Often one comes to martial arts with some mission in mind, a cause of some sort in which one, knowingly or not, casts one’s self as a hero. It is equally true that no matter what one does as to one’s cause, one will be cast as a villain in the eyes of someone linked...
In the same way than any sort of boast is a gift to the enemy it is equally deadly to confuse understanding with empathy or even worst agreement. To give perspective let us consider the moon and the serpent, each is a symbol of transformation but one shows actual renewal, the serpent, and the other...
The path is perfection because it partakes in a reality of ideals and absolutes. The path does not concern the paths of others or the strengths or weaknesses of those on its or others paths. The path, in the ideal, does not mind circumstance because it has an answer as to what will, or should,...
There will be times when people and ideals fail, due to weakness, circumstance or ill planning and it is in failure that discipline takes the form of devotion and it is devotion that answers weakness, circumstance or ill planning. When people fail the truth of the path is constant and endures, when ideals fail the...
