You can only fight the way you practice

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

The Way is in training... Do nothing which is not of value.

When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.

As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.

You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.

The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win