Walking With The Tengu

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Walking With The Tengu episodes

February 02, 2019 The Daoist story of Cook Ding and flow states
In today's episode we revisit the work of Zhuangzi with a look at a particularly skill butcher and how this works in understanding what is meant when someone talks about a "Way" or "the Way."
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13 min
January 19, 2019 Tengu's Sermon 05: Skills and The Way
We get started on chapter 2 picking up right where we left off. Getting into some pretty heady stuff about how to bring everything we talked about in chapter 1 together.
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15 min
January 05, 2019 The Seagull and Mayfly Discuss The Tao
Today we take a brief interlude from the Tengu's Sermon proper and take a light hearted look at one of his other short parables about some very philosophical creatures and all the big words they like to use.
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9 min
December 31, 2018 Listener Feedback 1
A quick update with some listener feedback I wanted to share. Happy New Year!
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8 min
December 22, 2018 Tengu's Sermon 04: How To Learn
In this episode we close out chapter one as things start to get serious when a more senior tengu weighs in on the discussion so far and relates a message that strikes directly at the heart of all martial arts, both traditional and modern, today.
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15 min
December 07, 2018 Tengu's Sermon 03: What's the deal with "mushin" (no mind)?
In this episode we finally come to one of the main points that the last two episodes were building up to and tackle the sometimes annoying word "mushin" (無心).
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9 min
November 24, 2018 Tengu's Sermon 02: Facing a bigger, stronger, untrained opponent.
In this episode we tackle the next part of the first chapter of the Tengugeijutsuron wherein Issai spends some time addressing facing a bigger, stronger, untrained opponent.
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11 min
November 10, 2018 Tengu's Sermon 01: Technique vs Principle and how can we contextualize something like "chi."
We dig into the first part of chapter 1 of "The Tengu's Discourse on the Martial Arts" in today's episode. Wherein the tengu talk a bit about technique versus principle and I spend some time justifying Chozanshi's use of the word "chi."
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11 min
November 02, 2018 Who was Issai Chozanshi the author of the Tengu's Sermon?
In our first supplemental episode, we briefly introduce Issai Chozanshi, the author of the work we'll be looking at for the next few months.
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12 min
October 27, 2018 Tengu's Sermon: Preface - Not much has changed the last three hundred years.
In this episode we begin work on the text known as the "Tengu's Discourse on the Martial Arts." In the preface, written by a contemporary of the author it becomes obvious that things haven't changed all that much in the world of martial arts.
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13 min