These are the levels in general;. But there is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is
aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way
arid never thinks of himself as having finished. He truly knows
his own insufficiencies and never in his whole life thinks that
he has succeeded. He has no thoughts of pride but with selfabasement knows the Way to the end. It is said that Master
Yagyu once remarked, “I do not know the way to defeat others,
but the way to defeat myself.”