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Throughout
history there
are many
examples showing
a strong
relation between
religion and the
warriors chaste.
Practices
related to
religion like
prayer and
meditation had a
large importance
in the soldiers’
life, aiming at
increasing their
courage during
the battles.
It was not rare,
in the East as
much as in the
West, for a
warrior at some
point in life to
be ordained a
monk. The
existence of
real warrior
monks is already
known, the
Templars in the
West and the
Yamabushi in the
East, for
example.
In the feudal
Japan, starting
from the 13th
century, there
was a holy
alliance between
the samurai
chaste and a
particular kind
of Buddhism,
called Zen. How
it was possible
that such a
peaceful
religion as
Buddhism became
the ideological
and moral
substrate of the
warriors can be
understood only
emphasizing the
peculiar
characteristics
of this “way”
towards
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The monks tried to erase
the conceptual logical
thought to develop an
intuitive knowledge,
flowing from the heart.
Fully living every
moment without worrying
about the past and
future, set your spirit
here and now without
projects or goals, was
the necessary condition
to reach the satori
state (illumination) and
therefore become Buddha.
The search for Mushin (absence
of mind) allows the
intuition to be
developed at the maximum
level and makes it
become one with moment
of the action.
Intuition and action
flow at the same instant.
This causes the
overcoming of the dual
idea of life and death,
and therefore the total
lack of fear when facing
death.
We can understand how
this philosophy could be
successful in the
Japanese warrior class.
Being totally clear
minded when in a battle,
the lack of fear of
death, a total
correspondence between
intuition and action,
together with very high
technical skills, made
the samurai a very
intimidating warrior.
The samurai was possibly
the best warrior
prototype there has ever
been in history, as some
historians suggest.
The sharing of the same
intentions by Zen monks
and Bushi made the two
ways almost identical,
and we can state that
Zen and Budo were one.
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By:
Maestro Lorenzo Tussardi
6° dan karate Shotokan
Ryu
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