Avenues to Success for 01/07/09

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm.  Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased...An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit. 
     - Miyamoto Musashi, 1584-1645, Japanese swordsman

Miyamoto Musashi in his prime, wielding two bokken.

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Biography - The Samurai Archives Japanese History Page

The famed swordsman Miyamoto Musashi was born Shinmen Takezo in Harima Province and may have fought at Sekigahara under the Ukita as a common soldier. ...

A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by Miyamoto Musashi

Exert from the INTRODUCTION:

...When I reached thirty I looked back on my past. The previous victories were not due to my having mastered strategy. Perhaps it was natural ability, or the order of heaven, or that other schools' strategy was inferior. After that I studied morning and evening searching for the principle, and came to realise the Way of strategy when I was fifty. ...

Book Review: Miyamoto Musashi - His Life and Writings by Arthor: Kenji Tokitsu

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