1. Know that perseverance is, first of all, for but a brief period of time.
2. Know that the path of man is justice.
3. Forget the heart of greed, comfort, and discrimination (reliance).
4. To recognize sadness, worry, and resentment as natural and to seek the immovable heart (fudoushin).
5.To not stray from the path of loyalty and to delve always deeper into the heart of budo pursuing the ways of both the literary and martial arts with balanced determination.