1. Know the wisdom of being patient during times of inactivity.
2. Choose the course of justice as the path of your life.
3. Do not allow your heart to be controlled by the demands of desire, pleasure, or dependence.
4. Sorrow, pain, and resentment are natural qualities to be found in life; therefore, work to cultivate an immovable spirit.
5. Hold in your heart the importance of respect for your seniors, and pursue the literary and martial arts with balanced determination.
Shinryu Masamitsu Toda,
32nd Grandmaster of Togakure Ryu Ninjutsu,
New Years message of 1891
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:32 am
3. Do not allow your heart to be controlled by the demands of desire, pleasure, or dependence.
Isn’t life a lot less colourful that way? Perhaps the seeking of an immovable spirit is in itself a desire or a pleasure to be obtained.