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54 lines
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CREED OF A SPIRITUAL WARRIOR
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By an anonymous Samurai, fourteenth century
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I have no parents: I make the heavens and earth my parents.
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I have no home: I make awareness my home.
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I have no life or death: I make the tides of breathing my
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life and death.
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I have no divine power: I make honesty my divine power.
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I have no means: I make understanding my means.
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I have no magic secrets: I make character my magic secret.
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I have no body: I make endurance my body.
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I have no eyes: I make the flash of lightning my eyes.
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I have no ears: I make sensibility my ears.
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I have no limbs: I make promptness my limbs.
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I have no strategy: I make "unshadowed by thought" my strategy.
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I have no designs: I make "seizing opportunity by the forelock"
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my design.
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I have no miracles: I make right-action my miracles.
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I have no principles: I make adaptability to all circumstances my
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principles.
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I have no tactics: I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
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I have no talents: I make ready wit my talent.
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I have no friends: I make my mind my friend.
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I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy.
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I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.
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I have no castle: I make immovable-mind my castle.
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I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.
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