Ippo jitsu mugai

  "Scholars of old time said that the mind is originally empty", and only because of this can it respond (resonate) to natural things  without prejudices (traces left behind to influenece later vision). Only the empty mind can respond to the things of nature. Though everything resonates with the mind, the mind should not remain in it. But once the mind has received (impressions of) natural things, they tend to remain and not disappear, thus leaving traces in the mind. It should be like a river gorge with swans flying overhead; the river has no desire to retain the swans, yet the swan's passage is traced out by its shadow without any omission. Take another example. All thinhs, weather beautiful or ugly, are reflected in a mirror; it never refuses to show anything, nor retain anything afterwards."

Throughout the world there are numerous training facilities for the Asian martial arts. However, very few of these places rate the title of dojo. The more commonly used terms of studio or gymnasium are, general, much more appropriate. These institutions teach only the shell of an art and neither understand nor attempt to transmit its heart. There is no great harm in this, for the average customer at such a school is only interested in changing his body. He has no desire to alter his personality.