Musashi's Five Rings & Related Works Assessed and Applied to Gunfighting

Hopefully this book will save other struggling students from useless excursions, straying from the path. Hopefully it will guide other struggling students toward Musashi's Way of Strategy--the true way of all things. Table of ContentsChapter Page 1 Cold Steel 7 Young Musashi's first kill. 2 Grasping the Man and his Work 9 Minor impediments, major obstacles. 3 21 Different Translations of The Five Rings 11 Many versions--some are even worth reading. 4 Musashi's Five...
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Hopefully this book will save other struggling students from useless excursions, straying from the path. Hopefully it will guide other struggling students toward Musashi's Way of Strategy--the true way of all things. Table of ContentsChapter Page 1 Cold Steel 7 Young Musashi's first kill. 2 Grasping the Man and his Work 9 Minor impediments, major obstacles. 3 21 Different Translations of The Five Rings 11 Many versions--some are even worth reading. 4 Musashi's Five Other Texts 35 Short versions on swordsmanship and his 21 rules for life. 5 Three Musashi Biographies 39 To understand the work, understand the man. 6 A Samurai History 45 To understand the man, understand the era. 7 Two Companion Books 47 Modern minds seek his warrior wisdom. 8 Four Related Books from Musashi's Era 49 Samurai fighting and conduct. 9 Four Modern Versions of the Zen Mind 55 The Zen Mind acquired without any Zen.10 Two Modern Contrasting Versions of the Mind 59 Is Modern Mental Management merely Zen re-scripted?11 The Empty Mind for Gunfighters 61 The empty mind pays no attention to the interfering mind.12 Applying The Five Rings to Gunfighting 63 Musashi's highly hypothetical 21st Century Gunfight.13 Musashi's Training Tips for Gunfighters 69 Moving beyond the mechanical.14 Excursion into Mysticism 75 Emptiness, the Heart Sutra, Quantum Entanglement: Reality 101.15 The Way of Strategy is the Way of All Things 79 Mindfulness is the universal foundation of all ways.