Miyamoto Musashi - Go Rin No Sho: A Book Of Five Rings (Outline Of The Five Books Of This Book Of Strategy) [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

The Way is shown as five books concerning different aspects. These are Ground, Water, Fire, Wind
(tradition), and Void
The body of the Way of strategy from the viewpoint of my Ichi school is explained in the Ground Book. 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. As if it were a straight road mapped out on the ground, the first
Book is called the Ground Book
Second is the Water book. With water as the basis, the spirit becomes like water. Water adopts the shape of
Its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea. Water has a clear blue color. By the clarity
Things of Ichi school are shown in this book
If you master the principles of sword−fencing, when you freely beat one man, you beat any man in the world
The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big
Things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model. I cannot write in detail how this is done. The
Principle of strategy is having one thing, to know ten thousand things. Things of Ichi school are written in
This the Water book
Third is the Fire book. This book is about fighting. 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. You must appreciate that spirit can become big or small. What is big is easy to perceive: what is small
Is difficult to perceive. In short, it is difficult for large numbers of men to change position, so their
Movements can easily be predicted. An individual can easily change his mind, so his movements are difficult
To predict. You must appreciate this. The essence of this book is that you must train day and night in order to
Make quick decisions. In strategy it is necessary to treat training as a part of normal life with your spirit
Unchanging. Thus combat in battle is described in the Fire book
Fourthly the Wind book. This book is not concerned with my Ichi school but with other schools of strategy
By Wind I mean old traditions, present−day traditions, and family traditions of strategy. Thus I clearly
Explain the strategies of the world. This is tradition. It is difficult to know yourself if you do not know others
To all Ways there are side−tracks. If you study a Way daily, and your spirit diverges, you may think you are
Obeying a good Way but objectively is not the true Way. If you are following the true Way and diverge a
Little, this will later become a large divergence. You must realize this. Other strategies have come to be
Thought of as mere sword−fencing, and it is not unreasonable that this should be so. The benefit of my
Strategy, although it includes sword−fencing, lies in a separate principle. I have explained what is commonly
Meant by strategy in other schools in the Tradition (Wind) book
Fifthly, the book of the Void. By Void I mean that which has no beginning and no end. Attaining this
Principle means not attaining the principle. The Way of strategy is the Way of nature. When you appreciate
The power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and
Strike naturally. All this is the Way of the Void. I intend to show how to follow the true Way according to
Nature in the book of the Void