THE LAST SAMURAI

Last night WOF visited the Last Samurai Exhibition in Palazzo Reale Milano. This gives the feel of authentic Samurai lives. The costumes are detailed and stunning pieces of art in themselves. You can almost sense the warriors staring out at you from dark holes in their masks. Waiting silently for the right moment to come.

The warriors operated under the Budokan code The Way Of The Samurai and Pure Land Zen Buddhism. They had become so impressed many years earlier when under orders from the Emperor to cull religious power the attacked and burned a Zen monastery only to find zen masters sitting in meditation engulfed in flames.

Many years later the learned the teaching. Do not worry about the sword. Concentrate on the space it uses, of its movement through the air. Of the change of energy and force it uses.

See this if you can.