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Naustin
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Hi! My name is Nathan Austin. I am interested in philosophy and go. I beleive that these two pursuits have much to offer each other. I like to see analogies between go and other aspects of human experience. A relationship I have been thinking about recently is one between go and jazz. The ideas of theme and variation, and the interplay between large scale and local development seem important to both. An example of this might be to compare Takemiya's style of play on the go board to Coltrane's on the saxaphone. I also beleive that it is interesting to look at go games as expressions of the experience of life. Life is complex it seems to me in a very similar way to a game of go in that one encounters a great variety of situations in both and the way one chooses to handle any of them can have repercussions both to the future and on the results of previous encounters. It seems to me that developing a style of play in go is similar to developing an outlook on life. One cannot be too rigid about one's principles or completely undisciplined. To me this is the essence of spirituality. The quest to become a better person and better at living life. See Journal of an American Go Player This is a copy of the living page "Naustin" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |