The Way of the Modern Warrior: Living the Samurai Ideal in the 21st Century

The Way of the Modern Warrior: Living the Samurai Ideal in the 21st Century

by Stephen F. Kaufman
The Way of the Modern Warrior: Living the Samurai Ideal in the 21st Century

The Way of the Modern Warrior: Living the Samurai Ideal in the 21st Century

by Stephen F. Kaufman

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Overview

Learn how to apply bushido philosophy and long-standing samurai strategies to your modern-day practice — and lifestyle — in this guide from a former soldier and martial arts expert.

A warrior is anyone who applies their energy and creativity in support of a cause or ideal through creation or conflict. Real warriors have an ethos, a guiding belief that provides him or her with a clear purpose for their actions and an understanding that the battle in which they are engaged will have results that lead to a higher good.

The Way of the Modern Warrior is an explanation of the samurai philosophy, or Bushido, of Japan's fiercest warriors, practiced for over 1000 years. The author, Hanshi Stephen Kaufman, has been a warrior for 50 years, first as a member of the military, then as an advisor to the military and finally as one of the world's most distinguished martial arts philosophers. In his years of experience, he has collected the wisdom that comes from lessons learned and lessons taught.

The 55 precepts in his new book are the result of those years of experience, and these samurai strategies will guide the modern day warrior as they devote energy and creativity to their practice. These principles and philosophies, drawn from samurai history, include Kaufman's insights about:
  • Arrogance
  • Ease and Grace
  • Wise Men and Evil
  • Being Genuine
  • Shame and the Glory
The Way of the Modern Warrior is an essential handbook for the 21st-century samurai warrior who lives by honor, duty, and service.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804850742
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication date: 06/26/2018
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Stephen F. Kaufman is the author of the best selling book, Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's Classic Book of Strategy, Sun Tzu's Art of War, and The Shogun Scrolls. Acknowledged as the true founding father of American Karate, he has been elected to the title and rank of Hanshi, 10th Dan, the highest and most prestigious rank in the martial arts world. Mr. Kaufman lives in New York City but travels extensively holding seminars and teaching the principles for personal and professional excellence through the use of bushido.

Table of Contents

Contents
1. Change
2. Think Well of Yourself
3. Your Fallacies 4. Easy Way In—Easy Way Out
5. Pure Harmony
6. Advice
7. Easy Come and Easy Go
8. Same and different
9. Focus on Principles
10. Too Many Books
11. Unquenchable Conquest
12. The Universe Knows
13. Accept the Target's Acceptance
14. Take it
15. Clever People
16. Money and Evil
17. Ease and Grace
18. Seeking
19. Time
20. Arrogance
21. Water and Stone
22. Power and Quickness
23. Wise Men and Evil
24. Deeds and Words and Poets
25. Appreciation
26. People with Something to Say
27. Cheap Gods
28. Heart, Mind, and Spirit
29. Understanding
30. Humble Opinions
31. How to Perish
32. Education and Learning
33. You First
34. Right and Wrong
35. If you're going to Play, Play. Don't Play.
36. Politeness is not a sign of weakness
37. The necessity of Humility
38. Fate and Free Will
39. Yin and Yang
40. Being Genuine
41. Hope
42. Simply to Be
43. To hear and to do
44. Gullibility
45. Journey
46. To Be One Thing You Must Also Be the Opposite
47. Greatness
48. Heaven
49. Being Right
50. Life and Death
51. Inconsequence
52. The Shame and the Glory
53. Thank you
54. Fear and Joy
55. Bad Behavior

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