SAMURAI CODE QUOTES(from "GhostDog")

originaly taken from "HAGAKURE" [a part of the oral BUSHIDO]...
..readings by Forest WHITAKER in "Ghost Dog-The Way of the Samurai" directed by Jim JARMUSCH..
...Pictures taken from "The 47 Ronins" by George Soulié de Morant (BUDO éditions- budo.fr)

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Film & Animation

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• hagakure
• ghost-dog
• samurai
• bushido
• code
• 47
• ronins

[Catlicker101]

2 dislikes? Ronin.

[monQsurlaKomod]

@Catlicker101

;)

[monQsurlaKomod]

i´m fed up with all these commentaries trying to tell ´´i´m right, you´re not´´ or ´´i understand this, not you´´...!!

i´ve made this for people who didn´t know the HAGAKURE to have a piece of it and maybe want to discover the whole book. PERIOD.

[DateJPN]

Bushido was a false sense of entitlement to Samurai. They didn't live by this "code" until the Tokugawa Shogunate brought it to to light. The Samurai who lived under the Tokugawa Shogunate saw no real war. No large scale battles. The Tokugawa Shogunate put Bushido into effect because they were afraid of another revolt which crippled the Ashikaga Shogunate and the Empire.

[monQsurlaKomod]

@DateJPN i think -because i have read some referencies in this way-, that Bushido came from Zen, and Zen came from the Tao...so it could have begun the 3rd century before Christ..think what you wanna think, so do I...but never forget that none of us can be sure of something he didn't live...

[LeMetatron459]

@monQsurlaKomod Zen is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese Chan. Chan is an abbreviation of the term Chan-na from the Pali Jania which a step in Yogic Meditation.

The principles of Zen Buddhism, like buddhism itself find their routes in Hindu traditions. For more information I'd recommend the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutra.

[monQsurlaKomod]

@LeMetatron459 Sensei Dogen made the trip to China to bring back Zen -i'm all right with you and do not understand why you wrote me that...???- and by the way, real "Zen" (oups!) masters do not say Zen but Do (Tao..Dao)

-j'en ai marre d'écrire en anglais, le diktat!-

ouais, tu veux faire le malin, vas-y éclate-toi:

la Bhagavad-Gita, j'ai lu et je sais déjà ce que tu me dis alors....

[grandcollection]

... in seven deep breaths time, decision should be made....

[SeekingHonor]

I am disappointed. I thought we would have a logical discussion. But now it is apparent that you have no understanding. You are one of those who validates his lifes worth by the thoughts of others. For if you truly didnt care you would not have said you didnt care. Anyone can read just as anyone can fight. But not everyone can understand.

[americannable]

are these all of them?

[jin54363]

@DateJPN

what i'm saying is that even those people who wrote the books you read, have misunderstood that word.

bushido is the way of every japanese people looking at an enemy. as a brother with respect and understanding.

[DateJPN]

@jin54363 I've read books on it and that's what they all state. It's a philosophy "of the warrior spirit" and "is used in and out of battle". The point I'm making is that Bushido, as a philosophy, was never used by ANY wartime Samurai. Their "acceptance of death at any given moment" is complete rubbish as they never faced that situation.

[jin54363]

@DateJPN

from a video that i watched from a japanese person, it said that bushido is "Attitude of a fight that concluded only in the same value system"

i think you misunderstand the word, its quite difficult for foreigner to understand the meaning, i didn't understand it either, but with further study on this "through life experience, i started to understand it better. please watch this video, it explains better

/watch?v=c07V1wGEVKc

[DateJPN]

@jin54363 A philosophy used by "samurai" during the Tokugawa Shogunate. It stressed honor, intelligence, and self-control. I'm not sure there's any other definition of it really. It's a pretty cut and dry term.

[jin54363]

@DateJPN

please explain to me the meaning of bushdido "your meaning of it"

[DateJPN]

@jin54363 The same one as everyone else's. It's just the fact that "Bushido" was never actually used during times of war. It was created after the Tokugawa Shogunate had risen to power.