well this is ancient wisdom (ps it is the basic rule of bushido (not literally but the same base) so it is quite ancient (1200 the samurai were around allready)):
Fate is in Heaven, the armor is on the breast, success is with the legs. Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory, and you will come home with no wounds whatever. Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death. When you leave the house determined not to see it again you will come home safely; when you have any thought of returning you will not return. You may not be in the wrong to think that the world is always subject to change, but the warrior must not entertain this way of thinking, for his fate is always determined.
Uesugi Kenshin 1530-1573
and this to:
All my life I taught Zen to the people -
Nine and seventy years.
Who he sees not things as they are
Will never know Zen.
Enni Ben'en (1201-1280)
Last edited by timoV44; Aug 16, 2009 at 11:19 AM.