To live only in today or the past leaves no room for tomorrow.

To overcome fear one must have lived with fear.

As there are opposites such as, positive and negative, yin and yang, war and peace. We should always strive to seek the art of peace.

We are all of this earth, do not fight or lay greed. The earth is plentiful if we can all learn to share it.

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

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.

If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.

To train a life time acquiring skills of self-defence only to seek retribution in the destruction of others becomes a wasted journey; a path of self-destruction.

To defeat an enemy with compassion over aggression will take great understanding. Introduce this as a part of your life’s philosophy.

To seek the path of ego within the martial arts will seed jealousy and corruption.