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tokipin on Jan 8, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Miyamoto Musashi's Final Work

i don't think he meant it as "do nothing." rather, he meant something more like accepting the world as it is given to you, accepting the truth instead of rationalizing, etc

acceptance is a big part of moving on

this isn't just an idealist guess on my part. just from the little I've read from his "Book of Five Rings" it's clear he was a pragmatist. his style/philosophy was essentially "do the best thing in the given situation," not different in spirit from Bruce Lee's style

Prrometheus on Jan 8, 2009 [–]

>"i don't think he meant it as "do nothing."

But then again, a lot of eastern ascetics and mystics mean exactly that.

stcredzero on Jan 8, 2009 | [–]

Those are the mystics who didn't "get it." They were fooled into inaction by others who profited by being able to deal with the world as it was.

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