Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.
Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Do not let your opponent see your spirit.
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.
The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.
This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.
True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce.
If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.
Also by training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be able to beat ten men with your spirit. When you have reached this point, will it not mean that you are invincible?
All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
Know your enemy, know his sword.
To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy.
When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.
You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.
Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment...