Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi, also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was an expert Japanese swordsman and rōnin. Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through stories of his excellent and unique double bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 60 duels. He was the founder of the Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū or Niten-ryū style of swordsmanship and in his final years authored The Book of Five Rings, a book on strategy, tactics, and...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionSoldier
CountryJapan
Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.
The Way is in training... Do nothing which is not of value.
Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.
To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy
Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.
As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.
Too much is the same as not enough.
from one thing, know ten thousand things
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.
...most warriors only perform tricks. The way of the warrior is filled with soul and feeling
All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.