That title might sound like a ridiculous thought, but it really is how a lot of people train in the martial arts and they may not be aware of it. There is an intrinsic problem in studying the martial arts no matter what the style. It has to do with how the brain processes information. …
I was just approached by a friend asking about choosing a martial arts school he could enroll his child in. He lives out of town and had visited several schools in his area. His survey of schools went from teachers who only taught one style to those that claimed to have mastered several styles of completely different …
When I first started studying Zen decades ago I witnessed several encounters between my teachers and students over the idea that the teachers were hiding something, that they weren’t really revealing what they knew. The students basically wanted the teacher to fess, come clean and just ‘tell’ them the truth. When the answer offered wasn’t …