Jeg satt og leste i Hagakure da jeg kommer over denne teksten:
"There is nothing that we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, "when your own heart asks."* It can probably be thought of in the same way as the Nembutsu, and previously it was on the lips of many people.
Recently, people who are called "clever" adorn themselves with superficial wisdom and only deceive others. For this reason they are inferior to dull-witted folk. A dull-witted person is direct. If one looks deeply into his heart with the above phrase, there will be no hidden places. It is a good exdaminer. One should be of the mind that, meeting this examiner, he will not be embarrassed."*Dette diktet er et Gosen waka shu som går slik:
"To tell others that / It is a rumor / Will not do. / When your own heart asks, / How will you respond?"Jeg anbefaler alle de som ikke har lest
Hagakure å lese den. Til dere som er skeptiske; har dere vurdert å lese
Trist som faen? I så fall er
Hagakure et bedre valg, og oppbyggingen ligner ganske mye, med tanke på at det bare er en rekke små historier, men i motsetning til Behns bok, får du her i tillegg visdomsord.
Boken kan kjøpes
her. Ellers så går det helt sikkert an å låne den av en eller annen.
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