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26/08/2026

"Never Let Go"

Children dog the heels of their parents. They are always clamoring for one thing or another, always underfoot, never letting us alone. Sometimes they can be an embarrassment, but we still dote on them. They make us happy; we never want to let them go.

The products we make ourselves, the goods we sell, the work we do, too, can be hard to part with; we are reluctant to just send them off, hand them over, and move on to the next thing in purely business-like fashion. If we are serious about manufacturing, conscientious about sales, and truly passionate about our work, we want to know what happens to our products, our merchandise, and the results of our work.

We not only want to know what happens to them but to follow them ever afterwards, to keep up with them on and on. For a kitchen appliance, we would like to tag along into the customer’s kitchen; for a heater or an air conditioner, we would want to step into the person’s living room; for an automobile, we would try to follow them onto the roads of other countries – always eager to know their fate: Is it working well? Does it need adjustment or tuning or repair? Are there problems or shortcomings? Even if it might be a bit bothersome, the consumer would be happy and grateful to know that the manufacturer is concerned about its products, that it is serious and sincere in its after-service.
This is the spirit, at least, in which we should try to make things, sell things, and perform services.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

24/08/2026

"Reading the Signs"

When you go to a rifle range, there is a monitor on duty who raises a flag every time you shoot. Depending on the position of the flag, you can tell at a glance whether you hit or missed, and whether your shot was off to the right or to the left. Correcting your aim accordingly, you try again. Practicing with the flag as your corrective, you can gradually improve. If the monitor weren’t there, calling your shots, you could shoot a hundred shots and be firing into the dark, never knowing how effective your aim was and never improving your marksmanship.

Come to think of it, in the course of our work every day, there are in fact many such flags – figuratively speaking – being waved at us, offering us guidance and showing us how we are doing. Numbers are among the more visible examples of such signs, but there are also many that are invisible.

By identifying the invisible signs and carefully tallying the results of our work each day, our work will surely improve, drawing on the valuable accumulation of each day.

Our days are invariably busy, but we should train ourselves strictly to keep an eye not only on visible signs, but the invisible ones that tell us how we are doing.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

21/08/2026

"Establishing Discipline"

You get up in the morning, wash your face, and perform your morning rituals. Your family joins you. Your day begins with a simple and sincere moment of reflection. In the evening, you repeat the ritual. It need be nothing formal, but by observing a set order of events each morning and evening, you establish a rhythm and routine in your life. A certain degree of regularity is important in what ever we do. A life without any sort of regular rhythm falls into inertia – there is no motivation to work, no time set aside for good ideas to emerge, and good things are lost.

The same goes in business and in management. An enterprise run without rules and regularity will, in due course, collapse. It may hold up all right in good times, but will topple quickly in case of recession. Just as the strongest embankment can collapse if it is full of ant’s tunnels, a big enterprise without rigor and rules will cave in. by establishing some rules in the small things in life, we can cultivate the resilience and strength to succeed in big things.

Discipline is important in cultivating rigor and regularity. We should strive to acquire discipline in daily life, for it serves us personally and prevents us from inconveniencing others.

We should do our best to discipline ourselves and establish a life with rhythm and routine.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

19/08/2026

"Careful and Quick"

Work that is done carefully, meticulously – checking and rechecking and completed to the finest detail – is always important. Nothing great can be achieved if the small things are left untended. We should strive to give our closest attention to the details of a task, however minor.

To do a job with such extreme care that completion takes an excessive amount of time, however, may not be what is called for. For the artisans of old, time was in ample supply; they took pride rather in producing work of great perfection. In the premodern era, the finely worked results of an artisan’s most painstaking skill were highly prized. Today, time is money; the value of every minute, every second, is valued and counted. Doing a job and making the customer happy, therefore, means not only doing meticulous and careful work, but doing it as fast as it can possibly be done.

Neither fast and sloppy nor meticulous and slow is permitted. The master of work for today is one who can perform a job with care, but quickly.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

17/08/2026

"Better Ways of Working"

Work that brings sweat to the brow is important and should be valued. But to toil away, sweating forever and ever, is not smart. It is like walking a distance of 200 kilometers, as people were forced to do long ago, when you can take the train. In the course of history, people shifted from walking to being carried in palanquins and then riding in carriages, then in trains and finally to flying in airplanes. Gradually they ceased using their own legs to get places. In these shifts from one form of transport to the next, we can see the advance of human progress.

The worker who puts in an hour longer than anyone else is praiseworthy and should be valued as serious and hardworking. But a person who works an hour less than previously but whose output has increased – that person, too, is praiseworthy, and the difference represents progress in the way people work.

Innovation is vital. Creativity and inventiveness are crucial. Hard work is precious but we should strive to innovate and improve on the way we work. We applaud those who do the physical labor but also those who use their brainpower and technology to get the job done. It is not a question of slacking off or raking it easy. We should always strive to develop easier ways to work if it improves our productivity.
Innovation generates prosperity for society.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

14/08/2026

"The Meaning of Your Work"

Any kind of work is valuable if it is needed by society. If an activity is not sought after by people in society, it does not qualify as “work”. The shoe-shiner was a successful business as long as there were people on the streets who decided that they wanted their shoes shined then and there. Without such people, that kind of job would not have come into being.

