The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-13
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THE JAPANESE SCHOOL
OF SOUL TRAINING.
The Course Of Yomai
Which Makes Soldiers.


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Ills FUND Of fearsome ghost stories was
inexhaustible. Behind the dilapIdated
mousse stretched a bamboo grove. In the
| direction Of a moss-covered graveyard
OF an ancient temple. The old man
counted the number Of his boy guests
and took as many candles into tho
graveyard. There he lit them. ana hid
them n all sorts Of corners among the
tombstones. Then he came back ia
tell the most horrible ghost stories.
When the midnight hour came We drew
lofs, and the boy who drew No. 1 went
through the 300 yard stretch of tie
thlck bamboo grove, in the thick dark
ness OF midnight, to find one of the
candles and bring it back. The nights
selected were always stormy. Many a
night do | remember having waded
through the mud of the bamboo forest
to pass into the graveyard. But in
more remarkable and virile days than
ours, our sires went through still more
trying training, for when they were
not quite ten years old they had to
visit, in the still hours Of dark nights.
the decapltated heads of criminals ex-
posed on the highway for the ethical
education Of the passersby. ana they
We're told to leave mark upon the
scaffold to show that they were not in
q hurry to escape from the grim SIGHT.
AZ the beginning Of the present war
Admiral Togo, in a conversation. said.
= am not learned scholar but from
my youth up my masters compelled me
to examine, and carefully follow. The
teachings of the School Of YUmai ii
seems TO me that a soldier can derive
q great deal of benefit from the School
OF Iomai." What is this famous
School Of Yomai, OF which such won
derful things are told by others. as we'll
as hinnosuki? 1t was simply the
course Of soul-training in which multi
tudes Of the soldiers and sailors now At
war with Russia graduated. II il the
system Of the Chinese philosopher.
Yomai, carried out to final issues. The
ftdrth step taken by the disciple Of
the old Samurai traditions is his intro
duction to this school Of philosophy.
Yomai emphasized above everything
else what he styled the dominant
weight Of the soul" BY this the Jan
anese understand the poise Of nerve
that can be shaken BY nothing in life
Or death. The keynote Of las strange
philosophy is exactly the opposite Of
the dominant note in Western atheism
for it Is identical with d conviction of
absolute deathlessness Of the soul To
the Far Eastern mind life is nothing
but one Of the many passing express
sions Of the eternal entity, the s'nou-
mena.v
Therefore, as Kinnosuki puts il.
when you say you have plucked 4
Hover or killed a man. you have only
destroyed one Of the countless expres-
sions Of the eternity which you have
never touched-which never can be
touched. SO there is no death TO the
Nippon warrior, except phase Of
sleep. Vivid Illustrations of this con
viction have been supplied during the
present conflict There lies before me
a japanese print representing the meet
Ing under the sea of Admiral Makaroff
who was blown up with his shin. ana
Commander Hirose, the hero Of the
Dottling up of Afakaroff in Port ArtsAr.
Hirose, who was blown to pieces hy |
Russian shell during his effort. said
before he met his fate, IF | die this |
time, shall come back nine times
over, until | see this work Of mine |
That is the old Samurai
lccent, expressing the spirit that flames I
IN millions of Japanese souls to-day. |
t luridly explains why the Russian
press, after deriding their foes at first /
Is little brown monkeys have
hanged the eplthet to little yellow
levils. Pal Mall Gazette.