The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master (The ^AWay of the Warrior Series)
So succinct are the author's insights that these writings have outlasted the dissolution of the samurai class to come down to the present and be read for guidance and inspiration by the captains of bu…
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