We cannot indulge ourselves with the notion that our work is something we are doing for ourselves. Rather, it is something that we are asked to do by society. Therein lies the meaning of work.

A person who is devoted to and enthusiastic about his or her work may be able to exercise some say regarding the way it is done, but if it is forgotten that the work being done is for society, it could be reduced to something selfish done only for someone’s personal interest and gain. How the job someone performs grows and evolves is up to society. We should develop our work naturally, in the directions sought by society.

What matters most is to pursue the tasks that society has given us to carry out, conscientiously, humbly, and carefully. We should strive to respond to the demands of society with all our might. We should always be mindful of the meaning of our work.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

12/08/2026

"The Silver Lining"

In the long course of our lives, not everything happiness and light. If there were no hardships and no worries and life went along in a pleasantly tranquil manner, all would be well, but ordinarily that is not the way things go. Over and over we face disappointment, desperation, and crises that stretch us to the limit.

These times in extremely are part of life. Only in distress, sometimes, do we realize for the first time the profundity of life; only in crisis do we finally perceive the richness of our social web.

Understanding things intellectually is valuable, but firsthand experience van be even more important: you cannot know the taste of salt by reading about it in a book. We acquire knowledge in various ways.

Being pushed to an extreme can be seen as an invaluable opportunity to learn, body and soul. Such opportunities are rare and precious. Looking at hardship from this perspective can give us courage even in the most difficult of situations. It can give us renewed energy. New insight grows out of the change in our thinking that results. Misfortune becomes fortune. Behind the dark cloud we see the silver lining and feel a sense of renewal. The way opens up for us to rediscover our strength and forge onward.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

10/08/2026

"The Wisdom of One"
Even for the brightest and the best informed, there are limits to the wisdom at the command of one individual. Despite those limitations, we have to make our way through the long years of our lives, and inevitably we stumble a bit here, meander a bit there.

As long as we are responsible only for ourselves, some ineptitude may take cause little trouble for others. But inasmuch as we are part of society – in which many people are closely interlinked – a misjudgment or miscalculation on our part could hurt or inconvenience others. If we risk causing trouble for others, it is surely better not to rely solely on our own wisdom.

We should be quick to ask about what we do not understand or what we do not know. Even if we think we understand, sometimes it is wise to ask again, for another point of view.

“The wider your perspective the less you will wander; the more attentively you listen the less you will wander,” goes the old saying. No matter what sort of person yo0u are dealing with, if you are humble and respectful, you can gain unanticipated knowledge from the encounter. The wisdom of one becomes the wisdom of two. And this effect is duplicated: the wisdom of three and so on. This is how collective wisdom is formed.

We should strive to put out minds together with others rather than attempting to get along with but the wisdom of one.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

07/08/2026

"The Way Things Should Be"

As life becomes less settled and people are caught up in the competition and the high pace of change, the grass begins to seem greener in other people’s gardens. While we are toiling away, assiduously and seriously, others seem to get rich wherever they turn and to be taking it easy while making money hand over fist. We think we ought to be able to get lucky like that just once.

But that is not the way the world works. Human nature being what it is, we cannot be blamed for being tempted into thinking we can find a short-cut to wealth and happiness, but in truth such notions are illusory. To think that there is an easy way is to delude ourselves, for there is no other way than to work one step at a time, steadily and surely, toward your goal.

To think that anyone rakes in money effortlessly is native. Some people may experience a windfall of this sort, but the situation usually does not last long. Easy money does not last. Ultimately, the cases of people winning easy money tend to be flukes, and do not follow what we know to be common wisdom. To count on things going against common sense is simply greedy.

Greed is indeed the root of failure, to be avoided at all costs. We are safer heading steadily along the natural and sensible path.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

05/08/2026

"Hard and Rigid Is Bad"

If you huddle rigidly in a confined place, your legs will soon ache and become numb. Your body becomes cramped and moves with difficulty. Lacking the capacity for refined manners may be a problem, but being rigid is worse. We should strive to maintain a capacity for creativity and free and easy movement.

Rigidity is bad whatever the context. Physical rigidity is not healthy, but mental inflexibility is worse. When the mind ceases to be supple, it no longer provides useful answers.

There are various ways of looking at things, and there is no one way that is always valid and correct. We have to be able to adjust our perspectives depending on the rime and the situation or place.

When our minds become hardened, we lose this capacity to shift our perspective. We adhere to a single viewpoint and that limits our freedom of movement and judgment; we can become stuck in one place. When that happens we cannot hope to achieve new growth or development.

The myriad things of the world are different every day; they are constantly changing. Their appearance today is different from how they looked yesterday. We are part of this process of change; we have to constantly adjust to meet the new perspectives of each day.

We should encourage each other to avoid rigidity and open up our minds to see things clearly and think flexibly.

From the book "THE PATH" by Konosuke Matsush*ta
https://konosuke-matsush*ta.com/en/

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