The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

Tether even a roasted chicken.

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

The way of the Samurai is found in death.