Wednesday, June 01, 2005

chapter five: potential energy

Master Sun said:

Managing many
Is the same as
Managing a few;
It is question of
Division.

Fighting with many
Is the same as
Figthing with few;
It is a matter of
Marshaling men
With gongs,
Identifying them
With flags.

With a combination of
Indirect and
Direct,
An army
Can hold off the enemy
Undefeated.

With an understanding of
Weakness and
Strength,
An army
Can strike
Like a milestone
Cast at an egg.


- taken from Sun-Tzu: "The Art of War", translated by JOHN MINFORD


p/s:"With an understanding of weakness and strength, An army can strike like a milestone cast at an egg.".......through my conversation with others and my personal experience (where i know that i still need to learn more), human's look forward to understand their strength rather than their weaknesses...and look forward to understand their enemy weaknesses rather than the strength......