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Jul.22.2010
Excerpt from The Lady of the Rings - Musashi's Book of Five Rings Strategy Interpreted for Women as told by Ann Davis
The final part of the chapter called Earth talks about matters that are of utmost importance to an individual in the daily course of life. They seem hard to accomplish, and perhaps...
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Jul.11.2010
The Lady of the Rings – Musashi's Book of Five Rings Strategy Interpreted for Women
by
Hanshi Stephen F. Kaufman
with Ann Davis
In the introduction of the book, Ann Davis discusses her initial encounters with Musashi's Book of Five Rings. Here is an excerpt from that introduction.
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Jun.18.2010
It's been a busy Spring and early Summer. I have finished working on a martial arts instructional manual entitled, Mastering Okinawan Sai, (an esoteric weapon primarily designed to ward off Samurai sword attacks) have begun work on a new Hanshi David Mann novel, The Hanshi in Oslo, done a final...
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Mar.15.2010
To promote my new book title, The Lady of the Rings - Musashi's Book of Five Rings Strategy Interpreted for Women, I am making a special offer to RedRoom readers for a limited time. Order any book from my website, www.hanshi.com and receive a FREE copy of The Lady of the Rings, a powerful self-...
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Feb.25.2010
My friend and-co author of Portraits of the Living Tao, surprised me the other day with a photo show accompanied by music that is a bit over two minutes. It occurred to both us that the result could be used as a book trailer. For those not familiar with Portraits of the Living Tao, it is an...
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Feb.13.2010
It is not the hand that caresses
It is the space that feeling embraces
It is the sound of the flute and not the flute itself!
My friend Peggy invited me to visit the Pacific Northwest a few months ago and asked me to bring along my native indian flute, because she said that she was going to take...
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Jan.27.2010
I thought about this for quite a while until I decided on what book had actually had the most influence on my career and even more but didn't want to just pick a title from the classics rather wanting to get to the root of my joy and so the novel I have selected is On the Road by Jack Kerouac...
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Jan.13.2010
The Samurai Ideal and the New Samurai
From the forthcoming book Hanshi Damashi, by Stephen F Kaufman
What does it actually mean to be a samurai and to maintain the attendant bushido,“way of the warrior” mentality? It is certainly not an easy discipline. If it were simple, then it would have no...
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Dec.30.2009
This is a subject that really intrigues me as a person, teacher, and author. I am never less than astonished to find that most people think of happiness as an external factor in their lives because they can’t get their inner beings to function on a realistic plane. When people ask me about “...
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Dec.28.2009
What a fantastic Holiday Season I am experiencing! The sudden and dramatic acceptance of the latest Hanshi Warrior Press title, The Lady of the Rings - Musashi’s Book of Five Rings Interpreted for Women’s Empowerment is a pleasure to behold. I knew the work would get a good reception based on my...
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Dec.27.2009
Indifference and mediocrity are the result of frustration and confusion. They cause results to manifest as a less than a complete expression of any ideal. Both create disharmony and disturb plans for success because their nature is to interfere with true expression. Indifference and...
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Dec.21.2009
Just because you think something should happen does not always mean it will. Most of the time it won't. Regardless of how fervently you think about something, no matter how intensely you plan, there is no guarantee that it will happen unless you know it will happen. Knowing something...
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Dec.14.2009
The difference between praying for something and saying for something is that you speak to your inner self with a more convincing tone for the acceptance of your desire. When you say it, you take full responsibility for the outcome to manifest. Using the words I AM, I HAVE, and I WILL HAVE...
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Dec.10.2009
Hanshi Warrior Press announces the release of our newest title in time for the holidays:
THE LADY OF THE RINGS
Musashi’s Book of Five Rings Strategy for Women’s Empowerment
Worthy Shorts Press ISBN 978-1-935340-53-5, 120 pps, perfect bound, $12.95
Available for shipment 12/15/09. Now accepting...
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Dec.09.2009
A Tale of the Tahoma Woods
During a recent trip to Tacoma, WA to visit my friend Peggy, we decided to visit Mt. Rainier. (I like to call it Tahoma, the Indian name.) It was Veteran’s Day and the sky was filled with dark clouds and fog. Here is a brief recant of an event both of us will not...
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Stephen F. Kaufman is an acknowledged master speaker and educator and a teacher of ancient wisdom made practical for contemporary global society who entertains and educates audiences and groups by presenting the notions of what the ancient...
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