Bad Role Models #5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void

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The best version of Musashi in English that I have found is the book The Complete Musashi translated by Alexander Bennett, which is available in audiobook form and is quite short and scholarly to boot. Goodreads link.

Books and Movies:

Silence, Martin Scorsese

Pi, Darren Aronofsky

Introduction to Zen Buddhism - D. T. Suzuki

Links:

Eleusinian Mysteries

Ergotamine (LSD)

Sekiro (From Software Game)

Music Credit (Drums, Intro/Outro) by RelaxMusicPro on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/M3cJs_m351A

Edit: removed the part where Shogun Richard and I discussed the YouTube parody AI Am a Jedi, which you should look up just in case:

https://youtu.be/v6So-4uvruU