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Mental food for conscious growth. It is possible to learn from and integrate the teachings from one or many sources without identifying a sense of self with the...m. It is said that all true spiritual teachings are simply fingers pointing to the transcendent truth. If we hold on to the Dogma, the truth for comfort will be stunted in our spiritual evolution. tenraiseishitsudojo.com Brooklyn, Ny Springfield, Ma

Budo Intuition: Punch and Kick drill applying Ushiro aruki to kick at close range. Tenrai school of Brooklyn, Ny & Springfield, Ma tenraiseishitsudojo.com

Mental food for conscious growth: You have to realize that you that is the authentic source of the reflection. Once you realize the authentic self, it doesn't m...ean that anything on the outside necessarily needs to change. What changes is the conscious intelligent inner energy or Prana, which is freed from condition patterns and becomes available to be directed by the soul. tenraiseishitsudojo.com

Budo Intuition: Worriorhood tenraiseishitsudojo.com Martial Virtues... Warriorhood is a word for unagging bravery and ferocity for justice. It has wide application, and there are many kinds. When someone is erce and powerful by nature and developed in skill, able to lift heavy weights and leap long distances, cross rivers and travel far, going all day without tiring, wielding sword and spear without blinking or quivering, winning every battle at will, such a man is called a warrior. This is someone who has attained one type of Worriorhood. Whatever reaches outside is invariably rooted inside this is the condition of all beings. Therefore, when a foundation rooted within is small and slight, what emerges outwardly is accordingly not far reaching or grand. For this reason, if a warrior leader wants the full eect of martial virtue, it’s a matter of rst attending seriously to the path of self-improvement by warriorhood. Now the evidences of martial virtue outwardly evinced are two awe and obedience.This is called martial dignity.When martial dignity is outstanding, people submit and fear; being awed, they also obey. Awe and obedience are two things, but in eect they are one. Without awe and fear, others may outwardly obey but be inwardly opposed. If they are not submissive, they may be afraid at rst but will eventually rebel. In military science this is called the rule of controlling yet inspiring, by means of awe and admiration. To the degree you are awesome, people will nd this intimidating; to the extent you are admired, people will become attached to you.Therefore fear and admiration are the sources of all actions.The expression of martial virtue being awe and admiration, the practical eects of awe and admiration are fear and submission. Therefore to work unceasingly on warriorhood by yourself is to have virtue within you. Where people can rest in peace is where virtue is consummate. When inside and outside, other and self, nd their proper places, this is the totality of martial virtue. What eectuates this is knowledge; what implements this is duty; what completes this is courage. When the generals are rich in martial dignity, even if there are external troubles with rival states there is no anxiety for the homeland any who may come to try to invade will themselves be toppled and fall. Thus the state will endure. Does ease not ensue upon attaining this? When the multitude of knights comes under the inuence of this virtue, they discern duty on their own, volunteer with courage, despise discourtesy, and keep the law. Thus there is joy within and delight without. Does ease not ensue upon attaining this? Those who take leisure and amusement for ease are as if slicing o esh from their own bellies to eat in order to satisfy their own hungry guts. One occasion’s pleasure turns out to become many incidents of injury. Therefore taking it easy without a basis in martial virtue is the conduct of a weak leader. As a general category, martial virtue has two main aspects, cultural and military. Internal order is cultural, external deterrence is military. Even in other countries, rulers who started their careers with armaments seem to have founded their states by martial virtue, but that is not what the warriors of our country mean by martial virtue. It corresponds to the military classication, but that militarism is still not the same as our country’s militarism.Iron and lead may both be metal, but the dierence in their durability is as that between sky and earth. You can’t even talk about them on the same day. Abroad, what is called the virtue that governs all within the four seas functions on the basis of humaneness, so it is cultural virtue. What warriors call the virtue that governs all under heaven functions on the basis of duty, so it is martial virtue. This country and other countries are all within the same world; the reason their ideologies are so contradictory seems to be due to the inuence of ancient ways continued through the ages by habit, turning into conditions of human nature in the world. So whereas they originally received the form and energy of earth and water, they unavoidably came to have dierent preferences and aversions.Therefore when virtuous government is established taking all conditions into account, even if not exactly perfect it is not far o.

Martial Maze Update! Another great episode. Episode 3 of season 2 topic of discussion will be about the origins of Miyama Ryu Jujutsu and Taisabaki with our special guest Sensei Luis Soto! https://anchor.fm//Body-movementTai-sabaki-and-Balance--A-

Budo Intuition: Do Gaeshi(Body Returning) of Tagaki Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu. Going over the kata with my son. tenraiseishitsudojo.com

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