Exchanges

 

Not all styles of writing speak to all people.  Long before the teaching arts made use of the essay or of the research paper, narratives of various kinds were the most proficient means of transmitting knowledge and of inspiring reflection.  Dialogs were most often used. With two other types of writing more akin to the modern pedagogy found on this site, these Exchanges are offered here to fill the void some may feel in reading something so dry and so empty of the emotions that are central to the human experience of practicing the Way. 

For the most part, the Exchanges are works of fiction.  However, each one has their roots in an actual human-to-human interaction.  Fictional license is used solely to make the key discussion points more relative to a larger audience. 

A Great Fish

All of Mankind

An Important Question

Another Existence

Arriving

Awareness and Consideration

Badwater

Becoming

Big Mistakes

Boredom

By Will Alone

Caring

Carried in Our Actions

Center

Deconstruction

Defeatism

Eagles

Escape

Exams

Exchange

Farming

Fear

Fingers

Gardens and Outhouses

Harmony

Honor

How Long?

How Often?

Important and not Important

Matthew

Mature Training

Muddy Water

Not For You

Not So Wonderful is what is Wonderful

Old Man Ueshiba

Only Our Skill

Open Gi

Paranoia

Path Marked by Fear

Pure Heart

Purification

Quick and Smooth

Real Strength

Right Beginnings

Rough for Me

Seeing Beyond

Self-Deceit

Teacher

The Body

The Egg and The Stone

The Four Men

The Masses

The Serious Student

The Sum of All Parts

The Sword as Shield

The Two Sons

The Way is Perfect

Thy Will Be Done

Training is not a Meal

Training is Waiting

Training within the Infinite

Two Sides, Same Coin

Two Sisters

Upon Their Lips

Welcome

What One Will Be

When I am Gone

Who

Why Weapons

Wisdom, Faith, Humility

With Effort

Zazen and Pain

Zen and Budo Overlap

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