A   WARRIOR’S CREED

I HAVE NO PARENTS -- I make the heavens and earth my parents.

I HAVE NO HOME -- I make awareness my home.

I HAVE NO LIFE OR DEATH -- I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

I HAVE NO DIVINE POWER -- I make honesty my divine power.

I HAVE NO MEANS -- I make understanding my means.

I HAVE NO MAGIC SECRETS -- I make character my magic secret.

I HAVE NO BODY -- I make endurance my body.

I HAVE NO EYES -- I make the flash of lightning my eyes.

I HAVE NO EARS -- I make sensibility my ears.

I HAVE NO LIMBS -- I make promptness my limbs.

I HAVE NO STRATEGY -- I make “unshadowed by thought” my strategy.

I HAVE NO DESIGNS -- I make “seizing opportunity by the forelock” my design.

I HAVE NO MIRACLES -- I make right-action my miracles.

I HAVE NO PRINCIPLES -- I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.

I HAVE NO TACTICS -- I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.

I HAVE NO TALENTS -- I make ready wit my talent.

I HAVE NO FRIENDS -- I make my mind my friend.

I HAVE NO ENEMY -- I make carelessness my enemy.

I HAVE NO ARMOR -- I make benevolence and honesty my armor.

I HAVE NO CASTLE -- I make immovable-mind my castle.

I HAVE NO SWORD -- I make absence of self my sword.

                                        --Anonymous Samurai, fourteenth century

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