* do not intend to rely on anything*
The third of the twenty one tenets of "The Way of Walking Alone".
This is a tenet that I am definitely applying in my life and have been for quite some time… or at least… as Musashi eloquently notes… intending to.
Do not intend to rely on anything. Relying on himself for his entire life, Musashi gives us a very direct and easy to understand tenet that most have trouble with. In our society, dependency and co-dependency are so rampant and in the norm that we come to rely on everyone and everything around us. As a whole, we are afraid to be alone, afraid to have no one and nothing. We search and search and search and take unreasonable risks and chances why? To rely on someone?
What is the adage, that everything in life changes? That nothing stays the same? If this is time tested and age old true… why would you WANT to rely on anything. It is only a matter of an undisclosed countdown until it goes away or until you can no longer rely on it… and that is the best case scenario. I won't even touch the betrayal and pain that can come from this sort of thing.
In this way, I believe that Musashi is trying to show us that our strength should come from the inside. That our happiness should be inborn. That our direction in life should come from personal ambition and not from chasing something that we want to be dependant on
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