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4.5: Philosophy of the Martial Arts

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    26 Philosophy of the Martial Arts

    In this edition of this work, there are no translations available in the Public Domain for two works I would love to use, either “The Mysterious Record of Immovable Wisdom” by Takuan Soho, or “The Book of the Five Rings” by Musashi Miyamoto. If someone would like to translate one of these for this work and release it under a license I can use to distribute it freely, I would be much obliged. You can find both of them in the original Japanese online for free since the original work is in the public domain. I encourage the reader to seek out either of these two works (the former primarily, since it is a brilliant application of Zen Philosophy to the art of swordfighting).


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