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The essence of focus

The essence of focus

The moment of combat requires only one thing that is to cut the enemy, thus the warrior must in this moment think only of cutting the enemy. That must be one's sole focus. Do not needlessly fret about all the details in doing a thing, focus only on the single goal. All actions in all other moment must be in pursuit of perfecting the art of achieving this single goal. All ways in the end have only one goal, one must know it, understand it and perfect it.

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The book of the five rings is a manuscript about war, strategy and sword fighting written by miyamoto mushashi. It mostly deals with sword fighting but beneath that there is a strong structure for mastery and for life. Below you'll find an attempt to distill the philosophy of the way as elaborated by mushashi.

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