Decorating your 21st century interior in a Japanese manner has become very popular. The Japanese artifacts, like the samurai swords, are proof of great taste not only because of their eye catching colors and shapes but because they hold a lot of meaning. They represent moral values like patience, discipline, honor, loyalty and determination. The modern world has forgot some very important codes, but their symbols still exist as a reminder in the Japanese works of art that distinguish some homes or offices.
The samurai swords, for example, are very used objects of decoration. People who appreciate martial arts or the Japanese life style often hang them on walls. Owning samurai swords means you appreciate Japanese history and the virtues that this object stood for in an antique society. For those of you with the good idea of buying samurai swords here are some hints about these beautiful and meaningful objects and their philosophy. Knowing how they are made and their value will make them more treasured decorating objects.
The value of the samurai swords comes not only from their handcrafting, but also from the fact that they are a symbol of the worrier. The samurai swords define power, duty, responsibility, self-defense and ethics. The samurai swords were weapons used by a class of people who cherished their freedom above all and defended it with great skill. The samurai swords were used in hand to hand combat which was a very demanding perhaps the most, form of combat. Having to fight with a sharp weapon required skill of body and mind, abilities, reflexes and technique. Only through a lot of practice, exercise and patience one could become able to handle the samurai swords in order to protect the code of honor.
The Samurai (knights-retainers) were also called Bushi (warriors) and their most treasured weapons were the samurai swords. They considered the swords a part of themselves and sometimes believed the swords were the soul of their worriership. They gave their samurai swords names and awarded them medals. Some samurai worriers even died trying to retrieve their treasured samurai swords for their Shogun (the most powerful samurai worrier for a period). Bushido means Way of the Warrior and the heart of the Bushido philosophy, which lead their beliefs and conduct, is freedom from fear. This meant they had no fear of dying. They were able to use their peace of mind to give themselves power to serve their master faithfully to the death. Therefore, duty and loyalty were a great part of their philosophy. Their way of life ranked them at the top of the social hierarchy in Japan for hundreds of years until 19th century.
Artisans of ancient time put a lot of thought in the creation of samurai swords. They had to create weapons that were not too heavy to handle, nor too rigid to brake off. They discovered sharp samurai swords, used against an armor, broke and that samurai swords made of soft steel were flexible and light. So, they considered the most appropriate weight for samurai swords would have been around 2-3 pounds. However, to create such samurai swords would have meant a lot work.
There were many methods used to handcraft samurai swords. Some used the repeated and tiring process of heating and folding of steel. The blades had to be polished afterwards carefully and the smiths engraved their signature on their work of art. The samurai swords were proof of great handcrafting skills, which meant that the person who created them possessed some unique virtues. Like for any art object, to create samurai swords meant to put soul in your creation, to invest patience and will together with intelligence to obtain the best results possible. A lot of artists worked on their detailed ornaments of the hilt, on their handle bindings and sheaths and the results were samurai swords worth being worn by worriers.
These virtues have been forgotten as the modern society no longer cares, respects or praises the military man as much as in the past. The samurai were (and still are) highly appreciated figures of history. The samurai swords were priceless and were identified with the worrier class. Made from the heat and pounding of skilled smiths, the samurai swords brought honor and the spirit of the true worrier to those who carried them. Because of this, many modern people buy samurai swords as a reminder of that time and those values. Samurai swords decorate today's homes, as symbols, for those who know what true beauty means virtue and honor.
For different people, the value of life holds different weights. Success is defined differently depending on one’s perspective. Today, many life-changing philosophies express the value of achievement and fulfillment within the confines of finding a tangible passion. In the pursuit of happiness, people turn to life coaches and inspirational giants to help them achieve the success that they desire.
One of these giants is Tony Robbins. Already regarded as a successful life coach and motivational speaker, Robbins possesses a positive outlook that he willingly shares. Thinking the Robbin’s Way has become a philosophy that is applied to reach one’s life potential, financial freedom, and purpose driven living. His status and charm suggests that finding a dynamic journey towards a life of success is possible.
The Robbins’ Philosophy can be summarized in this quote: The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way. These words of wisdom suggest two things which are improvement come from the science of achievement and achievement breeds an intricate art of life fulfillment. Knowing that there is room for improvement and focusing all our energies to reach our potential transcends the boundaries and limitations set even by the institutional structures today. As one can say, success knows no race, gender, religion, or financial status.
Tony Robbins also believes in transforming your dreams into reality. By following certain rules to become a result-oriented person, following a direction towards a vision will help make you the success that you believe you are. Tony Robbins helps build the foundation to drive a different outlook to life. Whatever your goals are, his philosophy will always help you find the momentum to achieve it.
