The Way of Action — the full program
Twenty-four weeks. Six months. Open any week to see that week's daily checklist, Sunday reading, and reflection prompt. Click a week to expand.
Earth
Week 1 Name the avoidance. Write what you thought about instead of did. ▾
You arrived here not because you cannot plan but because you cannot stop. Week one does not break that machine. It looks at it. Each night, one sentence on paper: 'Today I thought about X instead of doing it.' One thing. One sentence. No analysis. Each morning, name one thing you 'should' do today — write it on paper and do not act on it yet. This month is observation. The list is the diagnosis. The fix begins next month, and only if the diagnosis is honest.
Each day
- MORNINGFive minutes seated, eyes lowered, no app. Notice the urge to plan instead of begin.5 min
- MORNINGBefore any screen — name on paper one thing you 'should' do today. Do not act on it.2 min
- EVENINGRead one Dokkōdō line aloud, slowly, before phone.2 min
- EVENINGWrite one sentence on paper: 'Today I thought about X instead of doing it.' No analysis.6 min
One time, one meeting. Every moment of possible action is a one-time event. The first reading of the protocol is the warning underneath the rest. You are not delaying. You are killing the moment. Read it slowly. Do not summarise.
Of the things I 'thought about' this week, which one would I most regret never doing — and what is the smallest version of it that exists?
Week 2 Catch the planning costume. ▾
Second week of observation. The mind, sensing it is being watched, will try to behave — it will offer to start something this week so the list looks shorter. Refuse. The seeing is the work. Continue the night sentence. Continue the morning naming. The Dokkōdō line at night is the anchor. Notice this week the specific shape your planning takes — research, outlining, 'reading one more book,' rehearsing in the shower. Name the costume on Saturday's review without flinching.
Each day
- MORNINGFive minutes seated. Notice the urge to plan instead of begin.5 min
- MORNINGName on paper one thing you 'should' do today. Do not act on it.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud, slowly.2 min
- EVENINGWrite one sentence: 'Today I thought about X instead of doing it.'6 min
Pearls before swine. Most of your 'preparation' is procrastination in costume — careful work given to nothing. Read it and notice which of this week's planning rituals would not survive being read aloud to a friend.
What is the specific costume my planning wore this week — research, outlining, rehearsing, waiting — and what was it covering?
Week 3 Read the list without editing. ▾
Week three. The list is long enough to be useful and short enough to be honest. The work is to look without correcting. The mind will negotiate for action as a way of avoiding the discomfort of seeing — do not concede. The instruction is unchanged. Five minutes seated. Morning name. Dokkōdō line. Evening sentence. On Saturday, read the entries aloud to yourself in order. Notice which one shows up four or five times. That entry is your week-one heir.
Each day
- MORNINGFive minutes seated.5 min
- MORNINGName on paper one thing you 'should' do today.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
- EVENINGWrite one sentence: 'Today I thought about X instead of doing it.'6 min
Mind of no mind — not absence of thought but absence of the war between thoughts. Read it before the action month begins. The cure for the over-planner is not a louder will. It is a quieter inside.
Which 'thought about' entry recurred most this week — and what is the smallest physical thing I could send, post, submit, or say aloud about it on Monday?
Week 4 Read the diagnosis aloud. Begin to break the lock. ▾
End of month one. The list is the deliverable. On Saturday, read the entire month aloud, in order, to yourself, in a room with the door closed. Do not edit. The fact that you can read it without flinching is the milestone. The fact that you can read it at all is the change. Next week begins the ugly-version month. The list will not be solved by reading. It will be cut, one entry at a time, by shipping.
Each day
- MORNINGFive minutes seated.5 min
- MORNINGName on paper one thing you 'should' do today.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
- EVENINGWrite one sentence: 'Today I thought about X instead of doing it.'6 min
The imperfect is the only version that exists. Before you ship anything next week, read the word for what the shipped thing will be. Cracked, asymmetric, weathered, true. Read it slowly.
