Jizo Sama on Mount Koya Photo copyright Peter Boylan 2014   I’ve heard proponents...

  Tamahagane, traditional steel, is filled with impurities and requires repeated heating and hammering just to get the impurities out. On...

Photo Copyright 2015 Grigoris Miliaresis This one is for Scott Halls. From the Kenkyusha Online Dictionary へいじょうしん 【平常心】 (heijs...

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...