by rmgadmin | Jun 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
CHRONICLES OF THE DOKA Part 7 in a continuing series Life can be lived fully, either on the inside and/or the outside of your skin. Those who live mostly on the outside are considered ‘Hard’ stylists. Those who choose the interior abode are the ‘Soft’, or Internal...
by rmgadmin | May 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
CHRONICLES OF THE DOKA Part 6 in a continuing series This is a leisurely chronicle of my teaching journey from January to March of 1999. I recorded hundreds of daily teaching events throughout this time period. As a sensei, I’ve assumed the task of...
by rmgadmin | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
PART 4 IN A CONTINUING SERIES I was a partially blind teenager. That is, I had come to the awareness that I had little, conscious spiritual sight. Yet, by contrast, I somehow intuited that we are all born with the light inside us. It just didn’t lie near enough at my...
by rmgadmin | Jan 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
PART 2 IN A CONTINUING SERIES I taught four hundred and twenty classes over an eighty-four day period beginning January 13, 1999. During that time, I engaged slightly over three hundred students a week. Seventy-five percent of the nation’s professional martial arts’...
by rmgadmin | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
KATA AS MOVING MEDITATION Martial arts students often here about kata as a ‘moving meditation.’ This essay brings to light what this means in the context of Buddhist martial kata practice. The following was an essay written by the late Buddhist Scholar, Nagaboshi...
