Introduction    1

What Is The Art of War?    11
The Text and Tradition of the Sun Tzu

View, Practice, and Action    30
A Framework for Understanding the Sun Tzu

The Big View    60
How the Sun Tzu Teaches Us to See the World
        Interconnectedness    65
        Conflict    71
        Taking Whole    76
        Knowing    80
        Victory    86

The Basic Practice    90
Employing Shih
        Shih: What Is It?    94
        Employing Shih in the World    112
        Summary and Examples    129

Strategic Practices    139
        Extraordinary and Orthodox    141
        Forming and Transforming    153
        Deception    168
        More Ways of Employing Shih    177
        Summary of Practice    184

Action    186
Stories of Applying the Sun Tzu in the World

How to Enter This Wisdom Lineage    222
        The Art of War: The Denma Translation    236

Acknowledgments    277
Notes    279
Index    281