Tony Robbins’ intricate thoughts contain a plethora of different ideas. First, he maintains the importance of the physical body in connection with one’s emotional state. Controlling the physical state will prevent you from making emotional decisions that can go wrong most of the time. Another important note is his view on the importance of reflection. Having regular reflection will allow you to ask questions about yourself as a feedback to your actions. Thus, the quality of your life is proportional to the quality of questions you ask yourself.
Reflection and meditation is perhaps the one important thing that people overlook. Meditation and self-talk puts us in a position where we rate ourselves and give ourselves our own life-score. Knowing our life-score will let us know where we are and how to get where we want to be. Tony Robbins emphasizes that understanding ones self will keep us in constant check with our sense of achievement and fulfillment.
Tony Robbins also borrows the psychological concepts of pain and pleasure and how rewards and hurting can help mold our outlook in life. Tony Robbins also values creativity during the time of routine and as a tool to escape being stuck. Doing the unexpected is a way to break out our shell and move forward. Finding the ability to visualize your goals and tasks ahead will help you achieve a sense of fulfillment for every step of success that allows you to move forward. For Tony Robbins, visualizing achievements gives you something to feel good about.
The philosophy of Tony Robbins is definitely a part of an inspiring message that one can master. Whether you are achieving financial success or reaching your life potential, structuring our lives under the philosophies of inspirational giants and life coaches such as Tony Robbins will help you set a clearer path toward your ultimate goals.
You go to church every Sunday and you say your prayers every day. Does this mean you are a spiritual person?
No.
You practice yoga and meditate every day. Does this mean you are a spiritual person?
No.
You belong to spiritual group and are devoted to following the teachings of the group. Does this mean you are a spiritual person?
No.
What, then, does it mean to be a spiritual person?
Being a spiritual person is synonymous with being a person whose highest priority is to be loving to oneself and others. A spiritual person cares about people, animals, and the planet. A spiritual person knows that we are all one, and consciously attempts to honor this oneness. A spiritual person is a kind person.
So, you can go to church every Sunday and say your prayers every day, without caring about loving yourself, others and the planet. You can practice yoga and meditate every day without being conscious of what is loving and what is not loving in your thoughts and actions. You can belong to a spiritual group and devotedly follow the teachings, yet still be judgmental toward yourself and others in your daily life.
There are many people who do not practice a religion, who do not meditate, pray or belong to any group, who are very spiritual people. These people naturally do caring things for others. They think about how they can help. Their thoughts are kind rather than judgmental toward themselves and toward others. When you look at them, you see their kindness in their eyes.
There are many religious people who are anything but kind. We all know of religious people who are extremely judgmental, righteous, and outright mean. Can you be both religious and spiritual? Of course! But only when you are operating in your religion from your heart rather than from the learned dogma of your mind.
Years ago I very briefly attended a "spiritual" group. People would meet in an auditorium to hear the leader of the group speak. The second time I attended I heard a number of parents yelling at their children and judging them to try to control them. These parents were being anything but kind with their children. That was the last time I attended the spiritual group. The focus of the group was surrender to God, but love was rarely in the picture! They obviously had a very different experience of God than I did.
My experience of God is that God is the energy of Love that created us and sustains us. In my experience, “God is Spirit" (John 4:24) and “God is love" (1 John 4:16). Anything that is not of love, peace, joy, truth and kindness is not of God. Praying to God does not mean that you are allowing the spirit that is God - the love, peace, joy, truth and kindness that is God - to guide your thoughts and actions. Practicing yoga or meditating does not mean that you have invited the love that is God into your heart, or that you are turning to that ever-present love to learn about what is in your highest good, and the highest good of others and the planet.
If you want to be a spiritual person, then let kindness be your guiding light - kindness toward yourself, toward others, toward animals, and toward this beautiful planet that is our home. Recognize that we all have the spark of love that is God within us, and learn to honor that love so that you can know and experience the Oneness of all that is.
About the Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. best-selling author of eight books, and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding healing process. Visit her web site for a FREE Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com. Phone sessions available.
SPIRITUAL, MYSTICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL & POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS BASED ON MEDITATION VISION!!
Spiritual Announcement: “Money, Love & Fame will be Auto Overflowed (AutOverflowed) towards you- if you start Reading, Writing, Sharing, Discussing and Telling Spiritual, Social, Psychological and Mystical Topics!!”
-Agyatasheesh (PSN-02/ATAMPA),
Dec. 18. 2009
Saluting all and the whole!
“Heavenly World”-
Only Proutists may make the World – the Heaven, otherwise it will become Hell!
Proutistic Governments means ‘Sadvipra Raj’. Sadvipras, in whose hands the Proutistic Governments’ Powers will be Centralized and Sadvipras will be elected by the Public.
Public should know, How to Identify Sadvipras and Sadvipras should know – How to Remain Sadvipra in their lives, How to Identify Sadvipras and How to make Other People a Sadvipra.
