Do Nothing At All That Is Of No Use.
(Miyamoto Musashi)
Do - To do. To complete. To complete finish complete. To help with exert. Is the cause of.
Nothing - No factor nothing naught. No part, share, or trace.
Use - Service or advantage in or working. Help profit resulting good.
An Intro
This meditation may be the latest meditation from the concept discussed inside a book referred to as the book of five rings , through the Japanese samurai master, Miyamoto Musashi.
A Book Of Five Rings, is recognized as a vintage on military strategy, inside a manner much like that of Sun Tzu's Art Of War. Because the Art of War is recognized as a vintage that individuals still evaluate and discuss two 1000 years later, I believed we ought to check out some of exactly the same concepts, but from the Japanese perspective.
While A Book Of Five Rings is really a military text, it's training does apply as fast to non-military contexts. This is exactly why this book continues to be helpful today, greater than 350 years after it had been written.
This meditation is a straightforward one which has vast implications.
Avoid anything unless of course there's some profit or good which will derive from how you behave.
If nothing good can come of it, then do not do it.
This means a couple of things in my experience:
Drop the idea of and
Avoid something that it's of no help or not good.
I believe that Miyamoto Musashi wouldn't be pleased with the condition of today's society. Too many people spend a significant amount of of time doing activities which have little if any benefit.
Consider it.
Apart from relaxing us, entertaining us and diverting our attention, does watching the typical Television show provide much help to us?
Apart from entertaining us and diverting our attention, does spending all of our time on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube provide much help to us?
I am not too sure. I believe the outcomes are mixed. As I think it's wonderful that it's simpler than ever before to talk with others all over the world, I additionally think it can make it simpler for all of us down the sink our time chatting about things that aren't worthy of much of our attention.
As Eleanor Roosevelt stated: Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss occasions Small minds discuss people.
Personally, I believe we ought to take more time discussing ideas and fewer time discussing occasions or people.
I believe Miyamoto Musashi might have agreed.
Analysis
While you meditate this thought, think about the next questions:
How do you use my time and effort?
Do good and great things derive from my actions?
Inflict of my actions create a waste of my time and effort?
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