“Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Everyday when one's body and mind are at peace one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves being thrown into the midst of a great fire being, struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand foot clifs, dying of a disease or commiting seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead.”