Clean the body of rust! The Japanese philosophy of life! If you do not "train" yourself in difficult situations and surrender, you will be unhappy as a result! Live your life as if you are already dead!
Clean the body of rust! Japanese philosophy will make you look at life from a completely different angle!
Anthropologist Ruth Benedict in his works described Japanese self-discipline that can help you overcome difficult life moments from taking college exams to more mature situations that cause people to fall into depression.
1. A child is happy when he is born, but he has not yet "tasted life". Only through spiritual development and their own experiences, men and women get the opportunity to live "with full lungs" and feel the true "taste of life". This is the only way to love life.
2. The Japanese skill of self-control has a clear explanation: It improves a person's control over his own life. Everyone in a certain domain of life smiles in relation to the situation and wins it. For everything that life has prepared for you, you need to go through some training. If you decide to give up and not "train", you will not have good results and you will feel unhappy. "Cleanse the body of rust," said this anthropologist. The man turns into what he would like to become.
3. According to Western philosophy, by practicing "MUGA" and practicing "live as if you are already dead", the Japanese eliminate conscience. What they call the "observing self" or "looking into oneself" serves as a sensor that judges a person's actions.
The difference between Eastern and Western philosophy is clearly manifested in the fact that "unscrupulous" Americans are considered people who have completely lost their sense of sin, which should be accompanied by inappropriate behavior. On the other hand, when the same term is used for the Japanese, it refers to a person who ceases to be tense and limited.
The Japanese view a person as an individual who can withstand even the most difficult tasks and cope with all of life's adversities and difficulties. The main motivator for "good deeds" among Americans is guilt. A person who stops feeling it due to a hardened conscience becomes antisocial. Again, the Japanese present this problem differently. According to their philosophy, a person is essentially soft-hearted and kind. Such a person acts directly just as he is, light and without any ultimate goal initiates actions.
4. The most extreme form in Japanese philosophy is a very approving attitude towards “a person who lives as if he has already died”!
Literally, when this is translated, it would sound like a “living corpse,” and in all Western languages, this term has a negative connotation.
However, when the Japanese say "Live as if you are already dead", they mean that a person lives on the basis of his skills or experiences. They use this in everyday communication. For example. when a child is disappointed by the exam he failed, to cheer him up in Japan they would tell him "Treat him as if he had already died and it will easily fall to him that he just failed the exam". In another case, e.g. to encourage a friend who needs to close an important deal, treat her as if she has already died. This easy approach relieves the Japanese of unnecessary stress in life and makes life "easy".
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