If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
Miyamoto MusashiRead
A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that true clarity comes from a state of mental emptiness, allowing a warrior to focus without distraction.
Miyamoto Musashi emphasizes the importance of mental clarity and focus in achieving one's goals. A warrior, devoid of confusion, embodies a state of 'true emptiness' where distractions and uncertainties do not cloud judgment. Such clarity enables decisive action and effectiveness in both battle and life, suggesting that mental focus is essential for achieving success and mastery.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming distractions to achieve goals.
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.
One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.
To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy.
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.
Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
"Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
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