HAGAKURE: The Book of the Samurai | Monday Waffles #001. A short Livestream talking about the classic "manual for the samurai classes" Hagakure. It was written between 1710 and 1716 by Yamamoto Tsunetomo [1659-1719].

00:00 Introduction talking NOBODY, Hangovers, & Usagi Yojimbo
11:00 Reading from HAGAKURE

"The book records Yamamoto's views on bushido, the warrior code of the samurai. Hagakure is sometimes said to assert that bushido is really the "Way of Dying" or living as though one was already dead, and that a samurai must be willing to die at any moment in order to be true to his lady/lord. His saying "the way of the warrior is death" was a summation of the willingness to sacrifice that bushido codified. Hagakure's text is occasionally misinterpreted as meaning that bushido is a code of death. However, the true meaning is that by having a constant awareness of death, people can achieve a transcendent state of freedom, whereby “it is possible to perfectly fulfill one’s calling as a warrior.”
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