You can own a sword, display a sword or collect to sell swords. But the way of the samurai sword is only revealed to the user.

To hate or to not hate an enemy! It starts within your mind! Train to see all from the same perspective.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

To win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.