Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.


Quoted in Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro; Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture (1970); p. 188

Uesugi Kenshin Quotes

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.