The Basic Five Fundamentals of the Proutistic Governance Theory come from the Great Book – A’nanda Su’tam, written by Srii Srii A’nandaMu’rti ( the Founder of A’nanda Ma’rga).
Finally, I mean to say, “If A’nanda Su’tram is read, understood, explained and taught by the Public in the World- the World may become Heavenly!
In a Spiritual, Meditation Vision (on Dec. 11. 2009) of ‘Shoonya Alok ’ ( the Top Spiritual World of ‘Agyat Sansar’) - Ba’ba’ (Srii Srii A’nanda Mu’rti) Ordered me to Write Review on A’nada Su’tram. What I will write as He will write using me- I don’t know. Because I am not an enlightened one! Why I will writeas He will write using me- I don’t know, because I don’t know: who am I, why I am, what I am. You may say me a mad, bad or innocent; but, what can I do? – He is Omnipotent, Omnipresent- I am just empty, non-potent!
You are invited to Join, Post, Discuss on Any Type of Spiritual Messages, Topics. Please also start new spiritual topics.
“A’nanda Su’tram”
This Book contains of Great Thoughts, Philosophy, Stepwise Discipline for Internal (Personal, Spiritual) and External (Social) Developments for Entire Humanity.
Please note in your heart that- “Any Spiritual Philosophy of Any Religion or Cult is Fruitful, Blissful for the Whole Humanity of Any Ages, Times!!
Spiritual Commandments Or Spiritual Guidelines?
By Richard Blackstone
Once you start waking up to your true authentic self you begin
to change the concepts that have held you in a bondage of fear.
As you awaken to the light of true consciousness, the fears that
have enslaved you in your past don't look so fearsome in the
light of awareness.
We see things for what they are and we observe whether they
serve us or not, given our definition of who we are and who we
determine ourselves to be. So when we take on the paradigm that
we are one with God and start to challenge the institutions that
have held us in fear for so long, we begin to examine the core
concepts of all three major institutions and take a closer look
at God's commandments.
When we immerse ourselves in the concepts of unity and love we
take on the knowledge that God is the source of all that is, and
we are created in the image and likeness of God. So we are made
of the same stuff as God and have the same talents and
abilities. At the core of God is love, and at our core is love.
Our purpose, as spirit children, is to experience in the
relative physical world all that God knows conceptually in the
absolute world. Because God's true essence is love, then the
belief system that God goes by is a love-based belief system.
This is what God is. In order to experience God's belief system,
we are allowed to know what God's belief system is not. In fact
we must know and experience what God's belief system is not in
order for us to know experientially exactly what it is.
God sent his belief system to us not only in the core being
that we are, but also in a physical form so that man would have
a tangible thing to know of that represents God's value system.
We have come to describe this physical representation of these
values as “The Ten Commandments.” We have based our core
institutions of religion, education and government on them in
order to control us under threat of condemnation to hell if we
don't follow them.
When we see how all these institutions have followed the values
prescribed by these commandments we see the hypocrisy that we
have allowed ourselves to live under because of our fears. We
see how each of these institutions has lied, cheated and stolen
under the sanctimonious guise of doing it for our benefit in
order for us to get into heaven. The unholiest of unholies is
how each of these institutions has lead us to kill our fellow
human beings and say that it was justified in accordance with
God's laws and commandments.
The only God they could be talking about is the God of
separation and fear, who holds himself out to be a monarch and
who is separate from us and separate from the universe he
created. Only the God of fear would be separate from the very
commandments he sent to us and told us not to violate under
threat of condemnation to hell.
The God of Love and unity has a value system that he instilled
in us and that has been revealed to us in physical form. But
this God would not command us to never violate these values
because this God wants us to experience what we are not in order
to know what we are. How could we possibly do that if, in so
doing, we violate a commandment that she told us not to violate?
The God of Love would not do that. The God of Love would not
command us to do anything because the whole premise of our
“being” is to create the experiences on earth that we choose
using our free will, without restrictions or limitations. The
God of Love does not interfere (enter-fear) with our choices. We
make the choices. To interfere with our choices would negate the
whole premise of God's purpose and violate the process of life.
So, yes, we are privy to God's values, both within our very
souls and also within the concept of The Ten Commandments. But
instead of using these as God's commandments, we should use them
under the concept of God's guidelines. For God, in the form of
the soul, is here to guide us in this earthly journey but she is
not here to command us to do one thing or another. We are at
free choice to be and do one thing or another.
We are at free choice to call this value system “commandments”
or “guidelines.” Man, not God, is the one who has told us for
2,000 years that these are commandments, through man's written
and spoken words. But what man says or writes doesn't make it
so. Remember, everything is temporal and temporary. Everything
is a matter of perspective. The only constant in the universe is
change.
About the Author: Richard Blackstone is an award winning author
and international speaker on Love, Oneness & Creation. Journey
into discovery of Self by reading this FREE report; "The 3
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