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A Book of Five Rings

The Strategy of Musashi

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A Book of Five Rings

By: Miyamoto Musashi
Narrated by: Alec Sand
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Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and Zen philosophy. Required reading for any martial artist, business person or student of strategy. Includes the one hour Zen inspired soundtrack The Mysterious Sound of Wind in the Bamboo. Performed on authentic Japanese instruments.

©2009 trout lake media (P)2009 Trout Lake Media Asia Career Success Combat Sports & Self-Defense Eastern Martial Arts Military Military science Philosophy Samurai Suspenseful Combat Sports

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Trulte a Classic to behold in awe the ways of the warrior of old. Recommended

A Classic

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Loved this even though i'm not a sword fighter or in need of knowing this I still loved learning it and imagining I was back in mid 1600s Japan

The music and story telling was fantastic

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well read. nice touch to add atmosphere with music. alot of wisdom in this little book. wish it had some personal examples and stories but that would be less educational.

fantastic little book

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Verses you have read many times will impact you in a new way when you hear them read aloud

4685 Verses

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The ultimate guide for self governance, growth, and the development of a personal philosophy. This book has been with me for over three decades, and the audio version gives it different dimension. Fantastic.

Classic for a reason.

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If you want to appreciate the philosophy of a warrior from Asia, it is of course impossible without putting a misterious flute between each chapter.

Why the flute?

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The narration is good, the flute is cool and the story is on point. I feel like it should tell people that this doesn’t give you the full experience or insight but it is an amazing starting point in the journey through Japanese philosophy and a good precursor to properly studying the book of five rings.

It’s a cool summary of the book of five rings

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Easy to listen to. very applicable to today's combat sports. I learned something so it has value.

nice summary of strategy

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