After reading my month aloud — what is the one entry I am most ashamed I have been planning, and what does the smallest first move look like?
Water
Week 5 Ship one small ugly thing every day. ▾
First week of action. Before any screen, write the day's ONE thing on paper — one sentence, not five. Start it within sixty seconds of opening the laptop. No email, no news, no message. Sword first. One imperfect thing shipped today before the day ends — sent, posted, submitted, said aloud, handed over. Quality is not the metric. Existence is. The mind will try to redefine 'ship' upward. Do not let it. A sent message counts. A posted sentence counts. A submitted half-draft counts.
Each day
- MORNINGBefore any screen — write the day's ONE thing on paper. One sentence.2 min
- MORNINGBegin the named thing within sixty seconds of opening the laptop. No email, no news first.1 min
- MIDDAYShip one imperfect thing today — sent, posted, submitted, said aloud, handed over.12 min
- EVENINGTick: did I ship the one thing? Yes or no. No story.1 min
- EVENINGTomorrow's one thing, written in one sentence on paper before sleep.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
Failure is the root of success. The first week of shipping ugly is also the first week of being seen ugly. Read it. Honda's fifteen minutes of rejection by Toyota became Honda. The rejection was the work.
Of the seven small things I shipped this week, which one embarrassed me most — and what would the planning-version of me still be doing with it?
Week 6 Wednesday — release one slightly bigger ugly thing. ▾
Daily ship continues. This week adds one slightly bigger release on Wednesday — a draft, a proposal, a hard message, a price you have not asked for. Release it before refining further. The mind will object. Note the objection. Send anyway. The week is about widening the size of what counts as 'ship' without removing the rule that today's small ship is non-negotiable. Five days of small, one day of slightly bigger. The Dokkōdō continues.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing on paper before any screen.2 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds of opening the laptop.1 min
- MIDDAYShip one imperfect thing before the day ends.12 min
- EVENINGTick: did I ship? Yes or no.1 min
- EVENINGTomorrow's one thing in one sentence.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
Bruce Lee — absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, add what is essentially your own. The garden-hose principle: pick up what is to hand and act. Read it. Notice how often your refusal to act is dressed as connoisseurship.
What did Wednesday's bigger ugly thing cost me — in time, in shame, in result — and was it more or less than I expected?
Week 7 Keep the ship small. Refuse the disease. ▾
Third week of shipping. The disease will try to return through the back door — the daily ship will start to grow. Three hours becomes the new 'small.' You will know it has happened because the morning sentence has stopped fitting on one line. Cut it back. A sent message counts. A posted sentence counts. A submitted half-draft counts. The smallness is the medicine. Sword first, every day. The Dokkōdō line at night.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing on paper before any screen — one sentence only.2 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds.1 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing — smaller than yesterday if yesterday's grew.12 min
- EVENINGTick: did I ship? Yes or no.1 min
- EVENINGTomorrow's one thing in one sentence.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
One percent, not one hundred. The daily ship that grows by one percent becomes useful in two years. The daily ship that doubles in week three breaks the practice in week four. Read it before the mind tries to upgrade.
Did the daily ship grow this week — and if it did, what was it covering for?
Week 8 Close the month: 25 of 30 days, small, imperfect, real. ▾
End of month two. The deliverable is twenty-five small ships in thirty days. Many of them embarrassed you. That is the proof. The mind will want to count which ones 'mattered.' Refuse. Existence is the metric. Existence is the discipline. The Wednesday bigger-ship is now ritualised. The Dokkōdō line at night is the closing breath of the day. Next month adds the two-question protocol. This week, the practice is unchanged.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing on paper.2 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds.1 min
- MIDDAYShip one imperfect thing.12 min
- EVENINGTick: yes or no.1 min
- EVENINGTomorrow's one thing in one sentence.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
Single-mindedness, the one thought held without negotiation. The thirty days of shipping have begun to feel like ichinen. Read it. The next month will narrow this further into a two-question discipline.
