Nicklaus Suino has established himself as an authoritative writer about and
   practitioner of the Japanese martial tradition. He writes balanced, thoughtful
   works on budo, and this latest work is no exception.

   Budo Mind and Body is, in fact, a modified version of his 1996 work Arts of
   Strength, Arts of Serenity. The current book contains five short chapters:
   Training the Body, Training the Mind, Budo Culture, Three Martial Virtues, and
   Training the Spirit. In these short sections, Suino provides cogent, down to
   earth analyses of the process of walking the martial path in Japan's modern
   arts. Despite the breathless editorial subtitle that hints at "training
   secrets," Suino does a nice job of expressing how the study of budo is a
   process requiring discipline, patience, and effort. The results can be profound
   and transformative, as Suino clearly believes, but his conviction that these
   results are achieved through rigorous training comes as a nice corrective to
   popular ideas about the martial arts and magical skill.

Excerpted from a review by John Donohue, Ph.D., Albertus Magnus College

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