Matters of Life and Death: Essays In Budo

The Way handed down across the centuries is not subject to popular consensus or notions of what is reasonable. If one aspires - and that word refers to breathing - to training in Budô, one gives up rights, including the right to an ego. This does not mean Ego will not have something to say about it; each moment, Ego appears anew, in the familiar guise of "myself." This is normal. When crossing swords, however, we soon discover that normal is worse than useless. The challenge is only whether to engage fully with life, or be driven by previous behavioral patterns. There is no ultimate victory here: the previous moment has no bearing on the present. We are alive, or not, moment by moment, until there are no more moments.

Author: Peter Barus
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 01/17/2013
Pages: 138
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9781481204439

About the Author
The author has trained in Japanese swordsmanship since 1984 in a tradition several centuries old. He lives in Vermont, where he conducts regular classes and the occasional seminar.

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