If you’ve read Grandmaster Hatsumi’s first book in English, “Ninjutsu: History & Tradition”, then you know about the 3 Aspects. We’ll be looking at these from the perspective he outlines in the omote side of training, as well as what the training looks like on the URA (hidden)side to take our progress full circle. This

In the core teachings at the root of our Ninpo-Mikkyo ‘mind-science’ training lies lessons regarding the ‘Truth of Suffering’, the ‘Truth of the Cause of Suffering’ and of course, the ‘Truth of the Liberation from Suffering’. And, while this lesson, as well as others, seems to point to eliminating all of the negative from our lives,

One of the most important lessons I learned from my teachers when actual “self-protection” was the goal of training; and not just collecting techniques or religiously adhering to an “official stylized way of doing things (while believing we were focused on self defense); was to not limit my focus only to, literally, the LAST place

Rather than continue to pull topics out of my proverbial Ninja “hat”, I posed a question at the end of a recent episode… “What questions do YOU have about the art, certain techniques, or your training?” During this episode I’ll be answering a few of those that came in.