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Deceit

Those who serve no other but themselves hinder their business, thus hindering their own being too. They are deceiving themselves.

But those who wish to serve their organisation may also fall into deception. The cemetery is full of people who had good intentions and companies with ideas and talent.

Because in the company’s body, what is good for the mouth may be bad for the liver. But the mouth does not know that.

Because sometimes the lizard must sacrifice its tail in order to save itself. But that is something that the tail cannot understand.

As Seneca said, ‘senators are very intelligent but the Senate is completely stupid’. The samurai lead by serving and serve by leading, because they have outwitted this deception.

The samurai have reached mastery in the four arts. The four arts that are not taught in schools. The four arts that may be explained but can only be passed down wordlessly from sensei2 to seito3, incarnated in alive example.

Because these arts arise not from the knowledge but from the being.

And the being cannot deceive nor can be deceived.

2 Sensei: teacher.

3 Seito: student.