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East & West or "The Synthese"
East & West or "The Synthese"
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[...] After the typhoon had passed, nearly five hundred trees were around our house and the Shinto shrine on the ground. Some were so old that we as children could include their tribes only five or six of us, even when we are quite far-stretched arms and bordered on each other's hands.
In the bamboo grove, which grows on the southern slope of the hill in a damp place and the typhoon is the most exposed, not a single tribe was broken. The slender tree tall bamboo poles were still there as before the storm and rustled their leaves. Be flexible and bend under the impact of a hazard is an old saying. They grew out of the experience with nature. She is Japanese folk wisdom.
It's a piece astuteness of the people. What good is it if you are standing upright and defiant then breaks? Many it is better to be flexible and to preserve its strength for the time after the storm. That is the wisdom of bamboo. It has many aspects. Mendacious it was, I have heard German, if you are not clear for entering what you think is right and which one believes.
Truth is to be a German virtue. One would always stand up, be true to yourself. Japanese say: there are other ways to make your own strength of character to the test. With defiant Austrumpfen it is not always done. There are forces which are stronger than any resistance, but they are sometimes defeated by toughness.
Pliable and tough trying to be the Japanese, such as bamboo in the storm. The bamboo wisdom to be a keystone in the Japanese life. It shapes the human relationships. Wherever people come together - if only for a brief moment in life or for many years, tensions arise naturally. Nowhere in Japan the pattern is codified, be mitigated by the tensions arising from the differences in human nature. But all accept the principle: Gentleness is strength.[...]
Source: Weg zu Japan by Hisako Matsubara, West-östliche Erfahrungen, 1983
In the bamboo grove, which grows on the southern slope of the hill in a damp place and the typhoon is the most exposed, not a single tribe was broken. The slender tree tall bamboo poles were still there as before the storm and rustled their leaves. Be flexible and bend under the impact of a hazard is an old saying. They grew out of the experience with nature. She is Japanese folk wisdom.
It's a piece astuteness of the people. What good is it if you are standing upright and defiant then breaks? Many it is better to be flexible and to preserve its strength for the time after the storm. That is the wisdom of bamboo. It has many aspects. Mendacious it was, I have heard German, if you are not clear for entering what you think is right and which one believes.
Truth is to be a German virtue. One would always stand up, be true to yourself. Japanese say: there are other ways to make your own strength of character to the test. With defiant Austrumpfen it is not always done. There are forces which are stronger than any resistance, but they are sometimes defeated by toughness.
Pliable and tough trying to be the Japanese, such as bamboo in the storm. The bamboo wisdom to be a keystone in the Japanese life. It shapes the human relationships. Wherever people come together - if only for a brief moment in life or for many years, tensions arise naturally. Nowhere in Japan the pattern is codified, be mitigated by the tensions arising from the differences in human nature. But all accept the principle: Gentleness is strength.[...]
Source: Weg zu Japan by Hisako Matsubara, West-östliche Erfahrungen, 1983
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