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Iyeyasu Tokugawa's Legacy:

"Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience is the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou hast passed through. Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Look upon wrath as thy enemy. If thou knowest only what it is to conquer, and knowest not what it is to be defeated, woe unto thee; it will fare ill with thee. Find fault with thyself rather than with others"



for those of you unfamiliar with iyeyasu, he founded the Tokugawa Shogunate and gave to Japan perhaps the longest era of peace that archipelago of islands has ever known.
like Socrates he ranked wisdom as the only virtue.
He was the driving force behind the famous battle of Sekigahara, which left 40,000 dead. That may seem like a contradiction to my statement of his bringing peace to Japan, but after besieging Osaka Castle, where the Regent Hideyori (Iyeyasu's deceased friend Hideyoshi's son and heir) was established, he captured it, while the young Hideyori committed hara-kiri (ritual suicide). Then Iyeyasu ensured his hold on power by killing all of Hideyori's children. Iyeyasu then organized peace as ably and ruthlessly as he had organized war. He administered Japan so well that for eight generations it was content to be ruled by his posterity and principles.
The time was contemporary to Elizabeth and Akbar.

It must be admitted, says Durant, that iyeyasu organized the most perfect form of feudal government ever known

It was the judgment of Lafcadio Hearn that "the Tokugawa period was the happiest in the long life of the nation."

History, though it can never quite know the past, inclines tentatively to the same conclusion.

although, it has been said, by a Japanese essayist, "your information about us, is based on the meager translations of our immense literature, if not the unreliable anecdotes of passing travelers."

Hearn was more intimate with Japan than any other Western writer of his time, and yet he spoke of "the immense difficulty of perceiving and comprehending what underlines the surface of Japanese life."

and...as is well put by Durant :

"The first lesson of philosophy is that we may all be mistaken"


I weave in the history, between the quotes, so it can be appreciated better, so the context is understood easier, so the meaning is more profound. I hope nobody minds, however, I did supply some good "famous quotes' in this email as well, so I am confident it meets the guidelines for this forum.

Have a nice day

Randy

love life

Randy Carpenter
mojomagika@cox.net



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