"Flexibility is letting go of egotism and fixations so as to become receptive to truth." [The ego is the true hindrance to achievi...

I have posted many times with discussions as to the body following the mind and when you couple that with the Kenpo Gokui/I Ching teachings ...

Here is another one I created to help remember the eight primary trigrams/gua for the I Ching. It allows you to look at your hand and see th...

This is a little something I created from my studies of the I Ching. Click on it to see the largest version. I arranged the trigrams so that...

In the beginning, Isshinryu that is on Oki, there was no belt system. Then one day someone presented Tatsuo Sensei a belt and then Sensei pr...

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As mentioned in previous postings the kenpo gokui was the "tome" provided to select students of Tatsuo Sensei when they transferre...

"Empty the mind and fill the belly is to put aside preconceptions and become open to guidance. Refrain from arbitrary thought and actio...

"Refrain from arbitrary thought and action in order to accumulate energy simply by not dissipating energy. Gaining power by saving powe...

"A matter of persistence in the midst of action and stillness. Put aside preconceptions and become open to guidance." [Be in the n...

"The duality between the conditioned conscious mind and the primal unconscious mind is unfixed, and that the "true" mind can ...

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"Yin and Yang are used to refer to a dichotomy in the human being that can be bridged by practice." [Heaven-Earth; Sun-Moon; Hard-...

"A warrior pursues justice alone in spite of adversity, willing to give up his life and die for the cause." [Steely fortitude]

This post is a bit off topic yet if I give it some thought our practice/training can help. Let me go further. If we are truly practicing the...

"If you seek stillness while active, your mind stays on truth, so you can act with out error. When ever you encounter people making a c...

Wind (the breath of Earth) follows the tiger. [page 9, hexagram 1 the creative; heaven] --------- --------- ---- ---- wind, wood trigram Cou...

hexagram (10): This image gave King Wen the inspiration that a cautious person handles a dangerous situation as if treading upon a tiger...

"Mind-breath practice: Self-refinement, the elementary practice of overcoming the impulsive self to become "empty" and forget...

Book One, The Text, Hexagram 17; sui - following: "Only when a man is completely free from his ego, and intent, by conviction, upon wha...