"Musashi - 5 Rings" - читать интересную книгу автора (Musashi Miyamoto)

When I reached thirty I looked back on my past. The previous victories were
not due to my having mastered strategy. Perhaps it was natural ability, or
the order of heaven, or that other schools' strategy was inferior. After
that I studied morning and evening searching for the principle, and came to
realise the Way of strategy when I was fifty.

Since then I have lived without following any particular Way. Thus with the
virtue of strategy I practise many arts and abilities - all things with no
teacher. To write this book I did not use the law of Buddha or the
teachings of Confucius, neither old war chronicles nor books on martial
tactics. I take up my brush to explain the true spirit of this Ichi school
as it is mirrored in the Way of heaven and Kwannon. The time is the night
of the tenth day of the tenth month, at the hour of the tiger (3-5 a.m.)
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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 strategy.

There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha,
the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a
doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, [a type of poem. - Slaegr] tea,
archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practises as he feels inclined.

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. Although
not only warriors but priests, women, peasants and lowlier folk have been
known to die readily in the cause of duty or out of shame, this is a
different thing. The warrior is different in that studying the Way of
strategy is based on overcoming men. By victory gained in crossing swords
with individuals, or enjoining battle with large numbers, we can attain
power and fame for ourselves or our lord. This is the virtue of strategy.

The Way of Strategy

In China and Japan practitioners of the Way have been known as "masters of
strategy". Warriors must learn this Way.

Recently there have been people getting on in the world as strategists, but
they are usually just sword-fencers. The attendants of the Kashima Kantori
shrines of the province Hitachi received instruction from the gods, and
made schools based on this teaching, travelling from country to country
instructing men. This is the recent meaning of strategy.

In olden times strategy was listed among the Ten Abilities and Seven Arts