One of my students had a question the other night. The answer to the question may make a big difference in his life. But it requires dropping preconceptions. Finding the appropriate kokoro no maai. His question had to do with an idea from Hatsumi Sensei. The idea is that you should become zero. Don't be a target. Erase yourself. That way anyone who seeks to do harm will not find a target to land their ill intent. His question of me, was how to do this? And he meant in a practical way. Because he had sharks circling in his life. Ready to bloody the water at any moment. My answer to him came from my own experiences. 間合い I said one way to not be a target was to not be there when something bad happens. This is a deep idea. The strategies to achieve it include not hanging around a troubled area or with troubled people. If you spend your time with people who are in conflict or who seek conflict, you wi...
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