Kyuma - Naked with Arms Wide Open ... a philosophy of life

There are so many layers to this series and this episode really rammed that home for me. There is a masterfully crafted metaphysical thread woven through all the blood and guts and mayhem and fight for survival ... and Kyuma's story epitomises this in both words and deeds.

At first I just wallowed around in great joy at the visual beauty of Kyuma's glorious nude body ... but as the episodes progressed, I thought WOW, Kyuma really is an interesting character ... there is a profound 'presence' to him ... his nudity became more than just a visual feast it morphed into something that was very symbolic ... symbolic of his abandonment of all the BS that we habitually and many times desperately cover ourselves with in our real lives. Kyuma powerfully exudes this wonderful sense of 'abandonment' ... his mind and body are unfettered by mind-made chains ... he is so deeply connected with the essence of life and death ... so rooted in the 'real' reality of being alive ... WOW ... such a powerful beauty of being ... no anger or bitterness or despair or hatred ... no illusion ... just an amazing sense of purity of his own kind of 'being' ... ? there are some powerful life lessons there. His last words to Arisu are, to me, profound and aspirational:

"I hope you figure that out. How to live by your own rules. Your life is yours. Don't follow someone else's path ....
So this is the end. I had a great life. I lived it without a single regret. And I know that I'm ready to die."

At the end of this episode ... Kyuma's philosophy of life comes full circle ... surrounded by the 'products' of a ravenous consumer society ... so long lost in the savagery of its own mind-made delusions of 'value' and 'purpose' ... there is Kyuma standing on a pylon ... out in the open ... naked ... arms out wide ... face to the sky ... the most sublime look of peace and contentment on his beautiful face ... he is free ... unfettered ... pure ... WOW ...

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