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 care for others is the real martial art. To not care shows a disregard for yourself and the universe.

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

To overcome fear one must have lived with fear.

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

Treat others in the way you would like to be treated and a harmony shall exist.

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

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.

Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.

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