"Dying teaches you more about life than living." ~ Ritesh Reddy
The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, we should meditate about being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords; being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand foot cliffs, dying from disease, commiting seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai.
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Morbid, Ritz.
btw, who's your masta?
Way of the Samurai.
Hmmmm - I'd call it the case of glass half full or half empty. Why not view each day as "being born again" - a new birth, instead of "dying everyday"?
Agreed you've got to end to start again....so why not focus on starting again, instead of ending??
Just a thought.
You don't understand it, NonsSens. It's not about starting or ending something again, it's not about dying everyday. It's about "keeping death in mind" so you could avoid death... and thinking about it, to get used to it, to not fear it, to be able do right thing even with death nearby... and it's a modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke; CODE OF THE SAMURAI by Thomas Ceary
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