Isen's Reviews > The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master

The book consists of three essays written by a Zen priest as advice to a martial artist. The first essay's input can be summarised as "don't focus on the opponent's sword". A valid point, to be sure, but one that could be stated much more succinctly. The other two, from what I can tell, have very little to do with martial arts at all, but just ruminations on Buddhism and Zen in particular. I can only assume that the arguments therein are very profound to a practitioner, as to a layman they are at best vacuous, and more often meaningless.