Thursday, December 8, 2016

Samang Kirok

Dreams are truthful manifestations. When I occasionally have dreams of dying in battle or committing  seppuku, if I brace myself with courage, my frame of mind within the dream gradually changes. This concerns the dream I had on the night of the twenty-seventh day of the fifth month.

The Matheson Trust; Yamamoto, Tsunetomo, Hagakure: In the Shade of the Leaves, Section 113 (p. 31) http://themathesontrust.org/library/hagakure-book-of-the-samurai
I used to dream about being killed quite frequently; it was always the irrational rage of a close family member brought on when I confronted the person's delusion.  How would "bracing myself" in such dreams have changed my "frame of mind"?

Medea
Da Pompei, Casa dei Dioscuri https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medea_-_Casa_dei_Dioscuri.JPG

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