Essays and Thoughts on The Dokkodo Part Fifteen Do Not Hold Onto Possessions You No Longer Need By this point in our commentary on The Dokkodo , you know the drill. There is always something more to Musashi's work than at first glance. Even for native readers in Japan, Musashi can seem paradoxical, quizzical in something akin to how a Zen koan might take a period of time to wrap one's thoughts around the nature of what is being read. But this is even more so for those of us reading an imprecise English translation. Once you couple this with the fact that Musashi seems so ancient to our time and day, hopefully you begin to see how one can't just dismiss Musashi as being outdated, or how you must not be so quick to translate Musashi into a meaning that you want his words to have. That might make it more comfortable for us, but it's not going to bring about the changes that Musashi prescribes for us as modern martial artists. Let's look at a couple of differen
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