Twenty-five small ships in thirty days — what now exists in the world that did not exist eight weeks ago?
Fire
Week 9 Begin the two-question discipline. Ban 'I'll think about it.' ▾
The daily ship continues — it is floor now, not ceiling. Add the two-question protocol, in writing, on paper, before every non-trivial decision. One: do I have clarity about why? Two: what is the smallest next step? If question one is yes, question two's answer must happen within twenty-four hours. No exceptions. No 'I'll get to it.' Ban the phrase 'I'll think about it' from your inner voice. When you catch yourself saying it, write the two-question answers instead.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing on paper. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.12 min
- MIDDAYRun the two-question protocol on one real decision, in writing on paper.5 min
- EVENINGTick: did I ship? Did I run the two-question discipline at least once today? Yes or no for each.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.3 min
Sun Tzu hated war. The supreme excellence was subduing the situation without fighting it. The two-question discipline applies this inwardly. Read it. Notice that the real enemy is not the world — it is your own avoidance dressed as deliberation.
Of the decisions I ran the two questions on this week, how many led to action within twenty-four hours — and what stopped the rest?
Week 10 Two questions, twice maximum per decision. ▾
Second week of the discipline. New rule: each decision gets the two questions twice, maximum. After the second pass, the smallest step happens or the decision is killed in writing. The mind will try to run the questions ten times on the same item. That is not deliberation. That is stalling with better grammar. The daily ship continues underneath. The Dokkōdō continues. On Friday, count how many two-question entries led to action within the same day. Do not optimise. Observe.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.12 min
- MIDDAYRun two-question protocol on one decision — twice maximum. Then act or kill it.5 min
- EVENINGTick: ship yes/no, two-question yes/no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.3 min
The world of the Void — the fifth scroll, the state in which what is real becomes obvious. The two-question discipline is the practical entry to it. Read it slowly. The Void is not absence; it is the absence of the noise that was hiding the work.
Which decision did I kill in writing this week instead of acting on — and was that killing strategic or cowardly?
Week 11 Apply the questions to a load-bearing decision. ▾
Third week. Take one decision that has been on the list for months — the conversation you have not had, the price you have not raised, the partnership you have not asked for. Run the two questions in writing. If clarity exists, the smallest step happens within twenty-four hours. If clarity does not exist, define what would create clarity, and do that within twenty-four hours. The decision moves this week, in one direction or the other. The practice underneath continues.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.12 min
- MIDDAYTwo-question protocol — this week on at least one load-bearing decision, in writing.5 min
- EVENINGTick: ship yes/no, two-question yes/no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.3 min
The immovable mind. The load-bearing decision will pull at you. The two-question discipline only holds if you can stand still while the wind blows. Read Fudōshin. The answer to the question is in writing, not in the feeling.
What load-bearing decision moved this week because I refused to keep deliberating it — and what did it cost me to act?
Week 12 The discipline runs by default. ▾
End of month three. The two-question discipline has begun to run in your head for everyday decisions and on paper for the ones that matter. 'I'll think about it' has visibly retreated from your inner monologue — friends and colleagues will start to notice you give shorter answers and act faster on them. Hold the form. The Sunday review: read the week's two-question entries and notice how many would have been 'I'll think about it' six weeks ago.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.12 min
- MIDDAYTwo-question protocol on at least one decision.5 min
- EVENINGTick: ship yes/no, two-question yes/no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.3 min
Zen — direct seeing, the moment before the second voice arrives. Read it as a description of what is starting to happen in your decision-making. You are not faster because you are pushing. You are faster because there is less to push against.
How many decisions this week were closed within twenty-four hours that would have taken weeks three months ago — and what does that tell me about who I am becoming?
