The Spirit of Budo

This book comprises eighteen essays which appeared in the monthly

Budo magazine. They are written with simplicity and humour, but with

an underlying discipline and authority derived from a lifetime of spiritual

and martial arts training in Adhyatma Yoga, Judo and Zen. Trevor Leggett

addresses matters including sportsmanship, achieving freedom of mind,

training the inner self, developing an inner calm, and the four keys to

learning – instruction, observation inference and personal experience. He

looks at the cultivation of these Budo qualities and suggests ways in which

the lessons learned can be applied to daily life as well as to the practice

of the martial arts.