Stay calm

You will lose your inner power as you get old. You'd better avoid doing things that may decrease your inner power. At first, you should not get angry. Then you should not be deep in grief, depression, nor weep. You must avoid funerals. You should not think about death of any. You should not think too much on the past. People around you won't like your talking too much. You should not talk too fast.

You should avoid insisting yourself, laughing too loud, singing out too loud. You'd better not go too far, better avoid to carry heavy stuffs. You do these to protect your inner power to stay healthy and keep away from physical aging.

I lost one of my closest friends last December. I and two other friends had attended his funeral held in Tokyo. We, several of us including the dead, had been friend since our junior high school year. It's been over 50 years. We have been friends each other much longer period than the period that I had lived with my parents. Isn't it amazing?

He had trouble with his lung and was using air circulation pump to keep his breath. We had promised several years ago that you should meet once a month to confirm each other living. It was December 19th last year. I called his home for the December date. His wife told me that he had passed away. He had hospitalized a week before and died there. I cried. My, my. I wasn't cried when my mother had passed away. But I cried. I had to call up other friends to tell his death. I could not speak no more than a few words. I was stuck with my tear. I just had told other two, "Too late, he's gone. . . . ."

It's been pretty hard to hold my sentiment from excitement. I believe that Ekken must have experienced many of his friends' death. The reason? Well, he died at 84, that is extremely long life at his era of early 18th century.

Know your readiness

You lose your inner power as you get old no matter how you try to cover your cosmetics with various anti aging tactic. You must be careful on everything. If you feel that your inner power won't be enough for what you have been preparing, you must not try that.

This is true. You won't lose power that is stored to accomplish something specific. You may not be able to keep running. You may not be able to jump as you used to. Yet, you can keep reading longer, or keep talking longer and be able to enjoy life better. You won't know what the reality is before you actually experience.

Hey, watch out for a ditch coming up!

That is the problem with the oldness.

And that is why Ekken tells you to follow what you feel. You are no longer a person who can endure things till you attain your goal. It is sad, but is the reality of being old. Don't take me wrong. I am the firm believer of the joy to walk, eat and wear younger as the anti aging measure. That makes you feeling powerful and will remind you of your age with enough power inside. If that is the case, you have to be conscious with your reality. Otherwise you will be beaten hard because of it.

For your real wellness, anti aging life . . .

Ekken does repeatedly states that the olds should stay calm. If you think of his age, 82, that is when he completed this book of Yojokun, it is quite understandable why he says that. Here's another one from different way to put it. I'd recommend that you should pay attention for the later half. It is the basic mutual understanding of Japanese people in daily life. They are the primary difference that make the Chinese or Korean as the separate human beings. Right, separate human beings despite of the look-a-like. I have a lot to say on Chinese. I would do so at nippomac.info/blog/ before Christmas time so that I can enjoy greeting it.

For the real wellness of the olds, you should not expend your power lavishly but should try to save it. You breath calmly and do not make it rough. You have no necessity to talk fast or expend number of words to describe things. You behave calmly so that you would be able to save your inner power that could be the source of your anti aging energy. At the same time there is no need of you to clearly state things, to talk loudly nor to express your profess to any. For you are not the person of the time.

Do not be angry to any, worry about any and blame anyone for the matter that had happen. You should not

Cat rules the world. Oh, you didn't know? Too bad . . . .

regret of your doings of the past. You should not get angry against the rudeness of the others. This is the way to protect your wellness and the modesty that would prove your virtue.

Don't ask me if I can do them all. No way, man. I'm not that old and am only 68. So I get angry with those stupid women/girl who cannot handle chopsticks correctly, who do not hold their huge bag in the crowded trains. Not only that, I can fill your yellow pad with so many things that irritate me in daily life.