Mushashi is the subject of lore and legend and thusly there are differing accounts.....my account has Mushashi abandoning the sword and devoting the later years of his life at a certain mountain retreat, as a solitary retreatant.
But apparently accounts differ.
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Re: Shaolin: Can Buddhist monks also be warriors?
by ronnewmexico » Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:15 am
"This order considers that progress can be achieved more rapidly during a single month of self-transformation through terrifying conditions in rough terrain and in "the abode of harmful forces" than through meditating for a period of three years in towns and monasteries"....Takpo Tashi Namgyal.
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