The Ground Book: Part I

Earth (chi/ji) by Nao of japanesecalligrapher.com

In the hopes of encouraging you to read The Book of Five Rings yourself, I'm omitting the metaphor of the carpenter and Musashi's outline of the other books. Today we'll look at his Ichi (One/First) school Way of Strategy.

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The Ground Book: Introduction

 Earth (chi/ji) by Nao of japanesecalligrapher.com

From The Book of Five Rings:

"It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things. As if it were a straight road mapped on the ground, the first book is called the Ground Book."

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Incoming.

You can see three books in the left sidebar. It is my (un)professional opinion that not enough people have read these three books. Thanks to Michael Douglas and Spike Lee, The Art of War is at least known outside historians', meditative, and military circles. But The Book of Five Rings, The Unfettered Mind, and really, still, The Art of War are not used enough as tools for the LSAT and life.

So beginning this week, you'll see a small selection from one of these books or a quote from one of these authors. The post will be a brief rumination on its applicability to life, the LSAT, and everything.

We'll begin with this guy:

Yup. His name's Miyamoto Musashi, and he's gonna learn you the LSAT.