There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.

Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.

All abilities come from one mind

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.