Know your enemy, know his sword.

Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.

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.

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.

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.