Is a stress-free and meaningful life possible today? We are daily bombarded by requests, actions, interrupts. The media pressure us with w...

“Better to spend three years looking for a good master than ten years training with a bad one.” Wushu wisdom. We live in a fast changing ...

“Change is the only constant in life” Heraclitus . Then why are we so afraid of it? In the post Organizational change  I have written th...

In the philosophy of all Martial Arts ‘body, mind and spirit’ have to be and work united in order to be successful in any combat situation....

In my previous posts I have deliberately omitted any connection to well-known book The Art of War by Sun Tzu. This book is one of the seven ...

Yin and Yang is a brilliant symbol and a superb allegory approach to describe excellence in leadership. Let me point out some of the possibl...

Last post about “ Different views on leadership ” discussed the differences between Western and Eastern leadership views. In searching for ...

Dao De Jing is a transcript of around five thousand Chinese characters in eighty-one chapters or sections. The chapter divisions were durin...

Tai Chi Quan (Tai Chi) is represented through steps by the coordinated actions of the body’s extremities, of the body as a whole including ...

The I Ching or Zhouyi – the Book of Changes is a collection of practical wisdom used as oracular statements and pertaining to every concei...

In my blog: Virtue – Morality – Ethics and leadership  I wrote that virtue motivates and morals and ethics constrain. To support that state...

In my blogs I have been using a term Dào (Dao, Tao) and would like to share with you my understanding of the meaning of the concept. Dào ...

The second example from China’s history for an outstanding leadership can be taken from the novel: Journey to the West . The main characte...

Better sweat in practice than bleed in battle (W ǔ Sh ù wisdom) The combats and strategies were a constant topic through the human hist...

In live situations, and similarly in martial arts, we learn by repetition and mileage, repeating the task again and again. Try to recall ho...

Dào – the Way and Confucianism Although Dào literally means ‘a way’ or one of its synonyms, the meaning was extended to mean ‘the Wa...

In the past, the main objective of martial arts was effective and efficient combat that regularly resulted in mortality or caused some deg...

A Chinese character for colour is 顏色 (yán sè) . Before the Five Elements Theory was used and according to Daoists’ believe, there were only...