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What is Ukulele Zen?

12/28/2016

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       Ukulele Zen is a way of being when playing ukulele. It's not about playing technique,it's about learning how to align our inner selves with the sounds we are making on our ukes,and how to harmonize with the one big inner song of the Universe.
         About six years ago,I was shopping for books online and a book called "Zen Guitar" by Philip T. Sudo caught my eye. I ordered it,and read part of it. It was fascinating and approached guitar from an entirely different level. While his Zen method can be applied to any instrument, the author was a guitarist and focused on presenting the musical Zen methods from that reference point.
         Over the years,I had kept my copy of the book,and I picked it up again fairly recently. Then I had discovered Philip had passed back in 2002.  My first attempt at reading it was smothered at the time by my having a job in a most emotionally toxic place of employment. I was just starting my journey into New Thought and hadn't started studying A Course In Miracles yet,so I had allowed my then supervisor's and certain co-workers bullying me throw me totally off my learning from the Zen book.
          I quit that job,gradually got myself together with the help of reading Hay House authors,and I was led back to the Zen Guitar book again.
     It dawned on me this would be a wonderful way of being when playing ukulele. So I'm offering this method of playing and being to my readers,a cyber dojo if you will. I have always been drawn to Buddhist teachings,and I'm hoping you find the writings to come to be most helpful.
    

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