Spirituality for Living

Bushido is a diverse body of philosophy, and it is strongly linked to the Japanese religion of Shintoism. Shintoism and Ma’at, the native religion of Egypt, are very similar. They are tied to the forces of nature and the land.  Holding them sacred, but also having a sense of divine order and humans connection to [...]

In Bushido, murder meant killing outside of the boundaries of the order, a dishonourable killing. The acts of the Ninja were considered murder.
To kill another in battle is ok? Yes, except for the weak or the unprepared. Thus why Ninjas were seen as so dishonourable. They held to a different creed. A sect of monks [...]

Does superstition play a part in Bushido? In a sense, any tradition is a superstition. Does any belief survive? Because that is the literal meaning of superstition.
Does any form of Bushido persist in modern Japanese society, or is it all historical? Actually yes. It doesn’t exist unmodified, but it is how the “do” disciplines got [...]

Fully half of the worlds population has GABA as their dominant neurotransmitter. GABA is a regulatory hormone, which allows nerve impressions to feel stable. The dominant blood type in America is O, so there may be some tie. A common issue with GABA imbalance is anxiety disorders and excessive sense of guilt. So maybe there [...]

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Bushido Philosophy
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 in Bushido
Bushido is a diverse body of philosophy, and it is strongly linked to the Japanese religion of [...]

Comfort is both a good thing, and perhaps one of our greatest evils also. We tend to neglect our instincts with comfort. We mistake comfort for ease, and we can be totally at ease but not comfortable. In that case, people tend to just suffer the stress to keep the ease.
Comfort has two domains: the stasis [...]

Everyone recall a time in which you were impatient.
Everyone who stands in a line getting groceries?  Especially if you went shopping while you were hungry.
Now ask yourself this, who is it that’s being impatient?
The ego in a hurry. Seems like it’s related to habit. It is all related to habit and judgment of some old [...]

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Native American Beliefs
Posted February 2009 in Native American
Native American religion isn’t actually a unified religion. In a sense, there both were and were not multiple faiths in [...]

I’m changing with time. Time. Interesting notion.
Bushido teaches something I find helpful, metaphorically at least. “I am already dead.” You have already lost the fight, so you can decide what to do with your “failure”. If everything is a failure then what is failure? I am a huge failure. I never sustained gainful employment. I [...]