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nockergeek) wrote2002-06-19 04:30 pm
nockergeek) wrote2002-06-19 04:30 pm
Hagakure
From the 1st Chapter:
"At the time when there was a council concerning the promotion of a certain man. the council members were at the point of deciding that promotion was useless because of the fact that the man had previously been involved in a drunken brawl. But someone said, 'If we were to cast aside every man who had made a mistake once, useful men could probably not be come by. A man who makes a mistake once will be considerably more prudent and useful because of his repentance. I feel that he should be promoted.'
Someone else then asked, 'Will you guarantee him?'
The man replied, 'Of course I will.'
The others asked, 'By what will you guarantee him?'
And he replied, 'I can guarantee him by the fact that he is a man who has erred once. A man who has never once erred is dangerous.' This said, the man was promoted."
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
"At the time when there was a council concerning the promotion of a certain man. the council members were at the point of deciding that promotion was useless because of the fact that the man had previously been involved in a drunken brawl. But someone said, 'If we were to cast aside every man who had made a mistake once, useful men could probably not be come by. A man who makes a mistake once will be considerably more prudent and useful because of his repentance. I feel that he should be promoted.'
Someone else then asked, 'Will you guarantee him?'
The man replied, 'Of course I will.'
The others asked, 'By what will you guarantee him?'
And he replied, 'I can guarantee him by the fact that he is a man who has erred once. A man who has never once erred is dangerous.' This said, the man was promoted."
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai