The 9 Fundamental Samurai Rules of Life
Miyamoto Musashi wrote on a scroll the most important rules to keep with you in any situation.
Samurais were the warrior class of Japan. With time the wars became less violent and frequent and this fighting class stopped focusing so much on the science of battling and started trying to figure out how to apply the lessons of the Art of War transmitted throughout many generations of samurai in the ordinary peaceful life.
If you master one art you art all others, this is why the samurai went through a transition in which the warriors put the sword aside to take a pencil to draw, practice calligraphy and write. Other samurai masters enjoy music, games, or other artistic endeavors.
Miyamoto Musashi is often regarded as the most famous samurai of Japan. He lived around the year 1600 and in 1643 he sat down to immortalize the instinctive knowledge he acquired around his years dueling other swordsmen and living a life dedicated to Martial Art. In what we call now the Book of Five Rings, Musashi details with a simple and direct style, his thoughts on the most important things that anyone should know when navigating life.
In the first pages of the Book of Five Rings, Musashi mentions the 9 most important rules anyone should know to learn his art…
