It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.
Yamamoto TsunetomoLooking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
Yamamoto TsunetomoGo ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
Yamamoto TsunetomoThe person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
Yamamoto TsunetomoSincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of oneโs character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.
Yamamoto TsunetomoThere is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo