so my imperfections would just have to harmonize with the imperfections built in by the builders and the 75 years of settling and whatnot. So I was Zen about it and it worked out.

[image description: a wide shot of the kitchen showing gray cabinets and unadorned blue wall: the stencil is spotless, taped up with blue painter's tape, a stepladder beneath it with a yellow level sitting on it.]

I used painter's tape. The tutorials say you can spray the back of the stencil with spray adhesive to keep it tight against the wall and reduce bleed at the edges. I own spray adhesive, and I know it's sticky as hell and gets on everything. No thanks, I figured I didn't need it, and I don't regret that, I had no problems. I have, as it happens, stenciled a lot of things in my life.

I should make some more stupid stenciled t-shirts, they've been fun.

[image source: two repeats of the stencil have been applied to the wall, and now the plastic stencil template is taped sideways at the bottom of the wall.]

It's a well-designed stencil, and the way you lined it up is that some of the elements are designed to repeat so you just plop them over the previous version. I hadn't premeditated or measured this, but it turned out the last repeat, I could just turn it sideways and it tiled beautifully that way too. No problems. Worked great. The stencil creme paint dried fast enough that there was no problem overlaying it like this either, though I did make a point of doing the ones I was going to overlap first so they'd have the longest to dry. I doubt that mattered.

[image description: the stencil template laid over the edge of a previous repeat, showing a blue edge where the previous repeat doesn't quite align with the new placement.]

This is where me not doing math was maybe a problem. I was not perfectionist about this, I just sometimes accepted that the template had shifted slightly on the previous repeat, and while it lined up perfectly in one spot, it would not quite line up in another. I gambled that this would not matter, and in fact took this photo to check. After I removed the template this time, I went back to photograph this spot to see how the misalignment looked, and... couldn't find it. Could not tell, even though I knew where it had been. So obviously it did not matter. (In these cases, I did not touch up the edges of the misaligned bits, I left them as they'd originally been stenciled. The other elements were not far enough off the anticipated alignment for it to be noticeable. A touch-up would have been more noticeable, an element becoming oversized or slightly misshapen or having a visible edge of layered pigment in it.)

[image description: the stencil template crammed against the edge of the wall, bent and roughly taped in place, and the light switch, plate removed, poking through one of the holes at the right.]

This was the trickiest bit. I just held one hand against wherever I was working, flattening that bit of the stencil to the wall as I worked, and then I'd let go and put my hand on the next bit, and maybe they weren't perfectly in alignment with the previous bits but as long as the stencil was touching the wall well right where I was working, it was a good enough result. The light switch was a bit of a problem and i should properly have removed it but I wasn't about to do that so I didn't. I did the inward-facing points of the leftmost stars, and then did not try to do the upward-downward points or the circles, because it was too hard to get the stencil flat right there. I could go back and add them now, and I might yet, using the very edge of the template, We'll see if I do. It looks fine as it is.

[image description: a plain blue wall with a double outlet plate in it, and the points of the eight-pointed star are around it, protruding from behind the lightswitch plate.]

I had always intended to stencil an element behind the light switch plates on the plain walls, because I felt they don't stand out enough against the teal. I did one, and then realized it was impossible to center it and hard not to get paint on other bits of the walls, since the stencil template is so huge and was covered in paint from doing the whole wall. I realized then that it's just points and I could freehand those. So I did, this is me freehand faux-stenciling the star around this outlet plate, LOL.

[image description: the darkened kitchen early in the morning, under-cabinet lights on but the room dim, and in the distance the wall is shining]

anyway so the next morning i went out and was sitting at the window and turned around and was like "this looks amazing" so I am well pleased with how it turned out, really and truly.

[callico-awts]

More random TanZen sketches because my brain can't stop thinking of them hehe🎴⚡

(sorry for the pic quality.. maybe click it to make it a bit good- anyways, I'll just crop some of em for u.. enjoy hehehe)

Kamado boi ehhee very popular in school cuz of his kindness and handsome but only has his very attention on⚡hehe

T: ( zenitsu is very cute ^⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠^ )

Z: nom nom

Kind and handsome Kamado is secretly scary if you dare mess with zen (also a bit jelly when his other classmates gets too close with zen )

I 100% hc that zen can play some instruments (I think of shamisen, piano, flute and maybe violin) and he joined the music club then play any instruments inside the club room..

