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Monday, November 17, 2008

Joe Hyams RIP 1923-2008

Author Joe Hyams died last week. Hard to believe he was 85.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hyams12-2008nov12,0,6624967.story



If you're a martial artist and you haven't read "Zen in the Martial Arts" then you're either training alone in a vacuum or your instructor and classmates have let you down by not telling you about this book.



Published in '79, I think I first read it back in "86 and it still resonates today. I think I'm on my 4th or 5th copy as I continually lend them out. Not a big problem as it's a fairly inexpensive printing and chock full of info. I still find myself drawing from some of the mental concepts in my teaching. But not the one of going to the dentist without medication. Had a teacher who tried it once though.



If Joe had done nothing else, this would be a great legacy. But he wrote and did so much more.

2 comments:

Mike 'Bwana' Blackgrave said...

It was one of the first books I purchased when I began my journey...an excellent read. RIP JOE

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