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Richard2989
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03 Aug 2020, 5:09 pm

It's practiced by the Japanese.



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03 Aug 2020, 5:58 pm

Don't provide any clarification or definition about what this term means. Check this thread daily while receiving no replies whatsoever for at least a week. Then finally post a definition of gaman and await replies with no feelings of bitterness or resentment over having been ignored for a week. You will have demonstrated gaman with your ordeal.

Practise not creating a thread for every single related question you have, instead put them into one post. It will take a degree of perseverance to compose those thoughts and to wait until you have 'the entire collection' out and assembled well enough to post, but it will both demonstrate and develop this skill as well as make your posts get more attention, more thoughtful replies, etc.


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03 Aug 2020, 7:05 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
Don't provide any clarification or definition about what this term means...
Wikipedia is your friend!
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Gaman is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity".  The term is generally translated as "perseverance", "patience", or tolerance.  A related term, gamanzuyoi, a compound with tsuyoi (strong), means "suffering the unbearable" or having a high capacity for a kind of stoic endurance.

Gaman is variously described as a "virtue", an "ethos", a "trait", et cetera.  It means to do one's best in distressed times and to maintain self-control and discipline.

Gaman is a teaching of Zen Buddhism.


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03 Aug 2020, 7:38 pm

Fnord wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Don't provide any clarification or definition about what this term means...
Wikipedia is your friend!
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Gaman is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity".  The term is generally translated as "perseverance", "patience", or tolerance.  A related term, gamanzuyoi, a compound with tsuyoi (strong), means "suffering the unbearable" or having a high capacity for a kind of stoic endurance.

Gaman is variously described as a "virtue", an "ethos", a "trait", et cetera.  It means to do one's best in distressed times and to maintain self-control and discipline.

Gaman is a teaching of Zen Buddhism.


I understood what the term meant, as evidenced by my response. I was telling OP that not everyone will be familiar with the term and so he should include the definition as a courtesy.


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