But I mostly hc him playing the violin hehe (But I drew him with a flute cuz I'm bad at drawing the violin hehe) and kaigaku with the piano (le gasp is that a omori reference?! nah..)

Anyways, hope u enjoy some food crumbss~ (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠)

*/goes back to slep

[alphachromeyayo]

POV: you've come round to my house for the afternoon ✨

I have no idea what I'm doing in Blender tbh, but this was fun

[charmwasjess]

You know the Jedi Temple lightsaber training halls and dueling rooms almost certainly must have had sound systems. Probably useful for announcements and instructions during lightsaber tournaments. Some Masters like to practice with music for battle meditation reasons: particular chanting, new age flutes and hand drums. Very zen.

OR. You're a sixteen year old shitboy Sifo-Dyas, you use it to pump in the filthiest club hits of the early 2010s to totally throw off your lightsaber prodigy best friend's game during sparring matches. Can you imagine how super serious, Temple-sheltered, Yoda-is-my-dad teen!Dooku's experience of radio pop and hip hop would go?? When he's trying to focus on super serious lightsaber calculus Makashi? How distracting and upsetting he would find it? How confusing? “But that booty don’t need explaining”?! But it DOES. It does.��

And I would sit down and write this one shot right now except I can't figure out how Sifo-Dyas knows every line of Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" except that I just spiritually know that he does. I read those teenage chaos sections of Dooku: Jedi Lost and I know it. There's just no conceivable way that the lyrics "first class seat on my lap, girl" hasn't come out of his mouth. Probably, let's be honest, directed at Dooku.

Oh god, and what did Anakin use that sound system for?!

[msweebyness]

MiracOlympus- The Science Deities

Here's the next round of MiracOlympus Deities, the science kiddies! Enjoy, and as always, @imsparky2002 and @artzychic27!

Marc:

(Persephone)

God of flowers and the Spring

Very close to his older sister, Mylene

Has the power to restore life

Fell in love with Nath instantly, and went to the Underworld by choice (Mylene ships them)

Soft, sweet boi

Zoe:

(Selene)

Goddess of the moon

Considerably more humble than her sister

Frequently exchanges gossip with Chloe. (She sees everything during the night, like Chloe does during daytime)

Watches over mortal children during the night to keep them from harm

Trying to figure out how to make a lunar rainbow for Cosette

Denise:

(Gaia)

Godex of the Earth

The most Zen of all the deities, great at mediating conflicts

Sees literally everything that happens on Earth, gossips with the sun/moon sisters

Is considerably grumpier during the Winter months

Helps Simon to keep his cool

Simon:

(Ouranos)

God of Space and the Cosmos

A FAR more benevolent version, obvi

Has a bit of an issue with needing routine and anxiety

Another member of the gossip squad

Fascinated by human technology

Cosette:

(Iris)

Deity of the rainbow

Everything it wears is an explosion of color

Official Olympus makeup artist

Rides between Earth and Olympus on a rainbow

Helps Alix with messenger duties

Aurore:

(Zephyrus)

Goddess of the West Wind and warm months

Can actually kick up a hell of a storm when mad

Creates warm winds with her parasol

Still a bit of a perfectionist

Has wings like a dove's

Mireille:

(Boreas)

Goddess of the North Wind and the cold

Temperature drops 20 degrees when she arrives

Only shows emotion around people they trust, like Aurore

All the snow-themed accessories

Has wings like a snowy owl's

Ismael:

(Pan)

God of mischief and the wildlands

Alix's brother in prankster supremacy

Really enjoys freaking out mortals in the woods

VERY protective of nature, like Mylene and Juleka

Is a boss on the reed flute

Also, he has the legs of a goat

Reshma:

(Nyx)

Goddess of the dark

ROCKING that cloak of stars

Mortals fear her, though she wishes this weren't the case

Besties with Ismael, helps with a lot of his pranks

Can talk to shadows

Jean:

(Thalia)

Muse of Theater, specifically comedy

Gets along well with his eight siblings, but loves their sister, Evie (Erato), and twin, Jesse (Melpomene), the most. (Don't tell the others)

The most dramatic deity you will ever meet, lives for the theater

Has a ton of superstitions that they follow to the letter

Is writing a romantic play for his boyfriend, Austin T.

Lacey:

(Nike)

Goddess of Victory

Very competitive, but her friends reign her in

Often attends mortal sporting events

Enjoys doing parkour on the peaks of Olympus

Laurel wreaths are her signature accessory

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