THE WAY PLACE

THE DOJO IS THE HOME OF THE SENSEI. IT IS A PLACE OF: LEARNING AND PRACTICE

HARMONY, CONTEMPLATION, FINDING AND WALKING THE CORRECT PATH AND SECURING FOR THE FUTURE, THE RIGHT WAY AND THE WAY PLACE.

ACCORDING TO SENSEI URBAN, THE DOJO IS A PLACE TO LEARN AMONG OTHER THINGS, "HOW TO FIGHT REAL GOOD. (CHESS WAS ALSO A REQUIREMENT FOR THOSE LIFETIME AFICIONADOS WHO WISH TO BECOME BLACK BELTS.

WHAT SENSEI DIDN'T TELL MOST BECAUSE OF “WHATEVER,” IS WHAT KIND OF FIGHTING ONE HAS TO DO, WHAT ONE HAS TO FIGHT AND WHAT ONE HAS TO FIGHT TO ACCOMPLISH DURING ONES TENURE, AS A SENSEI, THIS HE KNEW TO BE THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STUDENT.

THIS ONE SHOULD FIND OUT AND BE AWARE OF, PARTICULARLY BEFORE ONE SPENDS MANY YEARS PRACTICING WITHOUT EVER REALLY KNOWING, APPRECIATING AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT ONE IS SUPPOSED TO DO, TO LEARN AND TAKE AWAY WITH THEM ON THIS INCREDIBLE, FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF WHICH WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED AND FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ACCEPTED AS "SEEKERS OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE TRUTH" AND EXPERIENCE THE WONDER AND AWE OF MARTIAL ART SCIENCE AND COMBATIVES.

SENSEI URBAN ALWAYS REFEREED TO THIS, “HIS NUMBER ONE MISSION AS A SENSEI WAS TO “POINT ACCURATELY” IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION THE STUDENT. IT IS UP TO THE STUDENT TO EXPERIENCE AND LEARN FROM THE JOURNEY. IT IS “NEVER” THE  JOB OF THE SENSEI TO CARRY THE STUDENT UP THE LADDER, UP THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL OR ON THE PATH OF ENLIGHTENMENT. IT IS ON THIS HARD AND SOFT PATH OF ENLIGHTENMENT THAT ONE MUST LEARN TO CONQUER THEMSELVES AND IN SO DOING CONQUER THE ROAD AND OVERCOME ALL OBSTACLES TO THEIR DESTINY .

IT IS A PLACE WHERE EFFORTLESS EFFORT EXISTS, IN WHICH IT CAN BE: FOUND, CREATED, AND BROUGHT OUT OF DARKNESS AND INTO THE LIGHT.

TO ITS DOJO'S ADHERENTS IT IS A SACRED PLACE: TO WORK, TO FIGHT, TO PRACTICE, TO WORSHIP, (AND AS SENSEI ALWAYS STATED, "ONES RELIGION IS WHAT ONE BELIEVES IN, THAT THEY CAN COUNT ON THAT WORKS FOR THEM, ALL THE TIME")

IT IS A PLACE OF CLEANLINESS, ORDER, ORGANIZATION, ACKNOWLEDGING ONE'S OWN LIMITS AND STRENGTHS, ETC.

THE DOJO IS A PLACE ACCOMPLISHMENT, IT IS A PLACE TO PRACTICE THE BELIEF AND THE POTENTIAL IN ONE'S OWN ABILITY.

A PLACE TO FIND ONE’S OWN PEACE WITH ONESELF AND WITH THE WORLD,

IT IS A PLACE OF MAGIC AND WONDER, AND FAR MORE INTERESTING AND WONDROUS THAN MOST WILL EVER KNOW, UNDERSTAND, APPRECIATE OR HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE.

MOST PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED AND WHOSE CONCEPT OF THE DOJO IS SKEWED AT BEST BELIEVING IN “CONFLICT RESOLUTION THROUGH VIOLENCE” INSTEAD OF THROUGH PEACE AND HARMONY AND BEING ONE WITH THE SELF AND THEREFORE ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE. 

MOST PEOPLE, BELIEVE IN FIGHTING, COMPETITION, ARGUMENTATION, CONFLICT, AND MANY OTHER THINGS BESIDES HARMONY WITH YOUR SELF OR WITHIN YOUR WORLD COMMUNITY.