Sense

What is the driving force behind our actions? How can we be attentive to a “purpose” in life? How can we measure the strength of our actions?

Yosho Yamamoto had an idea:

“I have the impression that todays young samurai have set their goals lamentably low. They have the furtive vision of thieves. Most are only searching for personal interests and to make gala of their intelligence. Even those appear to have a calm soul are only showing a facade. This attitude is not convenient. A Samurai is only truly a Samurai in the measure that it has no other desire than to die quickly and be pure of spirit, offering his life to the master”.

This is a good way to start my posts, I guess one of the main reasons I haven’t been able to be constant at writing my blog is because I have generated a series of expectations where my intellectual, technical skill and good taste is immediately recognized and referred to. But I guess these are the state of things, and we have to thank “google” for it’s wondrous system for giving value to our social acceptance by referral, I mean common! Who hasn’t done a vanity search?

I truly believe and know of plenty of authors that don’t waste their energy and time in taking on spreading pointless information, in an era that is reigned by the “youtubes”, “myspaces” and “user generated dis-content”. So I dedicate this post to the Samurai’s of information i.e.: John Maeda, Lee Brimlow, and all those that don’t mind staying up all night (even if their drunk; your kinda sweeping some sss in some videos Lee) in front of a monitor, notepad or book to share their art even without the slightest possibility of retribution. THANK YOU.