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

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.

Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. If a gentleman dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.