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	<title><![CDATA[Five Spirits of Budo]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[I'm gonna start with the mind of Shoshin;
  Principles to learn and to live and even wash in,
  Beginners mind like a sponge with a light inside it;
  Every barrier you come to love it and ride it.

  Then while you practice and improve towards ability;
  Shugyo your catchphrase? well it should include servility,
  Always aware of all that is in your vicinity;
  For Zanshin is the start of all divinity.

  Plenty to do and learn to develop both states of mind;
  Plenty of gains to earn as you search and seek and find,
  Before you relax, let go and enter the void;
  Where new gains and new rules are yet to be employed.

  The state of no mind, nothing yet not nothing at all;
  The state of stillness yet yet stuckness don't exist at all,
  Mushin, where courageous live but brave must fall;
  Where you have nothing yet in truth you have it all.

  Now you can pick up your sword and truly begin;
  Learn the ways of focus whilst maintaining still Zanshin,
  Learn the ways of bright clearness yet leaving no opening;
  Not a mind that can't move but one that doesn't: Fudoshin. 

  Then the clouds evaporate and out and in are blending;
  Any forces come your way you borrow as they're for lending,
  You, the universe, nature, sharing all as one breath breathing,
  Senshin!!!

   I'm done, I'm leaving.......

   G.]]></body>
	<date>10-20-2011</date>
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