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“ Although this may be a most difficult thing, if one will do it, it can be done. There is nothing that one should suppose cannot be done. ”

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In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.

~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Tsunetomo Yamamoto Kodex Philosophy Samurai

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

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Tsunetomo Yamamoto Bushido Courage Death Honor Japanese Sacrifice Samurai

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon 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 of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

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Tsunetomo Yamamoto Death Mastery Meditation

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

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