Why do we study a lifetime of fighting within the martial arts? To seek a peaceful path to enlightenment.

To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.

Those who only seek destruction within the martial arts are disconnected to themselves and all fragile life.

Within the martial arts, while competition in the form of sport exists, the art of Budo, a way of love may never be truly understood.

To overcome fear one must have lived with fear.

The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.

After a life time study in martial arts you may come to the realization that fighting or not fighting, is really the same.

The true martial artist has a caring spirit that sees all as one.