What I am about to share may disturb you. It may challenge everything you think you know about mastery, perfection, and what it means to be a martial artist.
Good.
If you are not disturbed, you are not paying attention.
The Teaching
There is a saying in Zen Buddhism:
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.”
Most people hear this and think it is nonsense. Or blasphemy. Or some kind of riddle meant to confuse.
It is none of those things.
It is one of the most important teachings you will ever receive.
TO THE READER
There is a particular kind of help that arrives from a direction you were not watching. It comes from someone who owes you nothing, who belongs to a different camp, who has no stake in whether you succeed.
When that help comes, most people are suspicious of it. They start looking for the angle. What does he want? What is this going to cost me?Sometimes the answer is nothing. Somet...
TO THE READER
Most people, when they love something, protect it from the truth. They build a version of the story that flatters them, and then they defend it for the rest of their lives.
There is another way to go about it, and it is much harder. You go looking for the people who can tell you that you are wrong. You invite the correction. You want it.
To understand James Mitose honestly, this i...
TO THE READER
A man sat in a prison cell for a crime he did not commit. He could have said so. The truth was on his side, and there were people willing to fight for him.He did not fight. He told the people around him that he was guilty. He said it plainly, and he let the verdict stand.
Hanshi has spent more than fifty years trying to understand that decision. Most people, hearing it, assume the...
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