The Primary Ethos of a Warrior.

It means only one thing, and everything: CUT! Once commited to the fight, CUT! Everything else is secondary. CUT! That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one: cut.

Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quicky and decisively as possible. Cut with certainty. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into his strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit. It is the balance to life: death.

It is the dance with death or, more precisely, the mechanism of the dance with death - its essence reduced to form, its form prescribed by concepts. It is the law a warrior lives by, or he dies. Cut...