A Mason's Work

So in the next part of our podcast, we're talking about the wind book in the book of

Vibringes by Mia Muno-Mosashi and how it parallels the Freemasonry.

So from a symbolic perspective, let's talk about the content of the book first and then

we'll talk about the symbolic stuff.

So first things first, the wind book of the book of Vibringes is all about evaluating some

of the shortcomings and challenges of the other schools.

And in the process of evaluating what the other schools of martial arts do, people with

longer swords, people with shorter swords, people with different kinds of techniques that

are, they emphasize as part of their kind of mystery school as it were.

But the thing to walk away with from the wind scroll is all of those things and probably

including Misashi's own school regarding the long sword is all, if you're focusing on

the techniques, you're focusing on the wrong thing.

And so when we talk about that from a Masonic context, really talking about the temple,

the temple is the objective of our craft.

It is the meaning of our work.

It is the thing we are creating to try and be better to build towards all of those things.

The temple represents that meaningful outcome.

In the context of Misashi's work, he refers to it as killing some dude or what have you.

So as it goes, when we talk about, when you read the book of Vibringes, every time he's

talking about killing somebody, replace that with building the temple.

It's the same sort of idea, right?

This is where all of the symbolism actually kind of swap out your mythos here and rinse

and repeat and all starts to sound the same, which is why we can do parallels between

the Masonic work and Misashi stuff.

So in the context of the temple, we're really talking about making sure that you don't

let the outside world interfere with the objective.

You don't let somebody's latest razzle dazzle technique kind of throw you for a loop when

it comes to evaluating the objective.

And so we talked about this a little bit in a bunch of the other schools and a bunch of

their scrolls of Misashi's work because he is so hyper vigilant on the focus on the

outcome.

But he focuses on the sort of different levels, right?

So in the first book, he's really focused on the fundamentals.

This is what you focus on as a baseline set of skills.

In the second book, it's like focusing on learning the rhythm and the movement of the

battle so you can further hone your art.

And in the third book, he's really talking about making sure that you stay focused on

all of the little things you need to do to make sure that you win the battle.

And in the win book, he's really eliminating the sort of emphasis on the trivialities that

come up.

And so when you are working through this on your own, the big sort of takeaway when you're

reading Misashi's work and connecting it to Freemasonry is really the hyper focus.

And when we talk about the next book, you'll really kind of see where this kind of all

comes together.

But for our present purpose, the temple is really the place to spend your time and attention.

So when you're looking at the other kind of solutions in life, when you're looking at

the other solutions, perhaps in your day to day, there's going to be tons of things that

seem to point to the right answer, to point to the right objective that we're going to

help you achieve your goal.

A lot of those magic pill solutions aren't going to work because they are focusing on the

wrong thing.

They're not focused on you helping achieve your goal.

They're focused on selling you that magic solution.

And in the same way, as you're evaluating kind of your cognitive processes, it's really

easy to pick the easy to grab onto concepts, the easy to grab onto, linchpin idea as if

that's going to be the keystone that you're looking for.

And the reality is the work is the work.

It's always been the same.

It always will be the same.

The right behavior is going to get you the right outcomes.

Don't stray from your path.

Don't stray from the work.

Keep your attention.

You're going to always focus on that end objective and you will find that you'll get

to where you want to go.

And so that's the wind book in the book of five rings.

And in our next episode, we'll get to probably the most exciting book in the hole or the

most exciting scroll in the whole book.

And so we'll see you for that next time.