To Learn From Musashi Miyamoto

Mountain Batok, Bromo, and Semeru Before Sunrise. Picture was taken on July 11, 2008, from Mountain Penanjakan, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia.













Mountain Batok and Bromo after Sunrise. Picture was also taken on July 11, 2008.

Musashi Miyamoto (the Lone Samurai, as written by Eiji Yoshikawa) was an autodidactic person. He taught himself to learn many kinds of knowledge. One of the knowledge Musashi learned is the thoughts of Sun Tzu as follow:

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy
and know yourself, your victory will not
stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know
Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Musashi was very modest, honest, and a tough personality to train himself. He realized the importance of timing and rhythm in every aspects of life. The most interesting point of Musashi is that he knew how to read time. He knew when to stop fighting and transformed himself to be an artist, and ended himself to be a philosopher in the end of his life. It seems he needed great intuition to decide when to stop something and when to start something else. His great intuition made him to be a real life fighter. He drove time, not the time drove his life.

Sometimes I think how great he was, while I am constantly to be a just mediocre person. Greetings from Yogyakarta to live the blog.