In a bar in New Orleans that is no longer open a young man with long hair and torn jeans sits. A cane rests by his side visible but the man makes a point to take up as little room as possible. He does not speak loudly if it all, he keeps to himself, people...

It has become expected and popular to interpret the basis for the government of the United States of America, which is a republic and not a democracy, in spite of the fact that the constitution is written in plain English. In the time when the USA was founded certain things were taken for granted as...

Many would think being crippled would bar one from being a martial artist; much less a practitioner of the Silent Way but this is not the case. In the martial arts we find entire systems based around limits of the body such as blind fighting or forms using canes as weapons. In all of these...

In the Komuso Ryu it is taught that like the self the mind has 9 aspects, one for each aspect of the self, the mind is thus seen as a tower with nine levels. Each of the levels or floors has five rooms in keeping with the five visible elements and the senses linked to...