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    The document discusses Masaaki Hatsumi's views on teaching martial arts techniques. It states that techniques cannot be fully learned or understood through books alone, but must be experienced personally. Books can only be useful after personally learning the techniques. It also notes that certain Japanese martial arts concepts like "densho" only make sense once a person has experienced the techniques themselves.

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    The document discusses Masaaki Hatsumi's views on teaching martial arts techniques. It states that techniques cannot be fully learned or understood through books alone, but must be experienced personally. Books can only be useful after personally learning the techniques. It also notes that certain Japanese martial arts concepts like "densho" only make sense once a person has experienced the techniques themselves.

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    The document discusses Masaaki Hatsumi's views on teaching martial arts techniques. It states that techniques cannot be fully learned or understood through books alone, but must be experienced personally. Books can only be useful after personally learning the techniques. It also notes that certain Japanese martial arts concepts like "densho" only make sense once a person has experienced the techniques themselves.

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    The key takeaways are that ninjutsu techniques must be experienced personally and cannot be learned from books alone, and that ninjutsu aims to teach people to live morally and understand nature.

    The eight gates of the ninja are: 1) Ninja no kiai, 2) Ninja no taijutsu, 3) Ninja no kempo, 4) Ninja no soojutsu, 5) Ninja no shuriken, 6) Ninja no kajutsu, 7) Ninja no ugei, and 8) Ninja no kyomon.

    Hatsumi says the true meaning of being a ninja is to live a good life, love people, understand nature, and love the universe with a balanced kind of love that gives as well as returns.

    "This is why I do not like to write books anymore.

    Having the techniques


    done to you and experiencing it yourself is the only way to learn it. This
    stuff cannot be taught. It cannot be understood through mere words. It
    must be experienced personally. Books are for use after you know the
    techniques. It is the same for the densho. If you know the technique, and
    then read the words, it makes sense."

    -Masaaki Hatsumi

    huan manuel serrano +34 676 53 90 50

    http://www.oxfordshadowwarrior.co.uk/articles.html

    http://www.bujinkan-harstad.com/Articles/articles.htm

    http://www.spi.com.sg/spi_files/shinto_shrine/secrets_of_shinto.htm

    http://www.vedatalk.com/swdojo/essays.html

    "I believe that ninpo, the higher order of ninjutsu, should be offered to the
    world as a guiding influence for all martial artists."

    –Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi

    http://www.magokoro-dojo.org/Popups/ukemi.htm

    http://www.magokoro-dojo.org/Popups/kamae.htm

    'Ninja Quotes' from Hatsumi-sensei

    To add to the depth and flavor of role-playing 'ninja' characters (such as


    the turtles) I thought I would post these quotes I have come across by
    Hatsumi-soke:

    "The introduction of the ninja movement in the West, as I see it,


    is~moving in the wrong direction. Why? Because ninjutsu was originally
    taught in a secret manner, and this secrecy was kept and observed for
    many years.. Ninjutsu was not exposed. (Yet), those who never learned
    ninpo, those who just read books, for example, started to practice even
    though they had very wrong conceptions. It is therefore often thought that
    ninjutsu is used for assassinations and other evil purposes, and that those
    who practice it live in a `dark world'. Too many people believe that that is
    what a ninja is because that is the way it is being introduced."

    "Being a real ninja means living a good life, a life under the sun - a special
    place in the sun; to love people, to understand nature and animals, and to
    love the universe. This type of love I speak of must have a kind of balance
    in it: It is not only give and take, it is also give and return. The mind of a
    ninja is a mind of mercy, a mind of God. It is a state of mind that must be
    kept in order to live a straight, moral life."

    "Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the
    universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is
    the true meaning of ninja.."

    NINJA HACHIMON ("Eight Gates of the Ninja"):

    1. NINJA NO KIAI: (This involves an explosive expression of spirit and


    energy [ki] to others and to oneself.)
    2. NINJA NO TAIJUTSU: (Involves the study and practice of body
    techniques.)
    3. NINJA NO KEMPO: (This is the study of sword techniques.)
    4. NINJA NO SOOJUTSU: (This is the study of methods involving the spear
    or lance.)
    5. NINJA NO SHURIKEN: (This is the art of throwing knives, darts and star-
    shaped weapons.)
    6. NINJA NO KAJUTSU: (Involves the use of fire.)
    7. NINJA NO UGEI: (This is the art of deception and disguises.)
    8. NINJA NO KYOMON: (This is the study of religion, philosophy,
    meditation, history, mathematics, chemistry, physics and psychology.)

    "Since ancient times, study of the arts and sciences were as important to
    martial arts as the study of self defense techniques. Ninja no kyomon, the
    study of all aspects of religion, medicine, mathematics and other
    disciplines are necessary, for correct judgment and selfunderstanding."
    __________________
    "Ninpo began as training to become a moral people and to learn to endure
    in whatever social condition one is in; to know and accept one's fate, and
    to live for human beings and all other creatures. The person who masters
    all of these is a Ninja." (Masaaki Hatsumi)

    "Ninpo began as training to become a moral people and to learn to endure


    in whatever social condition one is in; to know and accept one's fate, and
    to live for human beings and all other creatures. The person who masters
    all of these is a Ninja." (Masaaki Hatsumi)

    http://www.yotsumedojo.com/Bujinkan%20Yotsume%20Dojo/index.html
    " The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and
    prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than delivering strikes
    and slashes, and deeper in significance than the simple outwitting of an
    enemy, Ninpô is the way of attaining that which we need while making
    the world a better place. The skill of the Ninja is the art of winning. "
    Toshitsugu Takamatsu

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