warrior notes

For all things born in truth must die, and out of death in truth comes life. Face to face with what must be, cease thou from sorrow. -- Cha...

25. Invisible is he to mortal eyes, beyond thought and beyond change. Know that he is, and cease from sorrow. -- Chapter 2, verse 25, The Bh...

This earth is a testing ground for each soul's powers. Questions for reflection -- What are your powers and how are you doing?

Blessed are those whose sanctified butts sit on righteous pews of holiness. For long moments they forget they are urine and shit-filled bags...

Zen sword is sharp . Begging bowl is open. These old bones laugh. Cutting right through. Receiving all that comes. No clinging.

Hey! I have a great idea! Why not punch holes in the earth under the oceans? That way we can get the goop we need to fuel our war machines a...

Clarence Ewing, Tatsuo Shimabuku (Founder of Isshinryu Karate), and George Breed, Agena, Okinawa, 1960

19. If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither know the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Etern...

Excellent Zing Tao! gathering last night. We practiced Centering and Opening, Hands Attaching, Flowers Blooming in Footsteps, Weight Undersi...

My buddy Clarence (Hindu) Ewing sent this interview to me (part of an excellent series of interviews with first-generation students of Sens...

Words read either pound the heart, rile the bile, bolster the guts, excite the bite or slide past the eyes with limpid greasy ease.

Most all of us have developed a self image over the years. Deliberate fabrication, haphazard amalgamation, the self image is a bubble we mai...

The unreal never is: the Real never is not. This truth indeed has been seen by those who can see the true. Interwoven in his creation, the S...

Pluck out the Buddha eye and sit in its hollow! -- Dogen If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out! -- Jesus At some point, the eye of our sp...

From the world of the senses, Arjuna, comes heat and comes cold, and pleasure and pain. They come and they go: they are transient. Arise abo...

In the world of blame I gnaw on my enemy’s skull I bite off his nose I spit it in his face I am a devil from hell I wake up and say No I ...

One thing is always changing into another thing. Do not make the mistake of thinking there is an "out there." The changling and th...

Of the nine principles and practices of the martial and all other relationship arts, centering and opening are the two most important. The o...

As the Spirit of our mortal body wanders on in childhood, and youth and old age, the Spirit wanders on to a new body: of this the Sage has n...

Krishna smiled and spoke to Arjuna -- there between the two armies the voice of God spoke these words: -- Chapter 2, verse 10, The Bhagavad...

Arjuna and Krishna continue their conversation. Krishna has invited Arjuna to "arise like a fire that burns all before it." But Ar...

We left Arjuna crumpled down in his vehicle (our body is our vehicle, our chariot) "overcome by despair and grief." But Arjuna was...

Arjuna stands in his chariot between the two armies. He looks at them and sees his kin and is overwhelmed. Then Arjuna saw in both armies fa...

I will begin the study here of one of the greatest warrior stories ever written or told -- the story of Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita (The So...

This needs no commentary on my part -- "The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations -- ...

A long-time buddy of fierce spirit and generous nature sent this: Samurai Mind Training for American Troops The program reminds me of Richar...

Yesterday a person reminded me in our conversation of the zen story of the dude/dudess hanging by a decaying root jutting out of a cliff fac...

We are a gateless gate between the outer infinity and the inner infinity. Our "duty" is to remain gateless between these two infin...

7 X's down, 8 X's up!

One of the problems I have with "modern" medicine (is it post-modern now? I can't keep up with our designations of our era. Ho...

The experiential act of condensing is different from that of contracting. In contracting, one freezes up, loses the freedom of one's bod...

A physics teacher in the class asked: "Light waves and sound waves can be expressed by formulas. Can ki be expressed by a formula? Do y...

Talk: "Some think there is no fighting in aikido. In aikido, you do not allow others to control you. Keep control of yourself through t...

Exercises: The "two-point," middle of the forehead, third eye is the focus for many. Put your mind at the two-point and allow part...

After warmups, we paired off and taught each other the basic principles of ki. Sensei listened and made corrections as needed. At the clap o...

Notes from one of Tohei Sensei's 1974 talks -- Breathing and meditation -- You can't chase two rabbits at once and catch one. Eithe...

In the summer of 1974, I was fortunate in attending a six-week training in Ki Development taught by Sensei Koichi Tohei . I had been practic...

If this snail sets out for the top of Fuji surely he will get there Unified in spirit what cannot be accomplished? -- Tesshu (Click for clos...

A gentleman from Okinawa asked for any pics of me in uniform. This is it other than what I have already posted. (1) Parris Island (2) Me, my...

You do not want to get in between two people quarreling. Unless you are an idiot or a saint (the two are not all that different). A person i...

" Radical Openness is above all not a self-help book, although that, as a retired university psychologist and talented psychotherapis...

The bodhisattva, having taken the vow to not enter Nirvana until all have entered, now sees that all have already always been in Nirvana, an...

Breathe in to your heart area. When breathing out, breathe down and inside to your balance point. From Warrior of Spirit Handbook

Like our cousins the trees, we root and ground while spreading our branches to the cosmos. From Warrior of Spirit Handbook

Do you know why we suffer? It is because we are coagulated; we believe in certainty. As Francisco Varela has put it, we create a world, ...

The best armor a Warrior of Spirit can wear is no armor at all. With heart wide open, one walks through hell unscathed. When totally open, t...

When the going gets tough, the tough get calmer. From Warrior of Spirit Handbook , George Breed

From Trevor Leggett, Zen and the Ways . (Click for closeup) The warrior, the horse, the pursuing enemy, the precipice, the rushing torrent....

Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply. I...

I continue to write the story of the warrior Stagger Li and his journey to Hell to recover his lost innocence, a small child held captive i...

" The hero observed that swamp-thing from hell, the tarn-hag in all her terrible strength, then heaved his war-sword and swung his arm:...

Idly amusing myself the other day while sitting in Heritage Square in downtown Flagstaff where all us geezers and geeks hang out while othe...

As Warriors of Spirit, we follow a path of integrity. We continuously endeavor to live in accord with the principles of generosity, lovingki...

We live a surface life, but within us and around us is the Deep. The Deep, both which we are and which we fear, manifests through us and as ...

"If you are prepared to cut open your belly, you can shave your head." -- Suzuki Shosan, Warrior of Zen

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1) Japan Landing We had already driven our radio jeeps off the LST. So I got...

The sea creates a sense of smallness and a deep sense of calm -- 1) DeSoto 2) Ewing (Hindu) Endless waiting for Japan to appear ...

Altruism's Bloody Roots "By favoring acts of battlefield selflessness, Stone Age warfare might have accelerated the development of ...

From Top to Bottom -- 1) Malone, DeSoto, Ewing 2) The Boys 3) Our New Home, LST 854 4) Rocking & Rolling 5) Barf Barrel 6) Barfing Virtu...

The over-arching consciousness mode of this era (which according to some is ending -- we are thinking in centuries here, not in years) is co...

The alchemists did us all a service. Not only did they help give birth to present-day chemistry, they gave us something of equal, if not mor...

1. Keep one-point . Not only does this refer to moving from and practicing maintaining one's physical center of balance, it also means t...

Sensei Koichi Tohe i presented this Ki Sayings booklet to those of us at his 1974 summer training camp in Fullerton, California. I may pres...

I wrote the following in a format inspired by the writing of a 14th century unknown Samurai. I have no home. The universe is my home. I have...

Ready to catch the Agena bus to the dojo.

Austin, James. (1999) Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness . MIT Press. Breed, George. (2004) Embodyin...