Budd

What's particularly interesting to me about these discussions is how much personal responsibility it puts back onto the individual practitioner to do the work, level set with his/her teacher, get out and meet other people (another form of level setting), then get back to doing the work. To me, anyway, this doesn't violate anything that I consider to be BUDO, in that it's still a matter of martial-based movement/training utilized for personal development, but it does give me more of a stake and ownership in the matter, rather than assuming that twenty years down the line somewhere, I just "may" get it . . .