It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war. - Miyamoto Musashi

Así pues, la ciencia de las artes marciales implica la presencia del espíritu para actuar como el mar, cuando el enemigo es como una montaña, y actuar como una montaña, cuando el enemigo es como el mar. Esto exige una atenta reflexión.

In the strategy of my school, keep your body and mind straight and make your opponent go through contortions and twist about. The essence is to defeat him in the moment when, in his mind, he is pivoting and twisting. You should examine this well.

One-thousand days of training to forge, ten-thousand days of training to refine. But a [Kendo] bout is decided in a split second.