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Samurai practiced it because they thought it would give them inner peace & aid them in battle. The work of some artists were influenced by simplicity & boldness.

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Both samurai and artists are attracted to Zen's training in instantaneous appreciation of the whole and the total commitment to action once initiated. For the samurai this allowed immediate response to an attack without the need for review of either tactics or the delay of examining the morality of the situation, for artists it allowed the commitment to create the artwork without error once the image was in the mind.

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