Essays and Thoughts on The Dokkodo Part Thirteen Be Indifferent to Where You Live Ronin at dusk Compared to some of the more philosophical musings in The Dokkodo , this one just seems as if its straightforward stoic advice. But is it? Could there actually be more to this maxim than what is on the surface? I think the answer is yes... and no. Many musings in The Dokkodo - this one, and the others of a similar bent - or much of the advice given in The Book of Five Rings is meant to be philosophical, while, at the same time and without distracting from the philosophical aspect of it, are also supposed to be straightforward. You "practice" this maxim by doing exactly what Musashi says to do. When you do this, the living philosophy of it begins to make itself known to you. And everything appears to take on the appearance of what the Buddhists call "One Taste." Your life - your actions and your thoughts, and all that flows forth from these - becomes of one
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