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Hatsumi Essence

Ninjutsu offers guidance for all martial artists by teaching physical and spiritual survival methods. Through total immersion and confronting danger, the practitioner can gain strength, invincibility, and enlightenment. This enlightenment is characterized by the development of a "benevolent heart" capable of encompassing universal justice. The benevolent heart attained from exposure to life and death brings harmony between the spiritual and natural worlds. After generations of obscurity, the ninja's life philosophy is emerging again as it offers guidance that is needed for humanity.

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Hatsumi Essence

Ninjutsu offers guidance for all martial artists by teaching physical and spiritual survival methods. Through total immersion and confronting danger, the practitioner can gain strength, invincibility, and enlightenment. This enlightenment is characterized by the development of a "benevolent heart" capable of encompassing universal justice. The benevolent heart attained from exposure to life and death brings harmony between the spiritual and natural worlds. After generations of obscurity, the ninja's life philosophy is emerging again as it offers guidance that is needed for humanity.

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Essence of Ninjutsu

by Masaaki Hatsumi 34. Soke of the Togakure Ryu I believe that Ninpo, the highest order of Ninjutsu, should be offered to the world as a guiding influence for all martial artist. The physical and spiritual survival methods eventually immortalized by Japan's ninja were in fact one of the sources of Japanese martial arts. Without complete and total training in all aspects of the combative arts, today's martial artist cannot hope to progress any further than mere proficiency in the limited set of muscular skills that make up his or her training system. Personal enlightenment can only come about through total immersion in the martial tradition as a way of living. By experiencing the confrontation of danger, the transcendence of fear of injury or death, and a working knowledge of individual personal powers and limitations, the practitioner of Ninjutsu can gain the strength and invincibility that permit enjoyment of the flowers moving in the wind, appreciation of the love of others, and contentment with the presence of peace in society. The attainment of this enlightenment is characterized by the development of the jihi no kokoro, or "benevolent heart." Stronger than love itself, the benevolent heart is capable of encompassing all that constitutes universal justice and all that finds expression in the unfolding of the universal scheme. Born of the insight attained from repeated exposure to the very brink between life and death, the benevolent heart of Ninpo is the key to finding harmony and understanding in the realms of the spiritual and natural material worlds. After so many generations of obscurity in the shadowy recesses of history, the life philosophy of the ninja is now once again emerging, because once again, it is the time in human destiny in which Ninpo is needed. May peace prevail so mankind may continue to grow and evolve into the next great plateau. - Adapted from Tetsuzan

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