what do the five rings of miyamoto mushashi mean?
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The Five Rings\nThe Broad Principles of Musashi's Strategy\nExcerpt from "The Ground Book" ... \n\nStategy is the craft of the warrior ... If you practise day and night ... your spirit will naturally broaden. Thus is large scale strategy and the strategy of hand to hand combat propagated in the world. This is recorded for the first time in the five books of Ground, Water, Fire, Tradition (Wind), and Void (Emptiness). This is the Way to learn my strategy:\n\n\nDo not think dishonestly.\n\nThe Way is in training.\n\nBecome aquainted with every art.\n\nKnow the Ways of all professions.\n\nDistinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters.\n\nDevelop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.\n\nPerceive those things which cannot be seen.\n\nPay attention even to trifles.\n\nDo nothing which is of no use.\nIt is important to start by setting these broad principles in your heart, and train in the Way of strategy. If you do not look at things on a large scale it will be difficult for you to master strategy. If you learn and attain this strategy you will never lose even to twenty or thirty enemies.\n\nA Book of Five Rings - Author: Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (Translator)\nSince the publication of its first English translation in 1974, The Book of Five Rings has become an underground classic in the American business community. Here are timeless principles of craft, skill, timing, and spirit from a great samurai warrior—plus background on Zen, Bushido, Heiho, and Musashi's life.\n\nMiyamoto Musashi was born in 1584 in Miyamoto village in the Japanese province Mimasaka. In 1632, he began writing "The Book of Five Rings," which seeks to teach the spiritual and technical aspects of the martial arts. The book's five scrolls; Earth, Water, Fire, Wind (tradition) and Void (emptiness), exemplify different aspects of Musashi's beliefs and his art of fighting.\n\nIn his own words...\n\n"When I had passed the age of thirty and reflected on my experiences, I realized that I had not been victorious because I had an inherent skill for the science and had not deviated from natural principles... I subsequently practiced day to night in order to attain an even deeper principle, and spontaneously came upon the science of martial arts...Trusting in the advantage of military science, as I turn it into the science of all arts and skills. I have no teacher in anything."\n             —Miyamoto Musashi
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The symbol of five intertwined rings was originally designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, but gained widespread popularity due to its promotion by Nazi Germany. Upon its initial introduction, de Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1913 edition of Revue Olympique:\n\nThe emblem chosen to illustrate and represent the world Congress of 1914 ...: five intertwined rings in different colours - blue, yellow, black, green, red - are placed on the white field of the paper. These five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition. \n\nMoreover, the six colours thus combined reproduce those of all the nations without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Argentina, the French, British, American, German, Belgian, Italian, and Hungarian tricolours, the yellow and red of Spain lie next to the new Brazilian and Australian flags, and the old Japan and the young China. This is really an international emblem. \n\n\n\nSome commonly say that the five rings stand for the five continents but what the man who designed it says would be more apt.
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It says 'pitagora suicchi'- this literally means 'Pitagora Switch'. \n\nI just checked on Yahoo Japan for you, and it looks like it is the name of a kind of cartoon show. I've never seen it before though, so I can't tell you anything about the contents of the show.
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Olympic Emblem\n\n 5 Rings Represent 5 Continents\nAfrica, America (North & South),\nAsia, Australia , Europe \n\nThe flag features the emblem of the Olympic Games — five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red respectively) on a white field. This was originally designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, but gained widespread popularity due to its promotion by Nazi Germany [1]. Upon its initial introduction, de Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1913 edition of Revue Olympique:\n\nThe emblem chosen to illustrate and represent the world Congress of 1914 ...: five intertwined rings in different colours - blue, yellow, black, green, red - are placed on the white field of the paper. These five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition. \nIn his article published in the "Olympic Revue" the official magazine of the International Olympic Committee in November 1992, the American historian Robert Barney explains that the idea of the interlaced rings came to Pierre of Coubertin when he was in charge of the USFSA ( Unión des Societes Française de Sports Athletiques): The emblem of the union was two interlaced rings (like the typical interlaced marriage rings) and originally the idea of Austrian psychiatrist Carl Jung because for him the ring meant continuity and the human being. [2]\n\nMoreover, the six colours thus combined reproduce those of all the nations without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Argentina, the French, British, American, German, Belgian, Italian, and Hungarian tricolours, the yellow and red of Spain lie next to the new Brazilian and Australian flags, and the old Japan and the young China. This is really an international emblem. \nThe 1914 Congress had to be suspended due to the outbreak of World War I, but the flag and emblem were later adopted. They would first officially debut at the VIIth Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium in 1920.\n\nThe emblem's popularity and widespread use began during the lead-up to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Carl Diem, president of the Organizing Committee of the 1936 Summer Olympics, wanted to hold a torchbearers' ceremony in the stadium at Delphi, site of the famous oracle, where the Pythian Games were also held. For this reason he ordered construction of a milestone with the Olympic rings carved in the sides, and that a torchbearer should carry the flame along with an escort of three others from there to Berlin. The ceremony was celebrated but the stone was never removed. Later, two British authors Lynn and Gray Poole when visiting Delphi in the late 1950´s saw the stone and reported in their "History of the Ancient Games" that the Olympic rings design came from ancient Greece. This has become known as "Carl Diem's Stone". [3] [4]. This created a myth that the symbol had an ancient Greek origin. The rings would subsequently be featured prominently in Nazi images and theatrics in 1936 as part of an effort to glorify the Third Reich and claim a noble and ancient lineage.