A Warriors Creed.

[bowmore]

A WARRIORS CREED




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 my breath, 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 - I make character my magic.

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 thougtht my strategy.

I have no design - I make seizing opportunity my design.

I have no miracles - i make my right action my miracles.

I have no principles - I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.

I have no tactics - I make emptiness my tactics.

I have no talent - I make my 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 armour - I make benevolence and righteousness my armour.

I have no sword - I make absence of self my sword.

I have no castle - I make my immovable mind my castle.

-anonymous, c 14th century Japan.

selah.


edit for the credit.
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That amber liquor that not woman, not children but only hunters drank.

[This message has been edited by bowmore (edited 02-01-2001).]

[Pianomahnn]

Nice.

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I live on freedom. So should you.

Freedom Lives Within (http://www.pianomahnn.com)

[Horgasm]

That's pretty deep. I'm not sure what to make of it. It sound like a courageous, quick-witted, wise, but very lonely soul.. .

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About time to DRINK SOME
BURKINA FASO.. .

[bowmore]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by RogueWarrior:
Try reading the Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. be very careful which translation you get...there's one by a General something or other that's the best...but I have it boxed up at home pending my move, so I can't remember or look it up right now.

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An excellent book for anyone looking to wade deeper into the martial arts and thier history and spirtuality than your local dojo will probably go.

Unfortuantly it has become yet another "manual for business ethics" like the Art of War. Shit, Even Richard Marchinko is pimping business consultations these days.

I have an edition by Victor Harris and quite like it.



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That amber liquor that not woman, not children but only hunters drank.

[Rabble Rouser]

Wise words to live by.

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"You did it, Nibbles! Now, nibble through my ball sack!" - Principal Skinner

[Lightbulb]

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I am the first and the last.
I am the honoured one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter...
... I am she whose wedding is great
And I have not taken a husband...
... I am knowledge and ignorance...

THUNDER - PERFECT MIND
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Gnostic poem, first recorded around 100AD but believed composed many centuries earlier.

Narrated by a divine, female reader.

Whole deciphered poem here (http://www0.delphi.com/theol/thunder.html) .