warrior notes

My closest friends are warriors of all genders, who do not wear panties of submission, who go out on non-existent limbs, until the limb ma...

I told this happening to James Jay the other morning during our conversation. He suggested I write it up. so here it is. Returning from ...

Sensei Shimabuku appeared this night in vivid dream. He was strong, vibrant, eyes flashing, positive energy. He greeted me with an energy...

turb -- a head wrap, such as turban per -- completely perturbed -- to have one's head completely wrapped unperturbed -- head unwrapped,...

Memory: We lay in our bunks, six to a tier, steel rectangles with canvas laced to form a bed, if bed you could call it. Hundreds of us in th...

Aikido Sensei Koichi Tohei taught us to sit quietly, to visualize a small sphere at the core of our being, to be that sphere. With each bre...

CONDENSING -- Energy can be withdrawn to an infinitesimal core. EXPANDING -- Energy can be extended outward in all directions. CONDENSING...

"Keep one-point" is the most powerful and most essential practice taught me by a martial art teacher (Koichi Tohei). Keeping one-...

Sit comfortably. Close eyes or look at ground or floor. Breathe in through nose. Breathe out through nose. 3 times. Breathe in through no...

When the elements wanted to become an embodying, "Death became the out-breath, and entered the navel (Aitareya Upanishad). The warrior ...

There is an old story of a tiger cub found and raised by goats. The goats taught him to eat grass and to bleat. One day an old male tiger ca...

Nonlocal Mind “The atom thus became a center of the dynamic field; and since it could not be separated from the field, which perva...

What is overlooked, perhaps not even understood, is that the Marine Corps did not pay our tuition to Sensei Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Iss...

"Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the Great Void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warr...

Report on last evening's Bhagavad Gita meeting: Arjuna is on the floor of his chariot, dejected and world-weary. He asks his chariot dri...

Warrior of Spirit: A warrior is one who faces and deals. Spirit is dynamic lifeforce. A warrior of spirit is an embodying of the lifeforce f...

i am thankful for sensei tatsuo shimabuku who taught me how to kick ass efficiently and devastatingly with his isshinryu one heartmind kara...

Well, yes, it's time for another re- collection, or this one might best be termed a wreck-o-lection. Today I want to tell you ho...

From my 1961 martial arts notebook: TORA NIRAMI (Tiger Stare) Take kneeling position facing each other, give KIAI and keep all stomach musc...

We opened to the world premiere of the "Cell Phone Talk Outdoors" kata at our Wu Chi Ku gathering yesterday. Here are the moves. ...

Do you want to transform yourself? Then follow these two principles. 1. Attention directs energy. 2. Whatever you attend to, you become....

I belong to the Cosmic Fight Club. The Great Mystery is my personal trainer, oversees the whole endeavor, gives me good instruction. Rumi, m...

I am struck by how similar Wall Street, corporate powers, and their henchmen (judges and congressional cronies) are to the "sorcerers o...