Wind
Week 13 Begin courting the no. One 'risk-a-no' a day. ▾
Month four. A new defence has appeared — caution. The mind has stopped saying 'plan more' and started saying 'only ship safe things.' This week you raise the rejection rate on purpose. Once a day, do something that risks a clean 'no' — a pitch, a request, a question to a stranger, a higher price asked aloud, a reach above your perceived station. The action is the win. The answer is data. The daily ship and the two-question protocol continue underneath. They are floor.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.10 min
- MIDDAYRisk one clean no today — pitch, request, question, price. Action is the win.8 min
- EVENINGTick: did I risk a no today? Yes or no. Outcome irrelevant to the tick.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
Rise from the dead, return to life. The version of you that needs not to be rejected has to die before the actor can stand up. Read it. The relapse is part of the process, not its end.
What no did I receive this week that I have been protecting myself from for years — and what did the no actually feel like?
Week 14 Wednesday rejection target — five small pursuits in one day. ▾
This week introduces the Wednesday rejection target — five small pursuits in one day that each risk a 'no.' Tally outcomes on paper. Five rejections counts as a successful day. One acceptance counts as a successful day. Refusing to play counts as failure. The point is not to be told no. The point is to act without controlling the outcome — make the asking unilateral and the answer somebody else's job. The daily no continues on the other six days.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.10 min
- MIDDAYRisk one clean no today. On Wednesday — five small pursuits.8 min
- EVENINGTick: did I risk a no today? Yes or no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
What is in your power, what is not. The asking is in your power. The answer is not. Read it before Wednesday so that when five nos arrive in one day you do not mistake the outcome for the verdict.
How many nos did I collect on Wednesday — and which one stung in a way that tells me something about an old story?
Week 15 Watch for shame spirals; if they arrive, slow the asking. ▾
Third week of the rejection target. The Wednesday tally is its own ritual. The risk is no longer in the asking — the risk is now in misuse. If the rejection-seeking produces shame spirals, you are doing it from anxiety, not Mushin. Slow the asking. Pair with The Iron Mind. The point is not punishment. The point is unilateral action with the answer left to the other side. Continue the daily ship. Continue the two-question protocol. Continue the daily no.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.10 min
- MIDDAYRisk one clean no today. On Wednesday — five small pursuits.8 min
- EVENINGTick: did I risk a no today? Yes or no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
Dignified endurance. The sting of a no is not the no itself; it is the meaning the mind tries to make of it. Gaman is staying inside the sting without collapsing under it. Read it.
Did this week's asking come from Mushin or from anxiety — and how did the difference feel in my body?
Week 16 Close out month four. The sting is duller, the asking sharper. ▾
End of month four. You have collected, on purpose, more rejections in a month than you collected accidentally in the previous year. The sting is duller. The skill of asking is sharper. The fantasy that you were protecting yourself by not asking has been retired. The Sunday work this week is to count the month's tally and notice which acceptance came that you would never have received six months ago. Hold the form. Next month narrows everything to a single cut.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.10 min
- MIDDAYRisk one clean no today. On Wednesday — five small pursuits.8 min
- EVENINGTick: did I risk a no today? Yes or no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
Schopenhauer — the unhealed past consumes the unlived future, and most refusal to act is a debt being paid to a person who has long since left the room. Read it. The asking has begun to retire the debt.
Which yes arrived this month that I would never have received six months ago — and what did I have to risk to make it possible?
Void
Week 17 Cut the single thing. The day's heir is named and finished. ▾
Month five collapses the day to its decisive cut. Each morning, before any screen, write the day's ONE thing on paper — the day's heir, the single decisive cut. Not three things. One. The other things are noise until the heir is dead. Begin it within sixty seconds of opening the laptop. Email is not first. News is not first. The cut is first. Do not begin the second task until the first is complete. If it cannot be completed today, define what 'today's completion' means and complete that.
Each day
- MORNINGBefore any screen — write the day's ONE thing on paper. The heir. One sentence.3 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds of opening the laptop. Email is not first.1 min
- MORNINGWork the heir until it is finished or until 'today's completion' is met. Do not begin task two before then.18 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing — the daily floor still holds.4 min
- EVENINGTick: did I finish the named one thing? Yes or no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.2 min
Total absorption in one act. The single cut is its operational definition. Read it before you sit down for next Friday's three-hour block. The cut is not the easiest thing. It is the most decisive thing.
