There are many 7 basic aspects that are known to be covered by the warriors of the old but the most generalised list would be as follow:
勇 Yuu -Courage 仁 Jin - Benevolence
名 Mei - Honour 誠 Sei -Sincerity
忠 Chuu - Loyalty 義 Gi - Justice
礼 Rei - Respect
In my opinion, the 7 aspects listed above are too over blown to be only be adopted by the warriors. In fact, most of the aspects are what makes one a better human rather than just warriors.
What I will be touching upon is the aspect of 礼 Rei for this post. And now I will demonstrate one of the most typical disrespect of most of us Brunei youths would do, diss other people.
This will be my example by dissing some of the kendoka that the reader may know of, or they themselves.
One point of disrespect I have seen was the demo done at the CCA appreciation day to the students and staff of MD with one of the senior wearing a haori, another senior leading the juniors to do Haedong Gumdo kata and also pointing a replica kata at camera without regards of respect. For this matter, it has already shown the disrespect of the kendoka on the expectation of the crowd to know what the students actually learn in the CCA of kendo. Yes, you guys know who you are. It may make you look cool doing what isn't in kendo, but in the eyes of other kendo-ka, you are making a fool out of what we and you are learning, that is kendo, its a form of disrespect. It's just like doing a lion dance during Hari Raya celebration party, cool to look at but not the correct thing shown to the people.
I, who am now dissing these juniors of mine is no where better as I am disrespecting them by pointing out their misbehaviour blunty.
The point I want to make here is, two wrong doesn't make a right. For the juniors to do things to show off and give people the wrong impression about kendou and for me dissing them on doing so wouldn't revert what was being done.
That's why in kendou, we learn the very first set of training for 礼法 Rei Hou, the method to respect (a.k.a etiquette). Through the learning of reihou, we learn to respect one another, not only between individuals but also the respect to the training ground, dojo, keikogu and etc.
This would also include people you dislike or hate, but when within the dojo, issues and disputes outside of the dojo will be left outside of the dojo. Within the keikojo, you will have to treat each other with respect as mere equals of kendoka. The cliche "ha....it's easy for you to say" response would be expected among the readers, but so do I. Its not necessarily a mandatory, DoD (do or die) rule but rather a target or ideal for us to achieve which would cultivate self discipline and control within ourselves.
During training, us as kendoka, would of course has the main priority to better hone our skills and strengthen our understanding towards the path of the sword. Other irrelevant emotions that are not related to training would of course be advised not to be touched upon during training.
Theres a common believe in most Japanese (so are most people around the world) when faced against an opponent or training partner that isn't putting their all into their actions, its an insult and disrespectful. Thus, those of you who wonder why is Ali so pissed sometimes, do understand.
A small conclusion for the dissing on the early part of the article and the statements after that,
勇 Yuu -Courage 仁 Jin - Benevolence
名 Mei - Honour 誠 Sei -Sincerity
忠 Chuu - Loyalty 義 Gi - Justice
礼 Rei - Respect
In my opinion, the 7 aspects listed above are too over blown to be only be adopted by the warriors. In fact, most of the aspects are what makes one a better human rather than just warriors.
What I will be touching upon is the aspect of 礼 Rei for this post. And now I will demonstrate one of the most typical disrespect of most of us Brunei youths would do, diss other people.
This will be my example by dissing some of the kendoka that the reader may know of, or they themselves.
One point of disrespect I have seen was the demo done at the CCA appreciation day to the students and staff of MD with one of the senior wearing a haori, another senior leading the juniors to do Haedong Gumdo kata and also pointing a replica kata at camera without regards of respect. For this matter, it has already shown the disrespect of the kendoka on the expectation of the crowd to know what the students actually learn in the CCA of kendo. Yes, you guys know who you are. It may make you look cool doing what isn't in kendo, but in the eyes of other kendo-ka, you are making a fool out of what we and you are learning, that is kendo, its a form of disrespect. It's just like doing a lion dance during Hari Raya celebration party, cool to look at but not the correct thing shown to the people.
I, who am now dissing these juniors of mine is no where better as I am disrespecting them by pointing out their misbehaviour blunty.
The point I want to make here is, two wrong doesn't make a right. For the juniors to do things to show off and give people the wrong impression about kendou and for me dissing them on doing so wouldn't revert what was being done.
That's why in kendou, we learn the very first set of training for 礼法 Rei Hou, the method to respect (a.k.a etiquette). Through the learning of reihou, we learn to respect one another, not only between individuals but also the respect to the training ground, dojo, keikogu and etc.
This would also include people you dislike or hate, but when within the dojo, issues and disputes outside of the dojo will be left outside of the dojo. Within the keikojo, you will have to treat each other with respect as mere equals of kendoka. The cliche "ha....it's easy for you to say" response would be expected among the readers, but so do I. Its not necessarily a mandatory, DoD (do or die) rule but rather a target or ideal for us to achieve which would cultivate self discipline and control within ourselves.
During training, us as kendoka, would of course has the main priority to better hone our skills and strengthen our understanding towards the path of the sword. Other irrelevant emotions that are not related to training would of course be advised not to be touched upon during training.
Theres a common believe in most Japanese (so are most people around the world) when faced against an opponent or training partner that isn't putting their all into their actions, its an insult and disrespectful. Thus, those of you who wonder why is Ali so pissed sometimes, do understand.
A small conclusion for the dissing on the early part of the article and the statements after that,
Respect cultivates self control and self control cultivates respect. Self discipline would benefit from it.
Til' the next post,
Ja mata zo!
-Takeshi 武-
28th December
十二月二十八日 月曜日
Comments (3)
konbanwa senpai~
i like to name my kendo equipment such as shinai.is my action is considered as disrespect to kendo?
konbanwa,
if you look carefully on most shinai, there are names engraved on them. It's kinda like products being named like a music player names iP*d.
but what I mean disrespecting kendo here is making people taking in the wrong image about kendo.
It's just like when during Indian festival and you do a cooler looking traditional tarian Melayu and people thing "so that's bollywood dance by the Indian".
Hope that clears you up on the point I want to make.
i can understand now..thanks for the explaination.