Miyamoto Musashi - Protect Your Honour At All Costs
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In this video, I talk about Miyamoto Musashi, as well as other philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca. I go into great detail over Principle 20 from Miyamoto Musashi’s Dokkodo: “You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honor.”
The reason, to put it briefly, that the sages, such as Miyamoto Musashi, tell us to value our honour above our own survival is because it preserves our conscience, and keeping our conscience healthy is the only way to live a free and peaceful life.