Miyamoto Musashi - Protect Your Honour At All Costs

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In this video, I talk about Miyamoto Musashi, as well as other philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca. I go into great detail over Principle 20 from Miyamoto Musashi’s Dokkodo: “You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honor.”
The reason, to put it briefly, that the sages, such as Miyamoto Musashi, tell us to value our honour above our own survival is because it preserves our conscience, and keeping our conscience healthy is the only way to live a free and peaceful life.

[@sonroqer8448]

Our honor will outlive our lives.

[@CHALLENGERSUPP]

yes and more importantly, it will also serve us in life

[@ys1197]

I miss custom thumbnails and the cartoons

[@SemperMaximus]

I have used this expression many times and I didnt know Miyamoto Musashi has said this centuries ago. Interesting.

[@Tomino555]

Love the message!

[@lightningwave403]

Hey , where is the conquer your Anger, Before it consumes you. Please bring back that video it helped me a lot

[@dlloydy5356]

Superb episode

[@AmanKumarSingh123]

Thank you

[@Ly_Warrior]

Man I couldn't agree more ⚡. Be honorable.

[@AyaJuni]

How would you people divide between honor, pride and ego?

[@21centuryboy17]

Why you delete the recent vidoes???😲

[@warrenbradford2597]

I have to value my honor over all the other virtues to follow this philosophy. I am not sure if it will be worth it, though.

[@antandrey2291]

Hei! I know your channel since 2017 and I want to ask.. Why have you deleted most of your old videos? Some of them inspired me and I occasionally came back to watch them. They helped and motivated me a lot in the past. Really sad to see I can't rewatch them no more

[@MoisaIonut]

they also removed 6 of their 7 most recent videos(this being the remaining one). Commenting here, I'm also curious about the reason behind the choice. Btw, they are not deleted, just private.

[@insiderperson18279]

His blog posts with the same videos are still up too, you just can't access them because they're privated

[@bramsturk619]

Wow nice video and art! Is there anywhere I can find this art?

[@zile8869]

You have a talent for twisting his words to fit your own narrative. Your honor has little to do with "good" and "evil".

[@Jahasperper]

Real

[@user-qv5qq9ss9h]

Pt. 3 of dokodo?

[@Himanshu_Upadhyay_]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@d1427]

4:57- 'But unlike a psychopath, most of us are born with a good, functioning conscience...' Are you sure that morals and ethics are congenital rather than educational? If this was so, why judge and condemn the one who had no choice in being born a psycho?

[@Stuntray454]

I've been thinking about the same thing recently.

[@zwagig1761]

I think it can be either, a person born with good conscience can become unethical according to their circumstances and at the same time a person born with no conscience can be made to have good morals based on their upbringing and circumstances So just because someone is born as a psychopath doesn't give them impunity to be a bad person

[@d1427]

@@zwagig1761 what do you think I meant by saying 'Are you sure that morals and ethics are congenital rather than educational?'

[@joeromero7120]

How would you define Honor ? There’s a command that states You shall honor your father and mother

[@Amirreza82021]

Damn I Just Fought him on Samurai Warriors 2 😂😂😂

[@1998jroy]

In these days peoples give up on right mindedness for materiel gains

[@xra1se-music909]

I enjoyed the vid, but the way u twisted the ad into the narration, made it sound a little dishonest for me.

[@SamSamIDKWhereIam]

This.

[@karlbyron243]

Mongols knew it and defeat the samurais

[@blah4957]

Smells like "I Want You to Enlist..."

[@arsenal0095]

That wisdom is for pawns (soldiers) to be used strategically and not fear death.

[@Xeronimo74]

Uh, not, it's not.

[@hunterjoe1354]

Miyamoto musashi would purposely be late and disrespect other peoples ideas of honor to get an edge in battle. Its funny imagining him and Socrates conversing

[@meechi8265]

First

[@insiderperson18279]

This is like the fourth time you've changed the look of your brand, why can't you make up your mind and be consistent, it makes your entire channel seem schizophernic

[@stefana2171]

Why not keep your old art style? It was unique to your channel, changing the entire look of the channel (especially when you had great response from previous art style) can be very damaging. Im just curious why

[@dillfunk9479]

He was so close to the truth. I love this guy but the quote should say “his honor is more important than your life.” And by him, I mean, Jesus.

[@87mcmahan87]

I was glued... until the sponsor ad and then it all felt so incredibly cheap. Wheres your honour? Your honor must be worth less than the 20 bucks you're making from this video. That being said, I loved it until then, im just so tired of ads and everyone selling out to make money on KZbin. Noone does anything genuinely anymore.

[@BIGDREAMHEEM]

To say something is done ingeniously because someone seeks to make a living from offering something of value for offering something of value is lame.