WARRIOR WISDOM: The Book of 5 Rings - Why Miyamoto Musashi Fought with a Wooden Sword, and the 21 Principles Written from his Deathbed
Acta Non Verba
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The Five Ways of Attack by Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee adopted these five ways of attack from another martial art that you may have heard of called fencing as in Olympic fencing as in using a sword. Musashi is talking trash on other schools here. He's basically saying this is what they do, this is what we do and this is why we are better. The last book of the five rings is much more abstract and nonspecific than the other four books. And we can see Musashi's writing of this is heavily influenced by Zen and Taoism.
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