SAMURAI :: TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO

Tsunetomo Yamamoto :: "A samurai's word is harder than metal.

Since I have impressed this fact upon myself, what more can the gods and Buddhas do?"

and so .. he did not swear ! A samurai will never need to swear ..

 

"It is bad when one thing becomes two.

One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai.

It is the same for anything that is called a Way.

Therefore, it is inconsistent to hear something of the Way of Confucius or the Way of the Buddha,

and say that this is the Way of the Samurai.

If one understands things in this manner,

he should be able to hear about all says and be more and more in accord with his own"