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“Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things. As if it were a straight road mapped out on the ground, the first book is called the ground book.” - Miyamoto Musashi
The ground holds the foundation, the foundation those things that make for a complete structure capable of standing the test of time. Only in this way can one achieve master over any discipline. The discipline that is mastered leads to the understanding of many disciplines regardless of content. It allows us to see, feel and hear all the myriad things due to the inter-connectedness of Earh, the ground, the support of the foundation of all disciplines. All rely on how the foundation is laid, it must be laid by knowing, understanding and mastering the smallest of things, the biggest of things, the shallowest of things and the depth of things. All things are built on the foundation and the foundation is built on the ground, the Earth.
Heaven and Earth denote: Heaven signifies night and day, cold and head, times and seasons, hard and soft, waxing and waning and other phenomena. Earth comprises of distances (maai, etc), danger, security, open ground and narrow passes, the chance of life and death where man stands on the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness.
Man is the fulcrum of Heave and Earth where heart relates to the ebb and flow of both. Man, humans, are a microcosm of Heaven and Earth, i.e., heart, blood, hardness and softness, balance and unbalance, directions, when and when not to take the opportunity, seeing all things, hearing all things and the ability to adjust and change accordingly.
Heave and Earth direct and drive all of nature as to balance and equilibrium and by symbiosis govern that of humans internally and externally according the the yin-yang that is the one wholehearted myriad things of the Universe that was born of the singularity called, “The One.” The One is the Way, the Way is the map of life as laid out in the singularity mono-path that is time, time being the straight road that maps out on the ground of time, the path that one follows that is both small and large.
Alls things are driven this way such as the method and discipline that governs martial prowess and mastery. It is in this “Way” that one achieves success, morality, contentment, peace and tranquility in all the myriad things that comprise life’s roads paved in conflict and violence as in nature from pleasant weather to that which lifts the waves of the ocean to such stature of tidal and tsunami proportions.
The smallest and largest of man: humanity or benevolence; uprightness of mind; self-respect; self-control; proper feelings; wisdom; sincerity or good faith.
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