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twinkletoes
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Well, then it's a lifestyle thing. Many of us who train in the martial arts full-time, as a lifestyle, do not train it as Budo the way you suggest.
I train martial arts every day, as an occupation, a recreation, a fitness activity, an exercise in personal expression, and a lifelong passion. However, because it does not enter into spiritual decisions, I do not consider it to be any kind of "life-code" or anything similar.
I think it will be much more common to find people who participate very much in the martial arts without that spiritual aspect to it in the US. I do not mean that US martial artists are exclusively one or the other, but that most martial artists in the US will not choose disciplines that take that approach. I think that is a generalization that I can stand by.
~TT