On the days I finished the named one thing — what did I refuse to do that I would have done six months ago?
Week 18 Friday — one three-hour deep block, no internet. ▾
This week adds the Friday deep block — one three-hour stretch, no internet, on the week's biggest heir. The result of the block is the win, however small it looks. The mind will offer many reasons that Friday is the wrong day, that three hours is too much, that the heir is unclear. Note them. Sit anyway. The block is the unit. The daily cut continues on the other six days. The Dokkōdō line at night is the closing breath.
Each day
- MORNINGWrite the day's ONE thing. Begin within sixty seconds.3 min
- MORNINGWork the heir. Friday — three hours, no internet, on the week's biggest heir.18 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.4 min
- EVENINGTick: did I finish the named one thing? Yes or no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.3 min
The artisan spirit. The three-hour block on Friday is not a sprint. It is the artisan at the bench, slow, exact, watched by no one. Read it. The block is for the work, not for the photograph.
What did Friday's three hours produce — and what would I have done with those three hours one year ago?
Week 19 Catch the rename — when 'easy' is being called 'important.' ▾
Third week of the cut. The mind will start to rename the easiest thing as the most important thing — to protect itself. Test each morning: if I die tonight, which of today's possible acts would I most regret not having done? That is today's heir. The rest can wait until tomorrow's mortality check. The discipline is the cut, not the comfort. The daily ship still ticks. The Friday deep block continues. The Dokkōdō at night.
Each day
- MORNINGMortality check — write one sentence: 'If today were the last day, the thing I would most regret not doing is ___.' That is the heir.3 min
- MORNINGBegin the heir within sixty seconds.1 min
- MORNINGWork the heir. Friday — three hours, no internet.17 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.4 min
- EVENINGTick: did I finish the named one thing? Yes or no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.3 min
Duty over feeling. The cut on a tired Wednesday afternoon is not made by motivation. It is made by Yamato Damashii. Read it. The discipline outlives the mood.
On the days the easy thing tried to be the heir — what was it covering for, and did the mortality check pull the truth out?
Week 20 Close the month. 'I'm busy' has begun to taste embarrassing. ▾
End of month five. The number of half-started tasks in your life has visibly collapsed. The words 'I'm busy' have started to feel embarrassing in your own mouth. People around you have noticed something. They cannot name it. It is the absence of the planning monologue you used to lead conversations with. Hold the form. The cut is now the day's centre. The Friday deep block has happened four weeks running. The Sunday read is the closing of Void scroll before Beyond begins.
Each day
- MORNINGMortality check — name the heir in one sentence.3 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds.1 min
- MORNINGWork the heir. Friday — three hours, no internet.17 min
- MIDDAYShip one small thing.4 min
- EVENINGTick: yes or no.2 min
- EVENINGOne Dokkōdō line read aloud.3 min
The broken bowl mended in gold. Five months in, the old planner is not erased; he is mended into the actor. The cracks where the over-thinking used to live are now visible in gold — they are where the cut lives. Read it.
What did people around me start to notice this month — and what is the sentence I keep wanting to say less often?
Beyond
Week 21 Act from the Void. One cut, one ship — for life. ▾
The plan is over because the action is real. The architecture of months two to five collapses into a single posture: name the heir, begin within sixty seconds, ship something before sleep. The two-question protocol now runs invisibly. It returns to paper only for the load-bearing decisions. The mortality check is written each morning in one sentence. The world responds to motion, not to intention. You have become someone whose default is to start.
