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Wednesday 11 April 2012

Nothing to Fear...







Although the approach he takes is a bit facetious, he's not wrong in his analysis.  The Bushido code required Samurai to embrace death - this wasn't intended to foster a cult of dying, but rather to enforce  a way of living.

See, when you accept death as inevitable, you stop hiding from it.  You stop living in death's shadow and as a consequence, slowly cease to be controlled by fear.

It's surprising how clearly you see once you start to put fear behind you.  Like waking from a dream, you perceive depth and nuance; patterns emerge that aren't based on offense and defence, but on connections, like a puzzle.

It's self-interest - dominance and fear - that blind us to this broader reality.

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