Scholars believe that a samurai-turned-Zen-monk named Yamamoto Tsunetomo dictated its contents to a disciple, who later compiled his teacher's sayings into 11 volumes. Here, savor words of wisdom ...

On my father’s side, my family was Samurai. They lived in the city of Sendai in northeast ... And there, on April 30, 2013, I was tonsured a monk by His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, with the ...