Each day
- MORNINGMortality check + the day's ONE thing on paper — the heir.3 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds. No email, no message, no news first.1 min
- MORNINGFive-minute sit before the work — eyes lowered, breath at the belly. The sit is the doorway; the work is the room.5 min
- MORNINGWork the heir until today's completion is met.13 min
- MIDDAYOne thing shipped before lunch — sent, posted, submitted, said aloud.4 min
- EVENINGTick: did I finish the named one thing? Yes or no, no story.1 min
- EVENINGTomorrow's one thing in one sentence. Then Dokkōdō line 21 read aloud: 'Never stray from the way.'3 min
Manabu — the deep learning of imitation followed by integration. You have imitated Musashi's posture for five months. This month you integrate it. Read it. The act is no longer a copy of the protocol. The protocol has become the act.
Where did the two-question protocol run invisibly this week — and where did I have to put it back on paper because the decision was load-bearing?
Week 22 Sunday — one bigger ugly version released, weekly. ▾
This week ritualises the Sunday bigger ship for life. One bigger ugly version released — a chapter, a draft, a proposal, a hard conversation. Released before further refinement. The Wednesday rejection target continues as a permanent rhythm, not a month-four exercise. Five small pursuits, five tallies. The daily cut continues. The five-minute sit before the work is non-negotiable; without it, the action is panic with better dressing.
Each day
- MORNINGMortality check + the day's ONE thing.3 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds. Five-minute sit before the work.6 min
- MORNINGWork the heir.13 min
- MIDDAYOne thing shipped before lunch.4 min
- EVENINGTick. Tomorrow's one thing in one sentence.1 min
- EVENINGDokkōdō line 21 read aloud.3 min
Hold the form, break the form, leave the form. Six months in, you are between Ha and Ri. Read the whole map. Notice that leaving the form is not abandoning it — it is carrying it without needing to name it.
What bigger ugly version did I release this Sunday — and what would I have done with it if I had kept refining it for another month?
Week 23 Quarterly review begins — what was made, not what was planned. ▾
This week adds the quarterly review — one page in writing. What shipped. What fell. What is being avoided again. The avoidance list returns and gets cut again. The review is honest, not flattering. The over-planner you used to be will visit again — usually before a project larger than your current capacity. When he visits, recognise him quickly. Do not argue with him. Begin the smallest next step within sixty seconds. The cut is the conversation.
Each day
- MORNINGMortality check + the day's ONE thing.3 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds. Five-minute sit before the work.6 min
- MORNINGWork the heir.13 min
- MIDDAYOne thing shipped before lunch.4 min
- EVENINGTick. Tomorrow's one thing in one sentence.1 min
- EVENINGDokkōdō line 21 read aloud.3 min
Wu wei — action that does not force. The quarterly review will surface things that died on the way. Read this so you can mark them honestly, without forcing the failure into a story it was never going to fit.
On the quarterly page — what shipped, what fell, what am I avoiding again, and what is the smallest next step on the avoided thing?
Week 24 Arrive when not expected. Cut the centre. Do not stay to win the field. ▾
The last week. The over-planner used to be your most sophisticated identity. He had read more books than the people doing the work. He was almost ready, always. He is now buried. The man who walks out of Ichijōji and disappears into the rice paddies is the man you have become — not the swordsman, but the posture. Arrive when not expected. Cut the centre. Do not stay to win the field. The structure carries forward unchanged. The plan is finished by moving. Move.
Each day
- MORNINGMortality check + the day's ONE thing on paper before any screen.3 min
- MORNINGBegin within sixty seconds. Five-minute sit before the work.6 min
- MORNINGWork the heir until today's completion is met.13 min
- MIDDAYOne thing shipped before lunch.4 min
- EVENINGTick. Tomorrow's one thing in one sentence.1 min
- EVENINGDokkōdō line 21 read aloud, slowly, every night this week: never stray from the way.3 min
Twenty-four weeks ago you arrived with a plan you had been planning for years. Tonight you read the man — sixty duels, two-sword school, the boat to Ganryū-jima, the oar carved into a sword, the boy at Ichijōji, the cave at Reigando. He planned little and acted decisively. Now you do the same.
If someone asked me today what I am working on, would I describe a thing that exists in the world — or an idea in my head?