To understand compassion one must first live compassionately.

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

Love never destroys; hate in itself bears the scars of countless battles.

To overcome fear one must have lived with fear.

Training in a martial art has no end, just a beginning.

To have no compassion in your martial art, shows a cover up of our most natural instinct; “fear”.

The pursuit of powerful aggression within martial arts are the most often sought. This only creates more distance from one another and will never be the answer. Seek the pathless path in your journey and all will become clear in time.

Why is there so much energy given to the art of war? The art of peace requires so little!

Martial arts are not studied to enhance aggression, but to train the spirit to reveal flaws for ones own self correction.

Why do we bear arms at the slightest miscommunication? Our relationship with our ego craves always to be right.