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 decides he is ready to die, and instead of despair, what fills him is calm. Not resignation. Something closer to freedom.
We spend enormous effort avoiding the one outcome that is certain for all of us, and in the avoiding we make ourselves easy to move, easy to frighten, easy to defeat.
There is a different way to carry it, and it was shown to Hanshi in a single startling i...
TO THE READER
Two men can stand in the same place and see two different worlds. One sees walls, bars, and hard men. The other sees beauty, and means it.The difference between them is not the place. It is the seeing.
There was a man who had lost his freedom, his name, and very nearly everything else, and who could still look around a maximum security prison and call it wonderful. He was not pret...
TO THE READER
There is a comfortable place you return to without noticing. A favorite technique. A preferred side. A distance where you feel safe. You have rehearsed it for years, and it feels like mastery.
It is not mastery. It is a bubble, and you are living inside it.
The trouble with a bubble is that it feels exactly like home until the moment it fails you, and by then it is too late to lea...
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