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...

In most cases one starts the path to learn to defend themselves or to be able to see to a mission. Once one can do these things and perform the acts that one has chosen to do, why does one keep training beyond to be able to keep doing all of those things? Nin Do,...

Whether one is of the path or has any sort of training or not one will develop enemies as well as resentments or subjective injuries, this does not mean that one is seeking such, such things are a fact of living life. One must keep in mind that in spite of whatever enemies’ one has...

In the present narrative of life it is common to confuse the right to defend one’s self and one’s property with the right to a particular weapon. On the other side of the same narrative it is common to link the will to do harm with a particular weapon or even the right to defend...

One evening at the dojo a student noticed that the Master had on his desk the key text of an opposing school in the martial arts, the student asked why. The Master answered, “An opposing school in the Way is not the enemy though some students may choose to be, an opposing school is a...

In many modern schools it is taught that martial arts are for defense only but what constitutes defense? It is for each warrior to decide the answer to that question and what calls for that defense all the more so. If a warrior is aware of a threat to himself, his family or community and...

Mercy, in the western context, stems from the idea of one’s past being done away with and one is allowed to begin anew and it has a religious basis. Mercy, in an eastern context, is putting one’s self under the debt and morality of another, again to gain a second chance. In either context, mercy...

Komuso Nin Do is composed of methods and esoterica aimed at allowing the individual to endure through stealth and thus prevail. Nin is usually read as stealth but can also be read as “patience in the face of adversity” being composed of the Kanji for blade over heart. As a conjoined term or Nindo means...

Every Komuso learns the verse of the mantra which states: “Stealth our discipline; illusion our way of life” and one of the main symbols of the Silent Way is a mask i.e. no face at all. Let it be known that you use the Silent Way and most will think you are lying, a fool...

In martial arts, magick, religion, the government all things fall short at times, they do not work because of what people do or what they do not do or because someone else does or does not do something better. Mistakes happen, ill-informed actions with good intent bring about horrors and loss, it is however equally...