\n\nThe current view of the International Olympic Committee is that the flag "reinforces the idea" that the Olympic Movement is international and welcomes all countries of the world to join. [5] Some literature, such as "The World Encyclopedia of Flags" by Alfred Znamierowski, state that each ring represent the five continents. Using this scheme, the Americas is viewed as a single continent, and Antarctica is omitted.\n\nOlympic Rings\n\nThe Olympic Rings were created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1913 and first displayed on the Olympic Flag in 1920. The Olympic symbol of five interlocked rings represents the five original continents (or the five continents that are represented in the games): \n\nAfrica\nAmerica (North & South)\nAsia\nAustralia\nEurope \n\nand the meeting of the athl
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The number five refers to the five continents. He chose six colors (white, red, yellow, green, blue and black) because each flag of the countries that were part of the Olympic movement contain at least one of those colors. The Paris Congress in 1914 was so taken with the design that they adopted it as the official flag of the Olympic movement. The new flag made its debut at the 1920 games in Antwerp, Belgium. It was here that the rings became the official Olympic symbol.\n\n The Olympic flag measures 2.06 m long, 60 cm high and is completely white with five circles in the center. The top three circles, from left to right, are blue, black and red. The bottom two circles, from left to right, are yellow and green. The white background symbolizes peace and truth. The five rings represent the five continents of the world, but a prevalent post-facto interpretation has tied specific colors to specific continents:\nOlympic Flag\n\n• Blue representing Europe\n• Black representing Africa\n• Red representing America\n• Yellow representing Asia\n• Green representing Australia (Oceania):-)
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just an example:\nhttp://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/wat_m5.htm
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Yes, the 5 Olympic rings represent the 5 continents. This is based on 5 continents model.\n\n"The 7-continent model is usually taught in Western Europe, China, and most native English-speaking countries. The 6-continent combined-America model is taught in Latin America. The 6-continent combined-Eurasia model is preferred by the geographic community, Russia, Eastern Europe, and Japan. In all of these cases, the names Australasia or Oceania may be used in place of Australia; in Canada, the government-approved Atlas of Canada names 7 continents and indicates Oceania instead.\n\nHistorians may use the 5-continent model in which North Africa is separated from Sub-Saharan Africa and included in Eurasia (Jared Diamond) or the 4-continent Afro-Eurasian (Andre Gunder Frank)."
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The 5 rings were introduced at the the 1920 games in antwerp games. The rings included at least one color from the flag of every participating country.
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The symbols of coils, spirals or a serpent with divine healing powers is often used to explain the ki. A great modern example is the cadacus, a staff with wings and two coiled serpants spiraling up around it. It is the symbol of the medical profession in the western world.  It represents the Life Force, and comes from Eastern religion.
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The 7th Chakra is the crown chakra which is you're connection to Divinity and the Divine.  It rules you're metaphysical space and existance.  To be connected to another at the 7th Chakra represents a connection on far more than a physical, sexual, or emotional level.\n\nIt stands for a spiritual connection.  Soul mates, whether friends or lovers, are connected on the 7th chakra.  It represents understanding in the other that most people will never truly have or grasp.
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I can't phrase it better than Wikipedia:\n\n"The name ring is an atavism from when contests were fought in a roughly drawn circle on the ground, the name ring continued with the Jack Broughton rules (1743) specifying a small circle in the centre of the fight area where the boxers met at the start of each round. The first square ring was introduced by the Pugilistic Society in 1838, the ring was specified as 24 feet square and bound by two ropes."
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It is Meibukan and the lineage is from Meitoku Yagi. Here is a link to some information about it.
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That's small potatoes lol.  King Solomon had 1000 wives and 2000 concubimbos.  He is revered for his wisdom.
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it symbolizes wearing a ring on your thumb.... why make it something more than what it is.... I have never heard of it meaning anything.
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The name ring is an atavism from when contests were fought in a roughly drawn circle on the ground, the name ring continued with the Jack Broughton rules (1743) specifying a small circle in the centre of the fight area where the boxers met at the start of each round. The first square ring was introduced by the Pugilistic Society in 1838, the ring was specified as 24 feet square and bound by two ropes.
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1. It means that I'm seperate, but have some connection. I won't eat with them, but I can learn from the greater America.\n\n2. Torah several hours a day, Mitzvos whenever circumstances require, different look on life.\n\n3. A lot of great schools of learning and their products are lost. Also, many family members move to Israel, and they are paying for my plane ticket for an international contest, so I'm studying 20 hours a week for it.\n\n4. Not really\n\n5. Ask an Orthodox Rabbi
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5 rings on the olympic flag