I had another birthday recently. So did my iaido teacher, Kiyama Hiroshi. He turned 94.  Aging is just another part of the budo journey. Ju...

A while back I wrote about mushin 無心 , usually translated as “no mind” in English.  It’s an aspect of the mental development we stri...

There is a lot of philosophizing that goes on in budo circles.  I know that I am in the first rank of those guilty of it.  There is far t...

This blog post is an attempt to give a reasonably complete answer to a question in reply to a post here . I would say that it is possible...