[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Stephen Kaufman's translation of the Japanese classic, The Book of Five Rings, by Sensei Miyamoto Musashi.

Good advice. The martial arts are movement meditation and training the mind first is essential to training the body.

My sage teacher once told me it is always the weaker man who threatens.

[starbase]

My sage teacher once told me it is always the weaker man who threatens.

Hmm, very insightful. A Buddhist teaching states "Learn this from the waters, the small brook prattles constantly, but the mighty river flows silently. Those things which are empty are noisy, while things which are full are quiet."