Minimalism aims to declutter living spaces or your workplace to be tidy and orderly. For that, it's necessary to own less stuff. Throwing away garbage, junk, we can live surrounded by minimal essential things that are indispensable for daily life, in a Minimalistic way of Life.
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| Katanas (Japanese Samurai swords) (source: the Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
“Bushido means to die.” — This is the famous declaration at the beginning of the book “Hagakure (葉隠; meaning ‘Hidden by Leaves’).” The “Hagakure” is one of the few books systematically expounding the Samurai’s code of conduct, written by a Samurai, Tsunetomo Yamamoto (山本 常朝; 1659-1719) in the Edo period as a spiritual and practical guidebook for Samurai.
Having said that, a Samurai was NOT mandated to give up his Life easily in vain. If so, a Samurai didn’t need to carry two Katanas (刀; Samurai swords) on his waist all the time to protect his own Life. Everyone, including you and me, is destined to die somehow at a moment in our lifetime, even though NO one knows When the end will come. NO human has ever lived without dying over millions of years without exception. So it’s the most important, How to die, and What for to die at any time when we MUST die anyhow.
Aesthetica - ZEN 01 ZEN Minimalism Minimalism aims to declutter living spaces or your workplace to be tidy and orderly. For that, i...
