A Good Loser Never Perishes
BOOK THREE
The Tactics of Shokatsu Komei: The Art of War
Holding Power Over the Military
Main Military Objectives
Combining Ki and Sei
Adapting Military Tactics to Terrain
Performance Evaluation
Disciplinary Action Against Those Who Disobey Orders
Effective Strategy
BOOK FOUR
The Nature of the Martial Arts
Human Nature
Cultivation of Ego
The Road of Learning
Mindset of Martial Arts and Sutra
BOOK FIVE
The Rules of Mystic Power
Miracles and Mental Preparation
Developing Your Talent
The Principle of a Credulous Brain and an Incredulous Brain
Methods to Create an Incredulous Brain
The Rules of Things
Ability Development
BOOK SIX
Effective Use of Humor and Laughter
Refining Your Spirit and Leaders
Classification of Personalities Based on Sleeping Postures
Method of Identifying Body Types
Judgment Based on Habits
Judgment Based on the Way You Walk with Your Partner
Hidden Habits
Methods of Judging Handwriting
Hormones and Personality
Cold and Cough
BOOK SEVEN
Basic Information from Countenance and Figure
The Mystery of Money
The World of Money
Mechanism of a Shoestring Operation
What is Social Reform?
Desire
BOOK EIGHT
The Wisdom of a Wise Man
The Analects of Sontoku
A Boat and Water
References And Original Citations
FOREWORD
The third book of my favorite Tactics series by Shihan Kazumi Tabata has finally arrived and it is my great pleasure to endorse this best selling series.
Shihan Tabata and I are fellow pupils and descendants of Sensei Isao Obata, founder and first Chief Director of Japan Karate-do Federation.
While I am in the business field, Shihan Tabata was dispatched overseas by Sensei Isao Obata to promote Karate. Over the years, Shihan Tabata has been teaching Karate at universities, mastered esoteric learning, awakened to the state of enlightenment to apply what he learned to the real world, and established a whole worldview that is different from the past books written about martial arts.
The soul of martial arts exists in a world you can come to understand only after you reach the mysterious esoteric learning of the East. This book completes the series that has moved many of its readers. This series is well constructed and readers may come to understand this world of enlightenment as they read forward. The accomplishments the author attained through training and effort shines brilliantly throughout the series.
This book covers everything thoroughly yet simply, from immovable heart, fudo-shin (the universe and I are the same), world of the nothingness (mu) and the emptiness (ku), boundary of inner strength, to enlightenment of ancestors including classic texts. I feel privileged that I met this book. Readers who have all the books of this series can keep them over a lifetime and find new frontiers with every new read. This book not only guides you through life but also establishes wealth in your heart by connecting you with various worlds. I am sure it can help you break through the walls that appear in your life.
I am impressed and confident that these books will be read by those who come after us. I am honored to live in the same generation with Shihan Tabata. With confidence and pride, I truly recommend this book to keep by your side over your lifetime.
Satoshi Nishitani
Descendant of Isao Obata
President, Kawaden Corporation
Chief Director, Japan Businessman Karate-do Federation
(Renmei)
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
A turbulent time can be a time of opportunity. Heiho (strategy) can serve as practical criteria for making judgments. Such criteria must be based on facts.
Reality is uncertain and situations change. Therefore, our criteria should be based on what happened in the past.
During the tumultuous times of war, when warriors played every trick imaginable on each
