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Front matter
Part I — Ground of Practice
Part II — The Principles
Chapter 4
Ikigai: The Reason You Continue
Chapter 5
Oubaitori: Individual Timing and the End of Comparison
Chapter 6
Kaizen: Compounding Refinement
Chapter 7
Ganbaru: Effort Without Emotional Bargaining
Chapter 8
Wabi-Sabi: Usable Imperfection
Chapter 9
Shoshin: Beginner's Mind After Many Years
Chapter 10
Mushin: Action Without Clinging
Chapter 11
Zanshin: Remaining Mind
Chapter 12
Fudoshin: The Immovable Mind
Chapter 13
Gaman: Endurance With Dignity
Part III — The Dojo Operating System
Part IV — Living the Principles
Part V — The Twelve-Week Plan
Part VI — Exercises and Tools
Appendices and closing
Part VII — Deeper Applications
Chapter 29
Chapter 29 — Fear as Waveform, Not Identity
Chapter 30
Chapter 30 — Pain, Injury, and the Honest Edge
Chapter 31
Chapter 31 — Recovery as Discipline, Not Collapse
Chapter 32
Chapter 32 — Rank, Recognition, and Quiet Afterglow
Chapter 33
Chapter 33 — Lineage: What You Inherit and What You Owe
Chapter 34
Chapter 34 — Returning to Begin Again