Kosho Reflections Issue #4: In Weakness There Is Strength
Apr 06, 2026
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To the Reader
You have been taught to be strong. To overcome. To dominate.
What if that teaching is incomplete?
The Teaching
In weakness there is strength. In strength there is weakness.
This is not wordplay. This is natural law. You cannot have hard without soft. You cannot have soft without hard. The hard, the soft, the Kyo, the Jitsu, the Yin, the Yang. They are both necessary. You cannot have one without the other because if you do, you have no balance.
The purpose of Kosho Ryu Kempo is to understand balance. Learn to create it. Learn to disrupt it. From there, you can throw an opponent off, control an opponent, or destroy an opponent.
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...
Kosho Chronicles Issue #20
To the Reader
The void is something that is nothing. And something that is nothing can be everything.
Sit with that for a moment before you read any further. If it makes sense to you right away, you are not thinking deeply enough.
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Kosho Chronicles Issue #19
To the Reader
You could never touch Mitose. He always touched you.
I watched this happen over and over. Someone would reach for him, try to grab him, try to strike. And he was never there. Not because he was fast. Because he was already somewhere else before they started.
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