Miyamoto Musashi Quotes

"To renew" applies when we are fighting with the enemy, and an entangled spirit arises where there is no possible resolution. We must abandon our efforts, think of the situation in a fresh spirit then win in the new rhythm. To renew, when we are deadlocked with the enemy, means that without changing our circumstance we change our spirit and win through a different technique.

The essential is to think that anything you are doing has to become the occasion for slashing. You must examine this well.

The way to do battle is the same whether it is a battle between one individual and another or a battle between one army and another. You should observe reflectively, with overall awareness of the large picture as well as precise attention to small details.

Everything can collapse. Houses, bodies, and enemies collapse when their rhythm becomes deranged. In large-scale strategy, when the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without letting the chance go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.

What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is not included in man's knowledge. With your spirit settled, accumulate practice day by day, and hour by hour. Polish the twofold spirit heart and mind, and sharpen the twofold gaze perception and sight. When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.Until you realise the true Way, whether in life or in common sense, you may think that things are correct and in order. However, if we look at things objectively, from the viewpoint of laws of the world, we see various doctrines departing from the true Way. Know well this spirit, and with forthrightness as the foundation and the true spirit as the Way. Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly. Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void. In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existance, principle has existance, the Way has existance, spirit is nothingness.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.

In this the Fire Book of the NiTo Ichi school of strategy I describe fighting as fire.

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others.

In strategy it is necessary to treat training as part of normal life with your spirit unchanging.

samurai y bushi. La palabra samurai procede del verbo japonés saburau, que significa «servir como ayudante». La palabra bushi es una palabra chinojaponesa que significa «pequeña aristocracia armada

What is big is easy to perceive: what is small is difficult to perceive. In short, it is difficult for large numbers of men to change position, so their movements can be easily predicted. An individual can easily change his mind, so his movements are difficult to predict.

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

... fixation and binding are to be avoided, in both the sword and the hand. Fixation is the way to death, fluidity is the way to life.

From one thing, know ten thousand things.