Peace is too often confused with the idea of comfort and many seek to maintain what they are comfortable with and call it peace. Others assume what they desire or would will to be best and thus peace; certainty of any kind should be cause to question one’s self. What many seek as peace is...

While there are nine types of movement in combat with the final type being a throw a throw can come from any of the eight other movement types. Each of the eight movement types can be applied from any of the eight directions in the circle of combat north, east, south, west and the cross...

Wind, water, fire, earth, wood, metal, jewel and matter these are the elemental manifestations of energy whose interaction create and sustain said energy, creation out of entropy as energy slows down to become the elements. The elements interact and create tension through which energy is released in order to maintain the balance of the elements....

Chi, which is the Chinese word for earth, is external life force composed of Yin and Yang which is usually found in breath. Ki is personal power generated from the individual and fueled by Chi when taken into the individual and refined. When one breathes, one takes in Chi, one is also opening one’s aura...

The war for independence in the USA had many causes but the trigger point for many was a tax on tea. What would the war have been like had the crown tried to tax or dictate what the founders ate or fix how much wealth they could have looking at what they did over a...

Part of the Kuroi Kaze or “black wind” is hearing and trusting the voice of the wind which is the mind’s translation of the dual Om-Mo of the Kokoro that is the voice of the true self. The voice of the true self will always guide one toward the possible outcome that is in line...

The mind must be structured enough to know what feeds the individual and what does not while being accepting of the fact that what feeds or not one is not the same for all. The mind must not be so attached to what feeds the individual that if its current is not always present or...

For many years of this life I have pursued a few goals all part of the greater goal that I defined as my “way.” In terms of combat this has taking the guise of use of the elemental techniques of fire using those of water and wind to create fire in the form of lightning...