I want to see each and every one of the world’s neglected bare tree people come home to where they shine in a breath-taking radiance of sparkling joy and meaning.
Basic truth is simple. It is extremely unlikely a child could fight off an adult, even with years of martial arts training. A child is a soft and easy target. An elementary school child would be hard pressed to fight off an adult attacker, especially an angry or determined abuser or abductor. Except in the […]
An-shu Stephen and An-shu Rumiko Hayes visited the Phoenix Quest Center to teach a class in how to slip outside a powerful leading-hand punch or wrestling neck grab. “An-shu Rumiko and I have visited the Phoenix Quest Center before, and it was a great reunion with senior training members we see at Festival every year […]
The Dalai Lama – WAR AND PEACE by Spriha Srivastava | December 5, 2010 17:38 What has a Ninjutsu Master got to say about His Holiness The Dalai Lama? A lot more than you know, for Stephen K Hayes was security advisor to His Holiness for the better part of the 1990s, and continues to […]
A friend wrote me and asked my advice. He agreed to let me share our correspondence. “I am having a lot of difficulty finding my way through some tough times in my life. I am looking for a full time job, pressing on with my martial arts, managing a family crisis, and generally figuring out […]
I truly believe you can only give as much compassion as you can afford. When you are very strong, you can afford to show a lot of compassion. Not very strong? You risk your compassion being perceived as weakness, and you are vulnerable to suffering intolerable loss. This is one irony of martial arts training: […]
My friend Scott W. found a 20-year old issue of a ninja magazine with a quote from Masaaki Hatsumi that supports what I have said about ninja swords for decades. I do not own a copy of the magazine, and I had long ago forgotten about the article. A few silly people envious of the […]
After I see the Dalai Lama at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, my friend Arjia Rinpoche, Director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center (TMBCC) of Bloomington, Indiana, will visit Dayton, Ohio, to promote his new book, Surviving the Dragon, published by Rodale Book Company with a forward written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. […]
Long-time friend of An-shu Stephen K. Hayes, Leo Dokutoshi Pimentel, has established a dojo in NYC. Interested in helping to build a place for To-Shin Do in Manhattan?
Friends have asked me about some of the techniques that keep me intrigued with my Tibetan teachers who share with me their ageless lore of the Dorje Phurba “demon-defeating dagger”. Are you up for trying out an exercise? The phurba dagger is a very real tool – a 3-edged blade like the famous commando daggers […]