Maestro Urban
4/11/2025
Peter George Urban, Ph. D., “The American Lion” ...
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The power of thoughts begins with understanding that thought is not always the ultimate solution. Sadhguru explains how existence is bigger than thought, a...
OKINAWA GOJU RYU HERITAGE So that we may properly refer to the legacy of Goju ryu karate developed in Okinawa by Master Miyagi Chojun, we must g...
From Father to Sons But Goju was not to remain the sole province of Japan and Okinawa. Mr. Yamaguchi's younger brother, Gosen Yamaguchi, was the first ...
It was near the end of the interview when we realized it. I asked when his father had passes away, and he gave me the date, May 20, 1989. “Come to think of it, what a coincidence!” said Gosei Yamaguchi. “In Japan they are a day ahead.” The date in San Francisco, where we spoke, was May 19, 1995.
Yet the conversation, while beginning with Mr. Yamaguchi’s famous father Gogen Yamaguchi and his life in Japan, had also traveled across the ocean, to the large, sunlit Goju-Kai dojo where we sat. For Gosei Yamaguchi has not merely carried on his father’s ways, but has continued them. Think of it” To follow the ways of an innovator, you, too, must innovate, and this Mr. Yamaguchi has done.
The place looks not unlike a typical college classroom. Fifteen to 20 people crowd around a couple of long, conference tables sandwiched toge...