This is where it all ends in training and where it starts in living...
The Void is the final lesson in Myamoto Musashi's "Book Of Five Rings", it is also the final section of Sun Tzu's "Art of War", here is reproduced some of the wisdom found within these's pages, please relax a moment and see what there is to learn.
Zanshin is Japanese for what martial artists know as "Combat Awareness" it is what is fouind by living in the void, the edge of life, where you enable yourself to risk everything to defeat an enemy. Without Zanshin you cannot meditate, without giving everything you cannot produce your best performance.
THE VOID
Hence, what is valued in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
When attacking from your hiding place strike swiftly, go for the closest kill first protecting your advantage of distance over the enemy. Above this is only the need to protect / kill the flag carrier.
In order to make the soldiers courageous in overcoming the enemy, they must be roused to anger.
The Sniper is one of the few players with time to be typing, use that time to get your team mates organised, giving them information on where everyone is and what the other side are doing.
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.
He who is well prepared and lies in wait for an enemy who is not well prepared will be victorious.
Therefore, I say: Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.
After a few times having killed the same person, you will get the measure of him/her. Do they curse you and come now only for your head? Good! They are a weakness in their team. Do they type insults? Good! Typing takes ones attention from the fight, they will be destroyed by your troops attack. If they organise their attacks around your hiding place, fall back to your base and await them there. Do they gang up on you? Knowing the opponent’s mind is the key to victory. Try faking a flag run from the opposite entrance than your teams current attack, hide near the flag and if you team fail nip in and grab it.
The skilful warriors in ancient times first made themselves invincible and then waited the enemy's moment of vulnerability.
In tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there must be no disorder in one's own troops. The battlefield may seem in confusion and chaos, but one's array must be in good order.
Generally, he who occupies the field of battle first and awaits his enemy is at ease, and he who comes later to the scene and rushes into the fight is weary.
How subtle and insubstantial, that the expert leaves no trace. How divinely mysterious, that he is inaudible. Thus, he is master of his enemy's fate.
Appear at places that he is unable to rescue; move swiftly in a direction where you are least expected.
Therefore, analyse the enemy's plans so that you will know his shortcomings as strong points.
Weigh the situation before you move. He who knows the artifice of diversion will be victorious. Such is the art of manoeuvring.
For a better understanding of the"Art of War" please follow this link to the full version
ZANSHIN
Full marks to anyone who recognises these quotes, by studying what they say you will learn everything you will ever need to know to win in battle:
"There are vicious men in this world, when in a fight with such men strike first and strike to kill".
"If your in trouble and it looks like your not going to make it, thats when you've got to get plum mean...".
This is all you ever need to know...
The 3 laws of Ninjustsu (The art of the assassin, translated from 14th Century texts) :
- Deception. Be in a place where you are not suspected, move unseen like a ghost.
- Surprise. Attack without warning, strike like lightening.
- Bloody Mindedness. Kill without compassion, kill knowing you are defending what is your own.
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