[Candor7]

I understand your kannagara.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

How wonderful. I believe you do. I was trained on that path by a Master, Shibata Kanjuro XX Sensei

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Love you Fred!

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Makoto & Kannagara-no-michi

Shinto beliefs, then, are not centered around official creeds or codified systems of theology or ethics, but instead are a distinct sensibility that underlies an entire approach to life and the world. This can be captured not only with the phrase mono no aware, but also with the concepts of makoto and kannagara-no-michi.

[Fred Nerks]

I'm currently reading Laurens Van Der Post Yet Being Someone Other and what he writes about his time in pre-WW2 Japan makes me wonder what drove that nation to join with the Germans...but then, I have read, the Germans and the Japanese recognised an affinity in each other's national character.

iirc, it had something to do with duty, pride and honour.

Well, Germany had Hitler usurp the government under the guise of fighting communism and communists were Jews; China had the communist Mao under whom a hundred million starved or were liquidated, Russia had Lenin/Stalin...and we know how bolshevism turned out for Russia. I've not yet spent the time to try to understand what led the Japanese into the quagmire. Duty, pride and honour were subverted in Germany and Japan, while the majority of Russia didn't even know what was happening.

There's a devil in there somewhere...