In this short film, Buddhist teacher Tarchin Hearn and flutemaker Kevin Falconer take us on a journey through the art of flutemaking to discover within our own humanity the "flute-like" nature of being alive. The film is a meditation on the unlikely similarity between the making of the shakuhachi flute from bamboo and the making of a beautiful human from the events of life that breathe through each and every one of us.

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  • Ronald

    It is incredible how a blind person can be so talented. The narrator was able to describe the making of the flute—quite a metaphor. Beautiful magic

  • Patrick

    Oh my, much “resonates” here, or I might say “shakes hands” with my own heart. For it is the heart that “knows” beyond the mind. It is herein too that indigenous wisdom tells us that we are all related, mitákuye oyàsin in my own Lakota tongue. I am reminded too the many religious traditions of man that speak similarly. And finally the Sufi poet Hafiz who wrote, “I am a hole in the flute that Christ’s breath moves through…listen to this music.”

  • Diana

    Oh my goodness! What a beautiful message! I’m a dancer and greatly appreciate the connection between sound and body. It made me weep!

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  • Read Tarchin Hearn's book Making Something Beautiful for the World: A Shakuhachi Sadhana to learn more about the art of flutemaking and meditation. 
  • Learn more about Kevin Falconer's thought process in making art, especially pottery in his early years, though now that he is blind, his expertise is flutemaking.
  • Beginning with a posture of openness and attention, breathe down through the spine as if you were a flute being blown through. Feel the opening of your five senses like the holes in a flute. What music can be played for the world?

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