“In the practice of medicine there is a differentiation of treatment according to the Yin and Yang of men and women. There is also a difference in pulse. In the last fifty years, however, men’s pulse has become the same as women’s. Noticing this, in the treatment of eye disease I applied women’s treatment to men and found it suitable. When I observed the application of men’s treatment to men, there was no result. Thus I knew that men’s spirits had weakened and that they had become the same as women and that the end of the world had come. Since I witnessed this with certainty, I kept it a secret. When looking at the men of today with this in mind, those who could be though to have a woman’s pulse are many indeed, and those who seem like real men few. Because of this, if one were to make a little effort, he would be able to take the upper hand quite easily. That there are few men who are able to cut well in beheadings is further proof that men’s courage has waned. And when one comes to speak of Kaishaku (the second in charge of beheading someone who’s decided to commit Seppuku (Japanese ritual suicide)), it has become an age of men who are prudent and clever at making excuses. Forty or fifty years ago, when such things as matanuki (self piercing) were considered manly, a man wouldn’t show an unscarred thigh to his fellows, so he would pierce it himself.
Canadian Dating
Introduction
If you didn’t know my boy Roosh turned the big dirty 30 this weekend and spent it in South America butt fucking pygmies or whatever goes on down there. I mean why would anyone leave the comfort of a nice basement and hot DC chicks to go all “Romancing the Stone” and shit. Then I was flipping through my favorite parts of Hagakure and found the following. “There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he though it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bear it in mind. When one understands this settling into single- mindedness well, his affairs will thin out. Loyalty is also contained within this single-mindedness.” Pg 68 “In other words just live your life, You steady chasin’ that paper, Just live your life”
Side Note
(Side Note: it’s crazy how fast a girl can (and is allowed to) change her mind from having sex to not having it. If you’re on your way back to her place and say the word kittens, you’ll be shocked to how fast her legs close off. Best course of action, shut the fuck up and make out, don’t talk about ANYTHING because you don’t know her well enough to know what will turn her off. On the other hand short of saying she has full blown AIDS there’s practically nothing a woman can say or do to turn most guys off from sex once the guys mind is made up on having sex with her. Ok maybe if she says she has a penis but really, even that is iffy)
Singles
All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this” pg 24 So even in ancient Japan there were herbs and betas? Then I read this post from Roissy. I just think it’s crazy that a philosophical manuscript that was written between 1709 and 1716 contains thoughts on how men should live there lives and act like men. The fact that almost 300 years later many of these principles are still being practiced today and even blogged about trips me out. This story is old but it goes on and on until we disappear.