There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased.

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy

The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.