Walking With The Tengu

Reflections on training, tradition and the end of the year. 

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We take a short break from the Budoushoshinshu to tackle a question that I hear come up from time to time: Why do we continue to perform traditions and actions from the cultures where our martial arts originated?

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When everyone is "special" that quality just becomes "normal." What makes a person truly of value, over and above the normal? We look at what Daidouji Yuuzan thinks about how one can go about surpassing others on the path to excellence.

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Daidouji Yuuzan joins us this week with some thoughts on how borrowing, stealing and loaning one's lord's authority. We look at how this relates to the logical fallacy of an "appeal to authority." How citing an expert is NOT an example of this fallacy and then spend some time looking at how this all relates to the martial arts. I also give practical steps in how to discern good information from bad.

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Are you a part of a tribe? I suspect we all are in some way. We explore Daidouji's thoughts in this next episode about what constituted a noteworthy samurai of his "tribe" and ask some questions about how that may relate to you today. 

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What do Zen priest and Samurai titles have in common? Don't worry, we're not going to delve too deep into that, but there is a point here that Daidouji Yuuzan makes about not wasting your time and the importance of experts.

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Apparently, some of Daidouji Yuuzan's coworkers were whiners. In this episode we look at his advice on how to push ourselves out of comfort zones and how to have a better mindset when facing hardship.

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The only thing worse than a sewing circle... is a bunch of martial artists. Let's take a look at what Daidouji Yuuzan, a samurai in the early Tokugawa era had to say about gossip and slander.

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What is better? To be a warrior in a garden or a gardener in a war? Today we look at what Daidouji Yuuzan has to say about the importance of training both the literary and combative arts. 

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What does choosing a horse have to do with a modern martial artist? Daidouji Yuuzan, author of the Budoushoshinshu, offers some thoughts on the principles of choosing a horse that can have an immediate impact on both your training and your training equipment. 

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