Miyamoto Musashi Quotes

per guadagnarsi la vita ogni artigiano deve curare con attenzione la manutenzione dei propri attrezzi e saperli usare con la massima abilità.

Therefore, people will resent even an honest ruler if those close to the ruler bleed those far away and cause the innocent to suffer. — The Killing Sword —

You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well. You should not copy others, but use weapons which you can handle properly.

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the things itself but your estimate of it.

... 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.

hat can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

Men use equipment to sell their own selves.

Now, when those close to the ruler have all along been after their own interests, and not acting in consideration of the ruler, and therefore serve in such a way that the people resent the ruler, when the time comes, those close to the ruler will be the first to set upon him. — The Killing Sword —

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of Strategy is based on overcoming men. By victory gained in crossing swords with individuals, or enjoining battle with large numbers, we can attain power and fame for ourselves or our lord. This is the virtue of strategy.

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding. In the practice of every way of life and every kind of work, there is a state of mind called that of the deviant. Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path.

La sabiduría es existencia.
El principio es existencia.
El camino es existencia.
La mente es vacío.

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in

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

When in a fight to the death, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is against our principles to die with a weapon yet undrawn.