Never stray from the Way.

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.

If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.

As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.