i am very interested in bushido and buddhism ilove buddhist phylosophy but i cant find anything on bushido every time i look it up i get anime porn and shit. post anything that you think might help me out

[This message has been edited by earth59x (edited 05-11-2005).]

add code to your search.

and use google with safe search on... why the fuck would you want to follow the samuri warrior code? I think all that shit is really cool, but you dont really want to do what you have to do to be a "true" Buddhist. Do some research though, good shit.

We all know that I meant samurai. Im tired.

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Go away.

Just fucking go away.

[This message has been edited by aTribeCalledSean (edited 05-11-2005).]

what? I was encouraging him.... I was just.. fuck it, nevermind

Not you bro.

The original poster.

I want him to leave and never return until he grows out of his chink-loving stage and stops jocking gook culture.

quote:Originally posted by aTribeCalledSean:

Not you bro.

The original poster.

I want him to leave and never return until he grows out of his chink-loving stage and stops jocking gook culture.

ok.... whatever bro i just want to know some more about bushido becuse it has budhist influences and i follow budhist phylosophy. as far as "gook culture" i hate it

If you're looking for Buddhist influence in the Samurai philosophy, you're headed in the wrong direction.

I think you're talking about Zen, if you're talking about anything. Since Zen is the Japanese 'version' (used loosely and metahistorically) of Buddhism, and the Samurai were Japanese, I think that's where you're headed.

PS to earth59x: All comments and inquiries on Eastern philosophy automatically fall under the direct authority and scrutiny of Tribe. Don't take it personally.

quote:Originally posted by earth59x:

"gook culture" i hate it

Exactly.

So get off an Asian religion's and culture's nuts then.

Go watch some Anime or something.

Hagakure.

There were Buddhist samurai as well as Shinto.

Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking.

It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is an even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.

quote:Originally posted by Run Screaming:

Hagakure.

There were Buddhist samurai as well as Shinto.



A great book on the subject is Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. It's published by Kodansha, so it might be hard to find.

My dad has been studying Japanese culture and religion for 30 years, and I love talking with him about it.

Japanese religion is a mix: Many Japanese (past and present) are Buddhist, Shinto, and Christian at the same time. Religion has never been a "single" affair in Japan, or in Asia as a whole, for that matter.

Samurai Bushido isn't a terribly Buddhist philosophy. Bushido was essentially a mixture of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucism. The Buddhism comes mostly in the acceptance of death a samurai was supposed to emulate.