Samurai – Quills and Quintains

Death and Chivalry

For history’s elite warriors, death was their business. It was no metaphor or dramatization for them. Death was their coin and bread. They braced themselves to mete it out and recieve it in kind. Philosophy and literature reflects this need.

Prowess, Courage, & Embracing Risk

Dealing with the risk of loss; How Courage aids the exercise of Prowess

The Point of it All

There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. That person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished. . . Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than today. This is never ending. from The Hagakure, YamamotoContinue reading “The Point of it All”