Never depart from the way of martial arts.
The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men
If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.
It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.
Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. Thus he passes through life.
Never stray from the Way.
The way is in training.
If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.
Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.
When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.
The Way is in training... Do nothing which is not of value.
Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.
Accept everything just the way it is.
The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.
Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.
Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things