Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

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

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.