I just posted a short on control at my karate-do blog site but realized that it relates to the ken-po goku-i as well. If you read it as fol...

In the ken-po goku-i it is said, "One must SEE all sides." In my recent reading of the book of martial power by Steven J. Pearlman...

Recently a great post was discussing the code of the Samurai, Bushido, and I commented on it where the blogger provided me a wonderful pdf d...

The eyes must see all sides; the ears must hear in all directions. I have covered a lot as to what I feel meets the meaning of the line on ...

Just to let you know that all my blogs have been "moved" into one account. I had them set to particular email accounts that would ...

I can be stubborn where once I learn something that really resonates with me with emphasis on my practice of karate-do I tend to resist any ...

The first line of the gokui is "A person's heart is the same as Heaven and Earth." The kanji that goes along with it is depict...

One hand is open and one is closed into a fist. What is the symbolism of this? The right hand is closed to represent the hard aspects of our...

We practice Okinawan Karate, yes? So, a good question is why would we want to study the ancient Chinese classics? In a nutshell to understan...

"... a form of Buddhism that emphasized on self cultivation through seated meditation ... 'Dhyana' in Sanskrit or the investiga...

Chiron Blog by Rory Miller provided a term I had not heard before, Triune Brain. In that light as I tend to do I did some searching on the ...

As to Isshinryu, which is the basis and reason for my study of this short terse tome on karate-do: The "Kenpo Gokui"(Secrets of ...

A person's heart likened to the glow of the heavens as they shine upon the earth. Blood flows along the path lit by the glow of crescent...

Awareness means one should first "see" within themselves and then once seeing must become attentive to what they find with clarity...

Another aspect that brings to mind the seventh sentence of the ken-po goju-i is the question I would ask practitioners, "Do you activel...

I wanted to touch base on the fifth line of the ken-po goku-i in that we train/practice to have our bodies change directions at any time. Wh...

"It is not what others think of me that matters; it is what I think of myself. If I allow myself to be shaped by other opinions, I woul...

"We think we know something one day only to discover that what we thought we knew was not quite right. We constantly wake up to knowled...

In ken-po goku-i the last two sentences mention both seeing and hearing. Another form of "seeing" in all directions is that of min...

The mind or mental processes are ephemeral. The gray matter that makes up our brains are physical while the thoughts and emotions we experie...