The Truth of the Calm Spirit
The Truth of the Calm Spirit: The practice of Shinkage-ryū Heihō as Taoist Internal Alchemy (opens in a new tab) is a collected set of works that stem from martial arts essays centered around my practice of Kashima-shinden Jikishinkage-ryū and efforts to read its earlier writings. The work’s title is inspired from an earlier name of the art used by Ogasawara Genshinsai: Shin (True) no Shin (Spirit) In (Calm/Still/Yin) Heihō.
NOTE: This work was revised in May 2026.1
End Notes
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The gokui list in TOCS originally included an entry called “nenshi” (thought/contemplation). This was a large annotation in one densho that summarized a two-link teaching poem called a rika. It has been removed from the list in the current version — the poem is now described in the section associated to one of the formal gokui called seikōsui. ↩
