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From olden times it has been said: "Great and small go together." So do not unconditionally dislike extra-long swords. What I dislike is the inclination towards the long sword.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
Strategy is the craft of the warrior.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
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. You must research this well.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
If you learn "indoor" techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
To attain the Way of strategy as a warrior you must study fully other martial arts and not deviate even a little from the Way of the warrior.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
What is meant by 'mingling' is the spirit of advancing and becoming engaged with the enemy, and not withdrawing even one step. You must understand this.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
When I reached thirty I looked back on my past.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
Without the correct principle the fight cannot be won.
The spirit of my school is to win through the wisdom of strategy, paying no attention to trifles. Study this well.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent. Train diligently to attain this spirit.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
In large-scale strategy, it is beneficial to strike at the corners of the enemy's force, If the corners are overthrown, the spirit of the whole body will be overthrown.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
Language does not extend to explaining the Way in detail, but it can be grasped intuitively. Study this book; read a word then ponder on it. If you interpret the meaning loosely you will mistake the Way.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
The gaze should be large and broad.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
The spirit of fire is fierce, whether the fire be small or big; and so it is with battles. The Way of battles is the same for man to man fights and for ten thousand a side battles.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
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 a third time.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
The Ni To Ichi Way of strategy is recorded in this the Book of the Void.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
In my strategy, the training for killing enemies is by way of many contests, fighting for survival, discovering the meaning of life and death, learning the Way of the sword, judging the strength of attacks and understanding the Way of the "edge and ridge" of the sword.
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
Accept everything just the way it is.