Kosho Chronicles Issue #15 To the Reader Every time I sat down with Mitose's manuscript, I hit the same wall. He was writing about God, about Christ, about Buddha, about religion. I am a martial artist. I wanted combat strategy. I wanted the keys to the art. Instead, I got philosophy wrapped in t...

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 har...

Kosho Chronicles Issue #9 To the Reader The hardest part of learning from Mitose was not learning from Mitose. It was coming back to my school and trying to explain what I had learned to my students. Every visit to the prison gave me something new. Every class I taught afterward felt like trying ...

Kosho Chronicles Issue #5 To the Reader I told you the manuscript was a riddle. That Mitose wrote it using religion and politics to hide the martial arts. That he said it was his duty to teach me everything in that book. This issue begins the teaching. The first thing Mitose explained to me from ...