The Last Samurai: F'ING GREAT MOVIE![8D][:D][^] anyone reading this thread who hasn't seen it should check it out.
as for the astral sword thing: instead of trying to draw the sword into existance, try just standing as though it would be out in front of you and then try and use your energy to form the sword in a ready position. practice doing so on the physical with just your energy and in your dreams with your mind, that should help somewhat [|)].
and on a side note: after watching the last samurai i was trying to recall all the virtues that the samurai were supposed to have, but i can't remember if there are supposed to be five or seven and i can only recall five. Honour, Courage, Discipline, Duty, ... err, dang. now i can only recall four [:I]. does anyone remember the rest of them? thanks in advance [:)].
~kakkarot
its Honor, disapline, duty, courage, skill, life, devotion. And thanks i'll give that a shot.
loyalty/devotion is the one i couldn't remember last time, thanks.
and i guess i could have been wrong on how many there were: most websites that i've looked up have different size lists, eventhoug those lists don't match each other *rolls eyes*.
skill and life eh? those would indeed be good things for a samurai to value. do you know where you got those from? thanks [|)]
~kakkarot
The Last Samurai was awesome!
Hey its possible to form things in the astral based on your imagination.. so just make a sword into your hand, im not sure what you would need to defend you self against but I would imagine it wouldnt be to hard...
then again, what do I know?
-Aries
Knowing how to use a sword on earth wont help you kick butt in astral. If I wanted to win a fight with a sword there, I would simply materialize the sword already piercing the enemy.
while beavis makes a good point in that sword techniques likely aren't going to help you too much on the astral, i must point out that the ideals of war are applicable everywhere.
i suggest you read Sun Tsu's "The Art of War" (if you haven't already) for a good beginner's guide to understanding war.
~kakkarot
Hmmm I didnt think of that beavis... nice
Although would you be able to do that? Cause to bring it into existence actually in someone, wouldnt it be like a mental battle? Its hard to explain what im thinking, but wouldnt you have to effectivly kill the being befor you put the sword thrue it?
The being has its own "energy field" so to speak, that you would have to bring the weapon into. I think it would be extremely hard to create something already in a person or neg or whatever.
Imagine if a astral being tried it on you. Do you think it would work?
-Aries
Ok did any one check out the LAST SAMURAI yet? cause what I have to say has something to do with the fact of the samurai....not the movie.
I have been doing some training recently with the katana, a japanese samurai sword. And I have been wondering if these skills can be used in the astral plane of exsistence? so that if I need to defend myself I can. So I've herd that you can but I tried and it doesn't seem to work It just when I try to do it i draw for it but it's not there so that when I go to do it I can train in the astral plane doesn't work so can someone help me fiqure out why?