The Song, Rose, "The Soul Afraid of Dying"

This song is from a movie. The movie is the same name as the song. It is "Rose". The movie was about live and death of a singer. People may have opinions on the movie. The movie, however, was very impressive one. The singer, Rose, in the movie, lived in her full length to accomplish her life work, sing. The meaning of life could move viewers' soul. The movie is like supporter for viewers' lives. This is one of the movies makes viewers think about meaning of their lives and encourage people to make decisions in difficult times.

Bette Midler played the role of Rose. She is also the singer of this song. In addition to its beautiful melody, this song has meaningful lyric.

Starting the phrase "Some said love, it is the river", this song asks listeners meaning of love. It goes "I say love, it is the flower, and you, its only seed." It continues "the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance". It teaches people that they will not gain unless they try. It also songs "the dream afraid of waking, never takes the chance." Do not continue to just dream. Dream will come true if one takes his action. "It's the one who won't be taking who cannot seem to give". It is true that the one, who is not willing to be helped, tends not to help. The most impressive part of the song is the next one. "And the soul afraid of dying, never learns to live." If one were afraid of making mistakes, he would not do anything. If he does not do anything, he will gain nothing.



Whenever one needs to make difficult and painful decisions in life, this phrase and song would help listeners to encourage themselves. One would not be afraid of dyeing if he could learn how to live. Nobody hopes to face life or death decision. Iron cold truth of life would sometimes make anyone to face this much difficult decision. Would it not be true?

Life, however, is not just hardship. The song continues, "When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long". Everybody feels this way in his difficult moment. He may also think as this song goes as "and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong". When one is down, he would not be able to believe love is for him, too.

This song finishes by assuring that one will regain his love some day, if he does not give up. "Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lays the seed that with the sun's love, in the spring, becomes the rose."

Remark of Song Lyrics: CMT: Song Lyrics: The Rose Lyrics: Floyd Cramer. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cmt.com/lyrics/floyd-cramer/the-rose/4206129/lyrics.jhtml




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Zen Paradox

Zen, being a part of Buddhism, teaches people that they can reach the ultimate status of mind by training. The ultimate status of mind is equivalent to Awakening or Epiphany in Christianity. It is the status of mind, which will not be influenced by the external environment. One's mind is free. It is free from pain, agony, fear, anger, anxiety, or worry. It is even free from life or death. The status exists over and beyond the life or death. What training will bring one this mind status? This training includes prayer, meditation, martial art, and paradox discussion.

Despite Zen is well-known practice for meditation worldwide, people do not know the paradox discussion. It may be because only Zen monks practice this paradox discussion. The purpose of this paradox discussion is to find the truth of nature by casting contradictory questions to natural phenomenon or people's behavior or thinking.

There are some famous Zen paradoxes; "Nothing is everything. Everything is nothing." While there are many interpretations of this statement, let us pay attention to another paradox question.

The paradox is; "The strong is not strong because his strength." The whole sentence reads; "The strong is not strong because of his strength, but because of his weakness. The strong will not lose because of his weakness, but of his strength". It continues; "The weak is not weak because of his weakness. He is strong and wins because of his weakness."

There was exceptionally strong Samurai clan in 15th century Japan, the time of the Dark Age. The family's name was "Takeda". The head of the clan, Shingen Takeda was excellent strategist. One of the early adopter of "Guns" brought into Japan. He trained his gunmen and formed gun company. People of that time agreed that his army was strongest in Japan.

After the death of Shingen Takeda, his son, Katsuyori, inherited his army. His army was as strong as his fathers. He fought against Nobunaga Oda. Katsuyori was so confident that his troops with his father's gun company could defeat Oda. Nobunaga Oda, however, studied everything about gun army company of Takeda and imported newer guns from Europe to win against Takeda. Nobunaga knew even how many gunmen Takeda held. Nobunaga defeated Katsuyori. If Katsuyori's troops were not noted for the strength of gun power, Oda would not have been aware of it and could not study about it. This example is typical on "The strong lost due to its strength."




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Do Not Deny Your Dream

Have not you had an experience you have thought you would have been someone some day. For example, you might have thought you could be a successful businessperson making millions of dollars. You might have denied it 10 seconds later thinking that you will not be that good. You denied your own dreams and hopes. Please, do not deny your dreams and hopes.

One might have thought that a dream would never come true. There is a group of people carry their definition of dreams to be some things, which never come true. There are some people who do not like to have a dream, because they cannot keep their peace of mind. It would be painful for them to think about their dreams, which would never come true, despite that they wanted it come true seriously.

They are afraid of dreaming since they are not sure if they could realize it. Some of them almost determined that they could never be able to realize their dreams. It is painful to dream knowing that it would never come true. It might be true that some dreams could be just illusions. It would be understandable that some people do not hope to be dreamy separated from their own reality.

Please take a moment to think about the nature of the tendency for this denial pattern. The most important reason for one to deny their dreams and hopes is because he is afraid. His fear stops him to believe that his can make it happen. In other words, if one were not afraid, his dream would come true. Another factor is his fear that others would find he has his dream and laugh at it.

Let us examine key factors about dreams:

1. He would not realize his dream, if one did not have one.

2. His dream would never come true, if one did not take actions based on it.

3. He would not take actions if he were afraid of others would deny his dream.

His dream is his own. Nobody should reject dreams of others. One should not be afraid of others denying his dream. Everybody should be aware that no other people would think seriously about his. He is the only one who is responsible for his own dream.

Only these, who made their dreams come true, are the ones who dreamed, who took actions to make things happen, who were not afraid of others denials, and who did not give up their dreams.




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That Is Why It Works

It was the first story of the movie "The Matrix". Neo insisted to attack the military building to save Morpheus when all his team gave up. Neo goes back into "Matrix". Trinity follows. In the preparation stage, Trinity asked, "Nobody has tried this." Trinity meant they would not succeed. Neo answers, "That is why it works." "The Matrix" contains a lot of useful advices for life. This one gives people idea how people can take different opinions viewing the same thing. One was negative. The other was positive.

Quite recently, a good friend of mine started his business. He wanted to get into English Teaching Lessons. He had a unique idea. He explained his plan to his friend. He hoped to have his friends' opinions on his. His friends' reactions and answers were 90% negative. He should stay in his employment. His idea will not work, because nobody appreciates his way. Nobody knows his start-up company. He does not have enough money to open his school and continue running the school. Hi friends gave him many negative opinions. He became depressed. Then, he heard this Neo statement that it works because nobody has tried it, yet. He decided to go ahead for his original plan and started his own business. He does not know if he could be successful. He did he could do and launched his plan to the limited investor people. He could get a favorable response from one of investors and he could get funds.

There was another friend of mine, who started a consulting business for large enterprises. The most of his friends were pessimistic about what he was doing. He remembers that 95% of phone calls he received were negative opinion. All of his family tried to stop him. He did not change his mind. He told to himself that all these negative opinions are a good sign of his plan works. He thought if his plan was lousy people would have ignored it. An off shore electronics company sponsored him. He runs a profitable consulting firm, now.

It is necessary to listen to others' opinions. One should not ignore their opinion. The important is what he will do after listened to these opinions. Will he follow other opinions? Will he get the essence of other opinions and digest to nurture his own idea or plan? It is not so easy to keep identity of one's opinion when the one receives rejections and opposition. The most important, it seems, is that he keeps his faith to his own ideas and opinions. This is the most crucial to be successful. Do not be shaky by rejections and opposition. Keep faith on what is believable. It is not what one thinks and does. It is one believes himself.


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