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Second part of a full summary of Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings. I read the book 20 times and broke down and explained every major point I could see in plain English. Interspersed with quotations to back them up.
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Intro 0:00
Rhythm - 0:02
All Things Are Infectious - 6:39
Initiative - 11:16
Becoming Your Enemy - 19:21
Adaptability & Starting Anew - 22:22
Expect Treacherous Positions - 25:03
Detachment from All Things - 25:58
Resolute Acceptance of Death - 27:29
Lifting the Clouds of Confusion - 29:38
End Notes - 32:32
Other Musashi Books - 33:45
The Dokkōdō - 36:04
the Musashi Legend - 37:53
Sasaki Kojirō - 40:35
Closing Thoughts - 41:25
#musashi #bookoffiverings #miyamotomusashi #bushido #samurai
Second part of a full summary of Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings. I read the book 20 times and broke down and explained every major point I could see in plain English. Interspersed with quotations to back them up.
Links:
📖Complete Musashi (best translation): geni.us/CompleteMusashi
📚PDF: bit.ly/FiveRingsSummary
📺Part 1: youtu.be/gI-SDFuuuRk
Kindle: Coming maybe...
Audiobook: Coming maybe...
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Intro 0:00
Rhythm - 0:02
All Things Are Infectious - 6:39
Initiative - 11:16
Becoming Your Enemy - 19:21
Adaptability & Starting Anew - 22:22
Expect Treacherous Positions - 25:03
Detachment from All Things - 25:58
Resolute Acceptance of Death - 27:29
Lifting the Clouds of Confusion - 29:38
End Notes - 32:32
Other Musashi Books - 33:45
The Dokkōdō - 36:04
the Musashi Legend - 37:53
Sasaki Kojirō - 40:35
Closing Thoughts - 41:25
#musashi #bookoffiverings #miyamotomusashi #bushido #samurai










![Seneca - Moral Letters - 82: On the Natural Fear of Death
This is my own recording of a public domain text. It is not copied and I retain the copyright.
The Moral Letter to Lucilius are a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years. (These Moral Letters are the same letters which Tim Ferriss promotes in the Tao of Seneca)
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Translated by Richard Mott Gummere: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/
Notes:
“For the soul is made womanish by degrees, and is weakened until it matches the ease and laziness in which it lies”
“Both extremes are to be deprecated – both tension and sluggishness.”
“Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man.”
“Fortune [can] seize none except him that clings to her.”
“nothing glorious can result from unwillingness and cowardice; virtue does nothing under compulsion.”
“You cannot still braver go, if you are persuaded that those things are the real evils. Root out this idea from your soul; otherwise your apprehensions will remain undecided and will thus check the impulse to action”
“Away, I say, with all that sort of thing, which makes a man feel, when a question is propounded to him, that he is hemmed in, and forces him to admit a premiss, and then makes him say one thing in his answer when his real opinion is another”
“Away, I say, with all that sort of thing, which makes a man feel, when a question is propounded to him, that he is hemmed in, and forces him to admit a premiss, and then makes him say one thing in his answer when his real opinion is another”
“certain arguments are rendered useless and unavailing by their very subtlety”
#stoicism #seneca #LettersFromaStoic #moralletterstolucilius Seneca - Moral Letters - 82: On the Natural Fear of Death](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CN-we_ib1-c/mqdefault.jpg)