Recently there was a jodo thread that passed my way. I asked Bieler Sensei if I could post his comments here. In the discussion jodo folks...

"Tolerate the mistakes and faults of others, But not your own. Endure you own difficulties and disgrace, But not those of others....

When I was studying in Japan I spent a great deal of time with a brush in hand studying the fine art of shodo 書道 - or way if the brush. Sad...

Musubi is a concept that I believes forms one of the core principles of aiki based art forms. Over my years of training I have felt var...

I shot some video of Hussey Sensei for a few minutes when we were training with a bokken.

Modern Japanese: martial, manly, strong, powerful, mighty, brave, power of fighting Mandarian: fierce, military, valiant, wushu Cantonese: m...

A few weeks ago Hussey Sensei lent me a video that was published by the Aikido Shihan, Endo Sensei (2025 edit I no longer have the video, an...