Miyamoto Musashi

The Classic Guide to Strategy

Book of Five Rings

The Book of Five Rings

Alex Rainer

Fixation is the way to death, fluidity is the way to life.

I feel like I dug the first half of this as a martial arts and strategy nerd but the last half kind of dragged

Great insight into eastern and Buddhist philosophy 

Rhys Connor

Reminded me that despite the drastic differences from now and than some aspects of the human mind are still the same. Establishes a samurai thinking.

Written by one of the one of the greatest warriors in history, The Book of Five Rings is about the Way of Strategy, using certain techniques to take down the enemy. The Book of Five Rings is separated into five parts, representing Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and lastly Void.The principles, written over three and a half centuries ago, are still applicable to today. Musashi analyses the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. This book makes us prepared like a warrior to address all the challenges of life.

Keven Wang

This book can be use as reference to study the Japanese zen traditions

Safiya 

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Luke Kanies

One of my favorite books of all time, and applicable to a lot of life but primarily a boom about personal combat, and preferably physical.

Musashi Miyamoto

El libro de los cinco anillos

Jose Vera

Este es un tratado que, para ser provechoso, ha de ser leido una y otra vez.

Miyamoto Musashi es considerado como el más grande de los samurai. Nunca fue vencido y las experiencias de sus años como Ronin las plasmo en estos 5 anillos.

El primer punto importante a tener en cuenta es que en todo momento la actitud es combativa, agresiva y buscando la victoria; adaptandose al terreno, el clima, al propio enemigo.

Musashi no escribe un "manual para la Victoria"; lo que el presenta son las observaciones y recomendaciones que hace un maestro espadachín a sus seguidores.

Sin embargo hay que tener presente que estas recomendaciones, estos preceptos pueden ser usados en cualquier aspecto de nuestras vidas.

Es un libro que debería ser releido varias veces y, como dice Musashi, habria que meditar mucho sobre él y practicarlo una y otra vez.

Nguyen Huu

Das Buch der fünf Ringe

Erik Ackner

Ygor Medeiros de Morais

Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world, should need arise.

Book of Five Rings The Classic Guide to Strategy

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