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.
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
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.
Set your mind to your age and reserve your inner power
It is better to change your reflective mind that characterizes the younger age to the mind set that fits to your current age. Kepping younger reflective mind won't work as the anti aging tactic for it consumes too much of your inner power.
You should expect that you won't be seeing that many people you used to, that you won't have much incidents, affairs or happenings that you used to have. Further you have to accept that it will be your daily life of remaining days.
Then you would be able to live longer with plentiful of your inner power that will be generated by the calm mind that may be set by recognizing what it is left for you. It is of natural anti aging measure to recognize your reality.
This is not that you accept your fate with resignation. If you define what is happening as the fate, your mind cannot be the tool of your anti aging. I know it sounds like it though, the importance is that you live as your age tells. Don't go for younger girls with the help of the fruit of the science. Or don't be too dependent upon cosmetic essentials that are the fruit of science as well.
I don't wear belt anymore, my friend. I got a pair with elastic band sawed in
Let's leave the science for our last minutes. To avoid pain at the time of crimbing to the heaven, (yeah, this is my case) or the other way, if you wish.
I was watching a TV program that featured middle aged ladies who dressed to be looked younger. The lady was 52 years old, wearing currernt fashion suitable to the generation of middle 20th to late 30th at the most. TV announcer had interviewed ladies to whom the fashion fits nicely with showing a couple of photos of this lady.
They unanimously said "Ouch!". What they had read was the effort of this lady. Right! None of them had ever tried to focus what this lady was trying to say. That is "I am not that old as I may be looked upon." This is the irony of the people who does not wish to accept the reality and it sure will decrease your inner power needlessly. It may lead you depression.
