Four Vows

Akasaka is a Zen Music Artist who improvised music with beatboxing, overtone vocal sounds, and Buddhist chanting. He became a Zen Buddhist monk after traveling eight different cities in the world as a beatboxer. During his intense practice as a Zen Buddhist monk, he also had an opportunity to practice in Zen centers in the United States, including San Francisco Zen Center, known for the place where Steve Jobs used to attend. The experience of mixed culture of Japanese traditional Zen Buddhism and American organic/sustainable community, which is from counterculture in the '60s, inspired him as a Zen Music Artist.
After leaving his practice period in the Zen monastery, he decided to create his music combining beatboxing and Buddhist chanting. He thought it was the best way to take away people's suffering and confer peace.
In 2020, one of his YouTube videos, "Heart Sutra Live Looping Remix," went viral globally and got 3.8M views.
He also challenged 108 days of live-streaming under the pandemic situation to reduce people's anxiety.
(108 is a number which Buddhists believe as the number of evil passions in Buddhism.)
"I was so healed." "It relieves anxiety."
"I got recovered from a sleep problem."
"It takes me to the state of intense meditation. "
"I dance with his music and feel so free of everything."
People call his music 'medicine' since they have been experiencing so many things like that.
International media such as AFP, SCMP, and VICE featured his unique way of teaching dharma, and more and more people have been getting benefits from his music.
Four Vows is a short sutra to vow saving sentient beings, transcending delusion, embracing dharma,
and attaining Buddha's way. He made this song with beatboxing, harmonies, and MINMIN, a modern Japanese instrument tuned in 432Hz.