I had the fortune or misfortune to start yoga at the tender age of 5 years and were now for me is my salvation and my effort.
Salvation was generated by the nourishment that my curious mind had finally found a suitable stimulus to seek freedom without affecting the morale that becomes a target of respect in decay times.
The study of the classics was instrumental in the eastern divide the junk from the real masters
and without a search of the roots this would not have been possible.Teachers were the Buddha Gautama, Patanjali, Bhagavad Gita (Krisnha), Tibetan yoga with his masters Tilopa, Naropa and Milarepa together Hatha-yoga master BKS Indian Iyengar, still living, through the Chinese Chan Buddhism.
With the passage of time, the primordial dream has gone from a form to a philosophical ideal and not a physical place as my dojo asrham becoming my home and my family. Here I live in the real form together with my family in a home gym surrounded by greenery and open to the who wish to understand the essence so that people see what they are and not what I say, thus avoiding words without substance.
In a more general sense the difficulty is rather seek the truth without being buried by the greyness of materialism or dogmatic truths, without affecting my will or the freedom of others. So after more than forty years of study, I decided to write the memoirs of a master martial arts and Yoga.
Because over time I realized that there is no difference between yoga and martial arts but especially no difference between the daily life, science, philosophy and religion, the three discriminant that divide humanity in the body (matter), mind and spirit.
At last when i became a master of Karate-Do, Wado-Ryu style, and I founded a style of yoga based on the ancient Indian and Tibetan traditions, i just translated the ancient texts and i have not added anything of my own. Why I did this, simple to give an order to my research, and to making legible the world of yoga and martial arts to the Italian people and all those who want to know.
From an early age we all ask ourselves questions. As children grow, their questions often receive answers, explanations and rationalizations, until their natural curiosity begins to fade.
However, sensitive people, sooner or later, they find themselves asking the same questions: "Where am I? What is the meaning of life? What happens when I die? Why is there so much hatred and violence? Who am I? ".
This doubting mind is present in the minds of all people spiritually sensitive, and certainly in the life of the great masters of all traditions. But how painfully we see in our life and the lives of the people we love, people often ignore, repress or suppress these questions hides under all sorts of fun or pleasure, and gives them a response based on fear or ignorance. But for some people these questions and the deep need for knowledge continue to emerge. For these people, there is no escape or rest the great dilemma to be solved.
My Philosophy
As the blacksmith straightens an arrow, a wise man governs his thoughts, by their nature unstable, restless and difficult to control.
Thoughts quiver and they struggle to escape death as fish taken to their abode liquid and thrown on land.
The mastery of one's mind, rebellious, capricious and wandering is the way to happiness.
The essay observes continuamentei own thoughts, which are subtle, elusive and wandering. This is the way to happiness.
Thoughts, bodiless and wandering, wandering away. Pick them up in the cave of the heart and freed from the bondage of desire and death......... Dhammapada III, 33,34,35,36,37
My Equipment: The koan....
A koan is, literally, the transcription of a "public event" happened in the past; or, like a Zen master said, "the place where the truth lies."
Generally speaking, koans are taken from authentic dialogues between Zen masters and students, or between advanced practitioners, or from the sutras or ancient sayings. Most of the time, koans are paradoxical in nature and can not be included by the intellect. Thus, a koan can be understood only through direct experience of the mind authentic, from which it was born.
The sayings and dialogues which turned into koan are collected in various texts, such as the Mumonkan and Collection of blue rock. They were, and still are, used as guides for the education zen.