Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will be failure. Push it to a place where there can be success, and there will be success. But whether there is success or failure, if one entrusts himself to… — Takuan Soho Copy Share
“Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.” — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
“When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds… — Takuan Soho Copy Share
“If you would know a man’s good and evil points, you should know the underlings and retainers he loves and employs, and the friends… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat a step. The enemy does not see me. I do not see the enemy. Penetrating to a place where heaven and earth have not yet divided, where yin and yang have not yet… — Takuan Soho Copy Share
It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
