Samurai journey is the biography of Osamu Osawa. Samurai is the sector of people with disciplined culture. They all had very strong character. I was fascinated about Samurai when I watched the movie “Last Samurai”. Being trained in disciplined martial arts, I was able to relate to that culture. Strong character involves collection of beautiful traits. One of those traits is indomitable spirit or undying will. Being born into the samurai family, Osamu had this trait deep in his character. Throughout his life, there were lots of ups and downs. He was very famous once in Japan and then in another couple of years, he came down to the streets in US. Around World War II, he was part of the Japan’s air force and went near to the death and came back. He had multiple relationships breakup due to his life circumstances. Whenever he failed in his choices, he learnt his lessons and came back very strongly. Life throwed him a lot of unexpected failures but they couldn’t conquer him. One thing I really wondered is his courage to try new things and make it success. Generally as human beings, we tend to live in our comfort or safe zone. There is not much freedom there. We are afraid of failures to venture into new things. Sometimes failures are as essential as success itself. It creates certain level of balance within ourselves. Sometimes continuous success make people go out of balance and crazy. In Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says there is no success or failures and we always gain as long as we are open to learn the life lessons. Learning is the key and we should never lose sight of ourselves. All our frustrations or disappointments is due to our emotional attachment with success or failures. If we have learning attitude towards life, we can always grow irrespective of life situations.
Osamu was one of the very senior instructors in Karate (Shotokan). He got trained directly under Master Funakoshi. Osamu is yet another example of beautiful human being cultivated by disciplined martial arts.
