The way of the sword is one way of knowing. It is that of the warrior who guards their village from those who would harm for ‘take’. Life is mutual. Reciprocal. When our existence becomes one-sided and greedy, helpless and lacking ancestral lore and wisdom existence becomes Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance.

A way of living well is uncomplicated by worry, unruffled by fear, aware that we are a species amongst countless others, in the company of all that lives, every standing stone we pass to navigate home, every breath we take and give, every river, lake, rainstorm, mist and snow, every star pattern with which to negotiate the hunt.

That is happening. What do we do but become empty and calm? To replace the fruit by replacing the seed within soil?

Yasei-no-shika: wild deer.