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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Recommended Reading

As a poker philosopher I would highly recommend that anyone looking to take their game to a higher level, read; The Art Of War by: Sun Tzu and Zen and The Art of Archery by: Eugen Herrigel

-So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself


-Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful.

-Never will those who wage war tire of deception. -Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

l(...) The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye which confronts him. This state of unconscious is realized only when, completely empty and rid of the self, he becomes one with the perfecting of his technical skill, though there is in it something of a quite different order which cannot be attained by any progressive study of the art (...)" - Eugen Harrigel (Zen and The Art of Archery)


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