The Dojo

For most of us we live a life of frustration, anxiety, agitation and addiction. Sometimes it just feels so futile and meaningless. Our brief years of life are filled with difficulties due to circumstances of war, pestilence, famine and many other disturbances. We want a high standard of living within a complex stimulation of the senses, which ultimately makes us less sensitive and in need of even more violent stimulation. We crave distractions of sights and sounds, of thrills crowded into the shortest possible time. We live lives that consist of doing jobs that are boring in order to earn a means to seek relief from our hectic and expensive pleasures. We justify our lives so that we may rear a family because we don’t know what else to do. Either we have faith that there is a life after death or feel that the whole thing is so futile that we spend our whole life pretending that it isn’t. I am not making any secret claims to some mysterious knowledge. I like you are trying to understand the great mystery of why we are here and have chosen a path that seems to suit my personality and give me hope that there is a reason to it all.
At times of expanded consciousness, I understood that that I am a perfect spiritual being living in a body of meat. I am not only attached, but very dependent on this body for the time being. My reasons for getting involved with martial arts, was for the most part an effort to remove fear from my life. Later on the reasons changed as I matured and noticed an underlying pattern that transcended style, label and physical attributes which has kept me going along the path towards protecting the body I have become so dependent on. The Dojo is a place where I can help others motivated by the same concerns for themselves and their families.