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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead
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More Quotes by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.
There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
