Life goes on whether any individual is a part of it or not, whether any individual is aware of its self or not life goes on, even if only as a memory or an echo. Given the nature of life to be alive and for that life to be self aware is a gift that...

In popular myth the Shaolin are marked by the tiger as the king of the world and the dragon as the symbol of heaven. Between heaven and Earth all are said to live and strive toward perfection in all things. In the Komuso Ryu the tiger is again the symbol of the world, the world...

In the lexicon of the: Komuso Ryu we find as the name of the bone bridge that leads to the Kokoro or Heart of all things Kanfa which means view or perspective. Kokoro also means intention, energy, spirit and the center. Perspective is the bridge to one’s intention which is the center, one’s own spirit....

In the Komuso Ryu the Kokoro containing the Tao of this world and its reflex, the heart of all things, is represented by a black dragon beneath the sea of infinity. The dragon is said to have on its scales the 72 glyphs of the I Ching, eight trigrams and 64 hexagrams, whose movement influences...