On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology Book

Introduction     1
The Body as a Temple     9
More Than Martial, More Than Art: Martial Arts and the Alteration of Consciousness     23
In the Company of a Nomadic Samurai and a Chinese Poet Warrior: The Strategies of Martial Arts Applied to Everyday Life     33
The Princess and the Warrior, the Yin and the Yang: The Feminine in the Martial Arts     47
The Warrior's Rites     59
In the Dojo     60
When I Remember Who I Am, Nothing Is a Problem: The Practice     61
The Master     64
The Weapons     66
Kata and Forms     69
Styles (Part One)     71
Styles (Part Two)     73
Martial Arts, Media, and Myth     75
Six Warrior Archetypes     87
The Samurai     88
The Ninja     91
The Searchers     93
The Hermit     94
The Ronin     95
The Tribal Warrior     97
The Warrior As Bodhisattva     101
Making Order Out of Chaos: A Typology of Martial Arts Styles     115
Introduction     117
The Model     118
Performance Arts     119
Internal Arts     121
WeaponArts     124
Self-Defense Arts     127
Combat Sports     130
Grappling     131
Striking     134
Combined Combat Sports     137
Conclusion     137
Finding the Buddha in a Cage: The Difficult Marriage Between Martial Arts Philosophy and No-Holds-Barred Competition     141
Epistemological Anarchism: The Philosophy of Jeet Kune do     153
Introduction     154
Not New, Yet New     157
The Break with Chinese Tradition     159
If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him: JKD's Allergy for Authority     163
Martial Arts Styles as Ideological Prisons: Freedom from Belonging     166
Using No Way as the Way: Lee's Epistemological Anarchism     171
Simplicity     176
Philosophy Goes to the Movies (And Spills Popcorn All Over Itself)     177
Jeet Kune Do as the Archetypal Martial Art of the 1960s     181
Sacred and Profane: Combat Sports As Athletic Philosophy     185
On Failed Friendships, Martial Arts, Nietzsche, and Self-Perfection     201