From Threads: Roan Am Davis
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When you think of a lone samurai, you're thinking of Miyamoto Musashi:
• Raised under the bushido code of honour
• Fought and won 60 duels throughout his life
• Traveled Japan as a rōnin (a samurai without a lord)
In old age, he retreated in seclusion to a cave called Reigandō (“Spirit Rock Cave”).
Here he wrote the Dokkōdō (“The Way of Walking Alone”). A scroll of 21 principles for the pursuit of life mastery.
Here's the life philosophy of one of the greatest warriors in history...
Principle 1: Accept everything just the way it is
• Reality is reality
• No matter how much we want it to be different, it isn't
• The only way you can change reality is by accepting it completely.
Then work from there.
Principle 2: Do not seek pleasure for its own sake
• The path of mastery is down the opposite road of pleasure
• We should align our lives with achieving great feats and discipline
• If we experience pleasure along the way, that's fine, but don't make it the aim.
Principle 3: Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling
• Life requires you to make serious decisions
• The implication of them can ripple throughout your life, and others
• When faced with a choice, get clear on it, do not go off emotions or feelings.
Principle 4: Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world
• Taking yourself too seriously hardens the Ego
• Everything becomes life or death, and you get in your own way
• The world is beautiful place for of depth – put your energy into appreciating it.
Principle 5: Be detached from desire your whole life long
• Desire pulls us towards pleasure seeking
• Pleasure seeking leads us towards greed, lust, and laziness
• The road to mastery is guided by discipline and a sense of purpose
Follow mastery.
Principle 6: Do not regret what you have done
• Regret serves no purpose
• If you've learned the lesson, punishing yourself is worthless
• Do not let the pass taint the present, or it will continue to corrupt the future.
Principle 7: Never be jealous
• Jealousy is stupid
• You don't know what that person has gone through, or will go through
• You can't take aspects of someone's life in isolation and feel sorry for yourself
You're on a different road.
Principle 8: Never let yourself be saddened by a separation
• Friends come and go
• People live and die
• That's life
Just be thankful for the opportunity to meet the incredible people you have.
Principle 9: Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others
• Life is hard
• Challenges present themselves, and must be overcome
• Complaining about how things are, or carrying resentment for how things have gone, is useless
They only serve to poison the mind, and hinder your progress.
Principle 10: Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling lust or love
• Both are fleeting
• You lust for someone one day, the next you don't
• You love someone for a few years, the next you don't
Be guided by the greater.
Principle 11: In all things, have no preference
• Wine connoisseurs strike us as cringy for reason
• To obsess over nuances of something unimportant is silly
• Save your time for the subtleties of whatever skill or philosophy you are learning.
Principle 12: Be indifferent to where you live
• You can live in luxury or poverty
• The only thing that matters is whether you are following your true path or not
• You can live with material wealth, and truly have nothing, or you can live with nothing, and have everything.
Principle 13: Do not pursue the taste of good food
• The body is made of the biomass you consume
• If you eat poor quality food, you're body will be made of poor quality material
• Concentrate more on nutritional value than taste, your body will thank you for it.
Principle 14: Do not hold onto possession you no longer need
• Have you ever seen a hoarder's house?
• Why do people cling to objects with no tangible purpose?
• Because we become attached, and lack the willpower to free ourselves of it
Live like a minimalist, clear your home, clear your mind.
Principle 15: Do not act following customary beliefs
• There's a conventional and societally accepted way of doing anything
• You shouldn't go against this for the sake of going against it
• But you should always be thinking for yourself.
Most people don’t.
From Roam Davis.
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