虚無僧は、生業（なりわい）を捨て、家を捨て、名を捨てて、天蓋をかぶり、顔を捨て、言葉を捨てて、作者不詳の本曲を吹き、総てを捨て去った果ての解脱の様相を立ち表す尺八の音そのものとなる。
Abandoning his job, home, and name, the Komuso puts on a canopy, abandons his face, abandons his words, and plays the pieces of honkyoku by unknown composers, becoming the very sound of the shakuhachi that expresses the state of liberation at the end of abandoning everything.
＊Honkyoku is the shakuhachi solo pieces played by komuso priest.
