{"id":1350,"date":"2008-02-19T23:56:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T07:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2008-02-19T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T07:56:22","slug":"a-samurai-creed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/a-samurai-creed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Samurai Creed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t vouch for the authenticity of this piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientworlds.net\/aw\/Post\/385535\">A Samurai Creed<\/a>, but it speaks volumes about practice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong> A Samurai&#8217;s Creed<\/strong><br \/>\nAnonymous, Circa 1300I have no parents; I make the heaven and earth my mother and father.<br \/>\nI have no home; I make awareness my dwelling.<br \/>\nI have no life and death; I make the tides of breathing my life and death.<br \/>\nI have no divine power; I make honesty my divine power.<br \/>\nI have no means; I make understanding my means.<br \/>\nI have no magic secrets; I make character my magic secret.<br \/>\nI have no body; I make endurance my body.<br \/>\nI have no eyes; I make the flash of lightning my eyes.<br \/>\nI have no ears; I make sensibility my ears.<br \/>\nI have no limbs; I make promptness my limbs.<br \/>\nI have no strategy; I make \u201cunshadowed by thought\u201d\u009d my strategy<br \/>\nI have no designs; I make \u201cseizing opportunity by the forelock\u201d\u009d my design.<br \/>\nI have no miracles; I make right action my miracle.<br \/>\nI have no principles; I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.<br \/>\nI have no tactics; I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.<br \/>\nI have no talents; I make ready wit my talent.<br \/>\nI have no friends; I make my mind my friend.<br \/>\nI have no enemy; I make carelessness my enemy.<br \/>\nI have no armor; I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.<br \/>\nI have no castle; I make immovable mind my castle.<br \/>\nI have no sword; I make absence of self my sword.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t vouch for the authenticity of this piece, A Samurai Creed, but it speaks volumes about practice. A Samurai&#8217;s Creed Anonymous, Circa 1300I have no parents; I make the heaven and earth my mother and father. I have no home; I make awareness my dwelling. I have no life and death; I make the tides of breathing my life and death. I have no divine power; I make honesty my divine power. I have no means; I make understanding my means. I have no magic secrets; I make character my magic secret. I have no body; I make endurance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-lM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}