Grand Rising, good afternoon, good evening, good night. Whatever applies to you. Thank you for being here.

We are doing the 11th principle of the do-kido today. I am currently working on my setup. See the table back there. I bought that so that I put stuff on it. And now that I've got it back there, I don't think I like it. And I know that my big ass head covers a whole lot of that table. So at some point today, I get to come back here and set all this up. But it's early in the morning as I do these in the morning and I didn't get that

done yesterday. So you guys get to look at the weird table. Now that that's out of the way,

let's jump into the 11th principle. And all things have no preference. Preference creates attachment.

Attachments creates vulnerability. You should value adaptability over comfort

and responsiveness over rigidity. This is one of the most misunderstood lines in the do-kido.

On the surface, it sounds unrealistic, cold, even boring. It can sound like Musashi is telling

you to stop enjoying anything, to stop caring, to stop choosing. That's not what this

principle is saying. It's not a rejection of enjoyment or preference. It's a warning against

dependence. The issue is not liking things. The issue is needing things to be a certain way

in order to be steady. When comfort becomes a requirement, strength erodes. When conditions

become non-negotiable, adaptability disappears,

but preference becomes a problem when it turns into attachment. Preference is hard and faster than

people realize. What starts as liking quietly turns into needing. Needing turns into expectation,

expectation turns into entitlement, and entitlement turns into frustration in the moment because reality refuses to comply.

This is how people become rigid without noticing it.

They don't suffer because life is difficult.

They suffer because life doesn't match their internal script that they've become attached to.

Every unmet preference becomes a disruption. Every deviation

becomes personal. Every inconvenience feels like a violation. This is absolute like weakness to me.

The more you outsource to the external for your internal peace, the less likely you are to ever have it.

Peace doesn't come from getting what you prefer. It comes from

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