Hanshi Kaufman introduces his new book, Way of the Modern Warrior – Living the Samurai Ideal in the 21st Century, forthcoming from Tuttle Publishing in Fall 2012. Preorder your copy at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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Hanshi Kaufman is featured in Martial Arts Entertainment Magazine, Volume 5, pages 56-57. Here you will read Hanshi’s powerful article, “The Application of Primal Action on a Sophisticated Plane in Martial Arts.” This extraordinary article takes the serious student into realms of combat previously never explored from his forthcoming book, “The Teachings of Hanshi Kaufman.” http://www.martialartsentertainmentmagazine.com/
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from Sword in the Boardroom – Conversations with Sun Tzu and Musashi on Winning for the Benefit of All Concerned
Sun Tzu: Masters speak of walking in the manner of yin and yang. They do not mean that each aspect of walking is either yin or yang. You do not tell yourself to move the left foot and then the right foot. You walk without thinking in the same manner that you breathe without thinking. It is all the same thing. Walk with yin and yang.
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from The Shogun’s Scroll by Stephen F. KaufmanWhat I have attempted to explain to you, my Liege, is certain to be known to you. Not wishing to be presumptuous, I have given you what I believe is the most intelligent and realistic information. I am indebted to Heaven and the grace bestowed on me by God to have been considered wise enough to explain my understanding of these things to you.
What I have discussed is without doubt what a man of your attainment certainly knows. But the wisdom does not stop there. These words are for the benefit of all men in all times, and if they would understand what the words themselves impart, they would truly control their own destinies to the degree that they can accept these truths.
A man’s position in life is always based on the degree to which he accepts the values shown to him by the Spirit of the Thing Itself. This spirit reveals to a man only that which he desires it to reveal to him, personally. Spirit is impersonal and could not care less about you until you tell it what to do on your behalf. It has no mind of its own, and again, can only reveal of itself as you desire it to reveal of itself. You may of course prevail upon it to show you the way to higher understanding.
To know you are shogun is one thing—this takes learning. To realize you are shogun is some thing—this takes meditation. But, to be shogun is no thing and this demands acceptance of the self.
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