The Five Cereals are a Chinese concept for describing the entirety of food. Chinese immortals are said to not eat the Five Cereals. This is sometimes misunderstood as a precept for a Daoist diet. But it means to eat not at all and hence is something, which only immortals are able to do! Because not […]

Although Martin Armstrong often claims that people in charge of the economy don’t understand cycles or only accept their existence, cycles really are taught in economics. Prices in theory are made were offers and demands meet. Students of economics learn exponential graphs and other complicated patterns for determining prices this way. These patterns use to […]

This whole article series was inspired by an article by Ellis Amdur on koryu.com. Ellis Amdur defines setsunintō (殺人剣) as the life-taking sword and katsujinken (活人剣) as the sword, which protects people. His article is widely discussed among martial artists throughout the World Wide Web. Thus I meanwhile learnt that his definitions of setsunintō (殺人剣) […]

While you never can reach the stage of ri (離) of the Asian concept of learning if you already broke during the stage of ha (破) with your teacher, you still could discover and most likely at this stage that your teacher somehow isn’t the right teacher for you. Aikido Journal has a great article […]

On the one hand is embarrassing that the aikidōka (合気道家) Hoshi Tesshin (星 哲臣) was a war criminal. On the other hand I meanwhile had to read that all those, who taught martial arts, had been listed as war criminals. Ueshiba Morihei (植芝 盛平), too, was at least a suspect and had only because he […]

Today is Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday or the Thursday of the Lord’s Supper. (Or also the World Dumplings Day.) It is the beginning of the Paschal Triduum or Holy Triduum or Easter Triduum. These are the last three days of the christian fastening season as well as the beginning of the Easter Liturgy. Because […]

In last month, around the time when I published that the single all-in straight forward thrust is rather not encountered at all in reality, a Syrian in Germany tried to prove this wrong. Roughly five-hundred Kurdish people from everywhere in Bavaria State had gathered for a barbecue in Parsberg. The police is sure about neither […]

Cava is asteroid #505 and also known as 1902 LL. Cava is of the type FC. Cava’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.67 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.25, a period of revolution of 1 605 days, and an inclination of 9.8 degrees. Cava was discovered by the American astronomer Royal Harwood […]

European countries currently are re-arming themselves. This reveals some deficits. Once all of Germany was proud of its chemical industry. Now Germany already began to import nitric acid (HNO3) from China. All chemistry laboratories in the world provide huge containers filled with nitric acid (HNO3), hydrochloric acid (HCl), and sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Chemists call these the […]

A main purpose of a spiritual blog like this one is to discern between true and untrue. Concerning the martial arts, lineages are very important for discerning between bogus arts and genuine traditions. After having published several articles on aikidō (合気道) here, I must have a skeptical look on its lineage. Although I can only […]