The Revolution is Within

I have no parents: I make the heavens and earth my parents.

I have no home: I make awareness my home.

I have no life or death: I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

I have no divine power: I make honesty my divine power.

I have no means: I make understanding my means.

I have no magic secrets: I make character my magic secret.

I have no body: I make endurance my body.

I have no eyes: I make the flash of lightening my eyes.

I have no limbs: I make promptness my limbs.

I have no ears: I make sensibility my ears.

I have no strategy: I make “un shadowed by thought” my strategy.

I have no designs: I make “seizing the opportunity by the forelock” my designs.

I have no miracles: I make right-action my miracle.

I have no principles: I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.

I have no tactics: I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.

I have no talents: I make ready wit my talent.

I have no friends: I make my mind my friend.

I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy.

I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.

I have no castle: I make immovable mind my castle.

I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.

- Anonymous 14th Century Samurai.

~ by revolutionwithin on December 6, 2009.

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