09/06/2025
Everyone is studying Ninjutsu. Understand?
In essence, Ninjutsu ( 忍術 ) is the art of patience,perseverance,endurance and fortitude.
No matter what martial art style you practice, you are in truth, practicing Ninjutsu!
“Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu.” ..
宗家Hatsumi
In fact, it doesn’t even have to be a martial art, it can be music,painting,dancing,carpentry etc.
All of these arts require 忍耐力 [にんたいりょく (nintairyoku)] stoicism and patience to develop masterful skill and to enrich ones life and that of others. Life is Ninjutsu!
Unfortunately, people get too caught up with the past and the Ninjutsu attributed to feudal Japan. Those days are past. Now, practitioners study the historical arts as guiding principles and practices with a strong sense directed at personal development and cultural understanding ( Ninpō 忍法 ). Enthusiasts study the ancient ways and philosophical teachings that have stood the tests of time to find a positive path of personal growth.
Ninpō 忍法 (rules/law of perseverance) acts as a way for many to live by. Through practicing the old martial arts, people can find an enjoyable,culturally enriching way of developing and promoting a meaningful and productive lifestyle.
So in closing, if you don’t believe in Ninjutsu, then maybe you do not believe in persevering in your own life or your practice and study to improve yourself in mind,body and spirit? If so, you are still living in the past and therefore unfortunately captured by what your uninitiated,misguided or self ignorant belief of the art is.
Ninjutsu is beyond form or style. Ninjutsu is the very essence of nature. It’s teachings are for survival and living a purposeful life. Anything else is merely smoke and mirrors to teach you to look beyond the Kyo 虚( deception of worldly desires ) to the Jutsu 実( reality ). Practitioners of Ninjutsu understood the power and necessity of disguise and deception; the very requirements for survival against overwhelming odds. It’s not the strongest who survives, but the ones that understand nature and can adapt.
Those with the maturity, sensibility and correct open heart and mind will accept and live this path naturally.
This is Ninjutsu 忍術.
南虎