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There are various kinds of spirit involved in letting go the hilt.
There is the spirit of winning without a sword. There is also the spirit of holding the long sword but not
winning. The various methods cannot be expressed in writing. You must train well.
THE BODY OF A ROCK
When you have mastered the Way of strategy you can suddenly make your body like a rock, and ten thousand
things cannot touch you. This is the body of a rock.
You will not be moved. Oral tradition.
What is recorded above is what has been constantly on my mind about Ichi school sword fencing, written
down as it came to me. This is the first time I have written about my technique, and the order of things is a bit
confused. It is difficult to express it clearly.
This book is a spiritual guide for the man who wishes to learn the Way.
My heart has been inclined to the Way of strategy from my youth onwards. I have devoted myself to training
my hand, tempering my body, and attaining the many spiritual attitudes of sword fencing. If we watch men of
other schools discussing theory, and concentrating on techniques with the hands, even though they seem
skilful to watch, they have not the slightest true spirit.
Of course, men who study in this way think they are training the body and spirit, but it is an obstacle to the
true Way, and its bad influence remains for ever. Thus the true Way of strategy is becoming decadent and
dying out.
The true Way of sword fencing is the craft of defeating the enemy in a fight, and nothing other than this. If
you attain and adhere to the wisdom of my strategy, you need never doubt that you will win.
The second year of Shoho, the fifth month, the twelfth day (1645).
Teruo Magonojo
SHINMEN MUSASHI
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