“Do not allow the words to hold back your understanding. As words, they are inadequate... Remember that this is to be your own experience. Let the words point you in a direction: you make the trip yourself.”
- Introduction to The Wind Book, The Book of Five Rings, Bantam Edition
Any "learning to do" book should have a variation of this in the introduction. This certainly includes Unschooling Rules. And, I suppose, any school would do worse than to have this as their philosophy.
I can only find the Shambhala edition, are you referring to the book by Miyamoto? I can't find it under "The Wind Book" at our library at all. Is it the same thing you're referring to?
ReplyDelete-Kathryn
Hi Kathryn,
ReplyDeleteThe quote is from page 89 of The Book of Five Rings (Amazon link).