7/27/05

senseless – the samuri way

What defines a hero?

I was thinking about this book: the way of the samuri

there's a passage in there that says something like: death must be in your thoughts constantly

you must approach each day as if it will end in death - or something

right now everything seems completely senseless

meaningless maybe, but senseless

there's no sense in that

no sense in the samuri way

except as an evolutionary cul-de-sac for some japanese cultural niche

samuri doesn't evovle of its own accord, it evolves by external sociological forces

they thought they had it all figured out - maybe they did - for their own purposes - maybe they let in a little dao - enough to fill in the cracks and let nature take care of the rest

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