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What is Bushido This term refers to the moral code principals that developed among the samurai (military) class of Japan, on a basis of national tradition influenced by Zen and Confucianism. The first use of the term apparently occured during the civil war period of the 16th century; its precise content varied historically as samurai standards evolved. Its one unchanging ideal was martial ...

INTRODUCTION By George Leonard From the Book: The Zen Way to the Martial Arts. You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. These words of instruction to a medieval samurai might be said to contain the essence of what Zen master Taisen Deshimaru would tell his Western reader. To practice Zen or the martial arts, you must live ...