- I have no parents:
- I make the heavens and earth my parents.
- I have no home:
- I make awareness my home.
- I have no life or death:
- I make the tides of breathing my life and death.
- I have no divine power:
- I make honesty my divine power.
- I have no means:
- I make understanding my means
- I have no magic secrets:
- I make character my magic secret.
- I have no body:
- I make endurance my body.
- I have no eyes:
- I make the flash of lightning my eyes.
- I have no ears:
- I make sensibility my ears.
- I have no limbs:
- I make promptness my limbs.
- I have no strategy:
- I make "unshadowed by thought" my strategy.
- I have no designs:
- I make "seizing opportunity by the forelock" my design.
- I have no miracles:
- I make right action my miracles.
- I have no principles:
- I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle.
- I have no tactics:
- I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
- I have no talents:
- I make ready wit my talent.
- I have no friends:
- I make my mind my friend.
- I have no enemy:
- I make carelessness my enemy.
- I have no armor:
- I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.
- I have no castle:
- I make immovable mind my castle.
- I have no sword:
- I make absence of self my sword.
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A True Warrior
-By An Anonymous Samurai, 14th Century |
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