Stance Without Stance
Musashi's Way Through an Unsettled WorldBy Michael T. McCracken
Length6h 44m
About this audiobook
Stance Without Stance takes the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi at his word, drawing only on what he actually wrote and rendering his passages freshly from the original Japanese. It follows the arc of his thinking, from the concrete skills of attention and discipline, through the conduct of a whole working life, to the cleared mind and acceptance of death he reached at the end. Along the way it tests his ideas against the conditions we live in now: the war for our attention, the fantasy of the shortcut, the anger that masquerades as strength, the grasping that strangles what it means to protect. Musashi was a solitary, difficult man, and this book does not pretend otherwise. But what he learned alone serves everyone.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Philosophy
Length6 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
11Chapter Seven
2Introduction
12Chapter Eight
3Movement One
13Movement Three
4Chapter One
14Chapter Nine
5Chapter Two
15Chapter Ten
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6Chapter Three
16Chapter Eleven
7Chapter Four
17Conclusion
8Movement Two
18The Dokkodō
9Chapter Five
19A Note on the Sources
10Chapter Six
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