* do not complain or feel bitterly about yourself or others*
The ninth of the twenty one tenets of "The Way of Walking Alone".
Complaining. Bitterness. These seem to be specialties that are served in grande masse in this life and by those that live it.
What is complaining? Commentary about something that one will do nothing about? This is often the case with people that have little ambition or ability to change what is going on that they feel they should complain about. There are some that can finely walk the line of stating something and complaining about it. Why is it so hard to do? Emotion. Being able to distance oneself from the emotion of something, and thereby being able to act upon it rationally and with clear intent and motive is the mark of someone who, in most instance, will not simply let fate walk on, dragging them along for the ride.
Being so concerned with others is another area this tenet hits upon. Wasting all the time and energy needing to know about others, their life and lifestyle, their comings and goings and complaining about what they do that you don't like and being bitter about the things they have that you don't and so on and so forth. Why? What is the purpose?
In this way, I believe the Musashi is trying to keep of from walking a path that will cause us to be bitter and to fill our days with useless fretting and complaining. He himself would be apt at just solving whatever problem he had, with a quiet mind and stable mentality, offering little in the way of commentary, outside of simple statements of facts, and only where he was concerned. As with everything you can infer about Musashi, he preferred to direct his energies into things more useful and productive, such as a better way of killing someone.
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