7/31/2019 The Meditative Warriors Samurai

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Osho explains that meditation

and swordsmanship, archery, or

other ways of the warrior are

joined together in a Samurai.

cientists may think thatlife is centred in the heart,

that if the heart stops, you

are dead. It is not true. There

have been experiments proving

certainly that the heart can be

stopped and the person does

not die. After ten minutes he

comes back, and the heart starts

again. According to the

spiritual science, life is just two

inches below the navel. The child was joined by thenavel to the mother. And the navel was nursing the

source inside, two inches below... It has been cut from

the mother's life, but it is still joined with the universe

from the same place. It is not in the heart, it is just two

inches below the navel.

And because of this, in Japan a certain thing

developed: hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is a special kind of

suicide. Hara is the name of the centre below the navel,

where life is. And only in Japan has it been possible to

locate it exactly. A certain development in Japanese

tradition led to this point: if you want to kill yourself,the best, the quickest, and the most comfortable way is

just to put a knife in the centre of the hara, so the cord is

cut. That happens within seconds, and the person is

dead, but he does not suffer any agony.

And the science of health, medicine, has to take note

of it, because if it is the real centre of life, then it should

be nourished when a person is dying or sick. Rather

than working on other places which are only offshoots,

work at the centre. Perhaps a totally new science of

medicine and health can come out of it.

The hara has not been recognised anywhere exceptJapan. But Japan has proved it, that there is the centre of

life, because within a second the person is finished --

and with no agony, no anguish. His face is as it was

when he was alive -- not even any tension.

Hara-kiri developed for a strange reason. It is part of

the Samurai training in Japan. The Samurai is a special

kind of warrior. He is a meditative warrior. Life and

death are equal to him, but honour, respectability,

dignity, is higher than anything else. So if anything

happens that he feels is humiliating, then it is not worth

living, and he commits hara-kiri. It is not good to

translate it as suicide, but

there is no other way.

Thousands of samurai have

committed hara-kiri. You

cannot hurt the integrity of any

samurai. It is dangerous -- hewill not kill you, he will kill

himself. Life has lost meaning;

if people cannot respect him,

there is no reason why he

should live. And he lives with

dignity. The samurai is a special

development of human

individuality, and utterly

devoted to freedom. Anything

hurting him, or anything

destroying his freedom or hishonour...

In the Second World War it was a danger, that you

can destroy Japan but you cannot win. It was the atomic

bombs which changed the situation; otherwise the

ordinary war... Thirteen years after the Second World

War, a man was found hiding in a forest, still fighting.

Whenever he could find an opportunity, he would kill

an American and then go back to the forest. He was

caught thirteen years after the Second World War, and

when he was told that Japan had been defeated, he

could not believe it. He said, "That is impossible. Japancan be destroyed, but cannot be defeated. It is a land of

Samurais. We live with dignity, we die with dignity." He

could not believe it -- thirteen years had passed, and he

was still fighting for Japan, alone. Meditation and

swordsmanship, or archery, or other ways of the warrior,

have been joined together. To us it seems too much, that

a person should destroy himself, but to those thousands

who have committed hara-kiri it is not the case. They are

not destroying themselves, they are simply leaving this

life -- this life is not worth living, something has gone

wrong. It is against their honour to be here.Through hypnosis we can make a person aware of

how this rising upwards happens, and how he can enter

the body again. And once you have done it, a post-

hypnotic suggestion can be given, that you can do it on

your own, any time you want. And it is a tremendously

beautiful experience, for the simple reason that for the

first time you find that the prison is not you. Your body

is one thing; you are totally different: you are eternal,

immortal. Bodies have come and gone; you have been

here since eternity, and you will be here until eternity.

-Osho, Beyond Psychology

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The Meditative

Warrior: Samurai

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