If you like comfort and glamour, goods and fame, then this book is not for you. This book is intended for those who strive to discover themselves, those who have chosen a path contrary to the deeply rooted human hypocrisy, egotism, and narcissism. Here you will encounter yourselves in all segments of your life. You will come across self-centeredness and my way of liberating yourself from it, self-pride and my way of controlling it, your own ego and my way of repressing it.

If you are a devotee of Japanese martial arts, you will find points to compare or challenge, things to criticize or issues to agree with. This is my way, as I have understood and walked it thus far. If 10 years down the road, having spent as much time reflecting on and devoted to the path both technically and spiritually, I were to write another book, it would undoubtedly be terser than this one. At that point I may laugh in disbelief over my musings from 10 years ago. But that would mean that I have evolved in my development and that there is a path that makes sense.

In this book I wanted to capture the point in time where we face the dilemma of what our path is and where it leads, what our physique, our matter, and its core, thought, and spirituality are like. Is our goal technical perfecting, or is the path entirely different while the way is insignificant?

Still, the technical perfection is an extremely important component. It adds to the quality of performance of the other elements leading to a complete orientation toward finding the path, toward the gate with no hatch, a thought with no thought, the true truth, the void emptiness, the light in the darkness. The comprehension of our matter is the beginning of comprehending our inner, our core. Even more so, the comprehension of these two together will lead us to understanding ourselves as transmitters of the cosmic and earthly energy, to understanding the universe, and this will leads us to a different dimension.