Da molto tempo medito su cosa voglia dire "essere samurai" in particolare sul "forgiare lo spirito".
Mi imbattei in questo cammino anni fa, come molti caddi, ma mi rialzai, da quel giorno cerco di vivere in sintonia con la mia via, con il Budo, che ormai pervade ogni giorno della mia vita, ma cosa vuol dire veramente forgiare lo spirito? dedicare corpo e mente al bushido e alla marzialità?
Non trovo le parole per descrivere tutto questo, forse, anzi sicuramente mi ha cambiato molto, migliorato, sento che ora riesco a cogliere ogni piacere della vita, pur piccolo o sottile sia.Per me that is not a religious journey, but spiritual, to forge the spirit is much more difficult than forging the body, everything goes from the mind, but you have to cultivate it and bend it to your liking, and the best weapon is our worst enemy mind.
There are problems, or rather difficulties that accompany our lives, but without them how could we improve? how we can "overcome" the difficulties of our minds? I often find myself talking to many people, the phrase I hear about often is "I had all these problems," yet many of these people work, own house and car, probably because he thinks that happiness is the found objects, or always something more, while happiness is simple and lies in simplicity.
A Zen saying says "find happiness in a cup of tea", in today's world, man seeks happiness in the nice car, on outings, in the nice house, too clings to material things, and care only your body, leaving uncultivated mind, heals the body to adapt to the world, with fashionable clothes, or shoes straight out of the way of the samurai instead teaches me that we must first cultivate the mind and the body but then finding a balance without exaggeration on one side or the other.
Finding a balance between things, this is what I strive for myself.
Forge, the spirit
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