by rmgadmin | Apr 30, 2026 | Uncategorized, writings
A few students over the years have approached me with a calendar in one hand and a measuring stick in the other and silently or overtly asked, “When will I advance?” Few ask, “Where am I standing now?” In the old ways, rank was not pursued—because it was not a...
by rmgadmin | Mar 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
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by rmgadmin | Sep 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I practice karate as a form of yoga. This was not at all my focus when I was a teenager. And I suspect not many people would even understand what it means to practice a martial discipline in this manner.So I’d like to clarify my statement. The essence of yoga is a...
by rmgadmin | Aug 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
‘Mindfulness’ is trending but are we missing the bigger picture?MANY KINDS OF MEDITATION, NOT JUST ONEfrom an article by Jay Michaelson“Lama Surya Das, the "Buddha from Brooklyn,” is one of the handful of Westerners who have been teaching meditation...
by rmgadmin | Jul 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
One thing that I have come know in my forty-six years of teaching is that you can never know definitively who is right or who is wrong about a physical art like karate in a purely academic arena. In other words, talk can be cheap and it can also be misleading. The...
