The Ninja Master's Admonitions

- Know the wisdom of being patient during times of inactivity.

- Choose the course of justice as the path for your life.

- Do not allow your heart to be controlled by the demands of desire, pleasure or dependence.

- Sorrow, pain and resentment are natural qualities to be encountered in life. Therefore, work to cultivate the enlightenment of the immovable spirit.

- Hold in your heart the importance of family loyalty and pursue the literary and warrior arts with balanced determination.

Shinryuken Masamitsu Toda

Togakure Ryu Ninjutsu 32nd Grandmaster

New Year's Day, 1891

Source: Ninjutsu - The Art of the Invisible Warrior

by Stephen K. Hayes