Sublime

The definition of warriorship is fearlessness and gentleness. Those are your weapons. The genuine warrior becomes truly gentle because there is no enemy at all.

To mould the mind and body. To cultivate a vigorous spirit And through correct and structured training, To strive for improvement in the art of Kendo. To hold in esteem courtesy and honour. To associate with others with sincerity. And to forever pursue the cultivation of oneself. Thus will one be able: To love one's country and society; To

He had an understanding that mistakes can have virtue. They show that we are making the effort, engaging with life, “in the arena,” as Theodore Roosevelt famously put it.

Code of the Samurai,—the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self-sacrifice;

God’s intentions for us are clear, and they are wonderful. But they involve learning, and I am not the Teacher. I know him, though. He has been training me for a number of years, and he is always eager to take on new apprentices, Warriors to train and share his way with. It is not a journey for the faint of heart, but it is unique, noble,

And from what we know, he truly saw each and every one of these obstacles as an opportunity to practice some virtue: patience, courage, humility, resourcefulness, reason, justice, and creativity. The power he held never seemed to go to his head—neither did the stress or burden. He rarely rose to excess or anger, and never to hatred or bitterness.

To play is to see, hear, and feel the opponent as a partner versus an enemy.

The only way this fitting of your body into his can be achieved is if your body is sufficiently relaxed and supple, allowing you to fill the spaces in the same way liquid fills the inside of any vessel into which it is poured, regardless of shape.