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About Me

Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside yourself. When you think you understand something you have made only the first approach to it. To further clarify your understanding, you must read and read again. Each time you read and practice a "thing" the "spirit of the thing in itself" will reveal more of itself to you. Study is a life-long undertaking. That is why it is said that "the warrior first understands being a warrior when he no longer concerns himself with being a warrior."
The carpenter has a master plan for a building. Similarly, My Way of strategy is a plan of campaign. In the same way that one man can beat ten men, a hundred men can beat a thousand. Further yet, a thousand men can beat ten thousand. In my strategy, one man is the same as ten thousand, thus it is the complete warrior's craft. You can win with a long weapon just as well as with a short weapon. To summarize; the Way of my school is the spirit of winning, with any weapon of any size and in any situation whatsoever.

My Interests

The Way of the Warrior, Calligraphy, Painting, Gina Norris and other things.

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Since the wars of swords have ended, the wars of words seem to be an acceptable medium for the dividing mind.

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My Blog

Musashi vs. Chuck part 2

Musashi can cut Neil Diamond with Lou Diamond Phillips.Every time Musashi says "I do not believe in faries," God kills a Chuck Norris fan.When Musashi died in 1645, God locked himself in the bathroom ...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:25:00 PST

Musashi vs. Chuck part 1

Send Musashi your "Facts" to help stop the Chuck Norris stupidity.Together, we can.Miyamoto Musashi doesn't mow his lawn. When the grass sees him coming, it cuts itself down. If you only have 5 dolla...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:59:00 PST

Book of Five Rings: 5

The Mountain-Sea Change The "mountain-sea" spirit means that it is bad to repeat the same thing several times when fighting the enemy. There may be no help but to do something twice, but do not try it...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:44:00 PST

Book of Five Rings: 4

There are Many Enemies "There are many enemies" applies when you are fighting one against many. Draw both sword and companion sword and assume a wide-stretched left and right attitude. The spirit is t...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:43:00 PST

Book of Five Rings: 3

The Five Approaches The first approach is the Middle attitude. Confront the enemy with the point of your sword against his face. When he attacks, dash his sword to the right and "ride" it. Or, when th...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:39:00 PST

Book of Five Rings: 2

Timing in strategy There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice. Timing is important in dancing and pipe or string music, for they are in rhyth...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:36:00 PST

Book of Five Rings: 1

The Ground Book Strategy is the craft of the warrior. Commanders must enact the craft, and troopers should know this Way. There is no warrior in the world today who really understands the Way of strat...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:35:00 PST

Book of Five Rings: Introduction

I have been many years training in the Way of strategy, called Ni Ten Ichi Ryu, and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time. It is now during the first ten days of the tenth month ...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:32:00 PST

Concerning My Life

Shinmen Musashi No Kami Fujiwara No Genshin, or as he is commonly known Miyamoto Musashi, was born in the village called Miyamoto in the province Mimasaka in 1584. "Musashi" is the name of an area sou...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:31:00 PST

Kendo and Zen

Traditionally, the fencing halls of Japan, called Dojo, were associated with shrines and temples, but during Musashi's lifetime numerous schools sprang up in the new castle towns. Each daimyo or lord ...
Posted by Miyamoto Musashi on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:28:00 PST