Some months ago, I sat in the corner of my office.  Strewn about my feet were various tomes of philosophy.  To my one side sat the Dao De Jing and Zhuangzi, to my fore was the Sun Tzu, and to another side rested The Gateless Gate.  However, the two works that troubled me the most were the Hagakure versus The Book of Five Rings.

According to Yamamoto Tsunetomo, author of the Hagakure, "the arts" are a frivolous pursuit... Read More

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I recently received a shipment of books on the history and art of taekwondo. Also, this past Friday afternoon I purchased James Clavell's book, Shogun, a fictional account of the events leading up to the civil war that followed the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Taiko of Japan, . Mixed in with all of that is what the Apostle Paul wrote in I Corinthians 13, commonly refered to among Christians as "the love chapter."

Clavell's depiction of the samurai is impressive. With a... Read More

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