The Ninja’s Path – Inspirational Sayings for the Silent Assassin. Kazai!
A few years ago I had the pleasure of working with the most frustrating, aggravating people on the planet (you’ve been there, too). And when I finally removed myself from the situation, I had a storehouse of negative emotions eating at me. I needed catharsis, but I don’t box, hunt, or even hurl inanimate objects. I gave up cooking ants with a magnifying glass thirty years ago. I’m just not a violent person. Outwardly. As many of you know, my imagination is a different story. I once had a gallery art show featuring some of my comic art. I stepped up next to a woman looking at my work and she said to me, “Man, Jeremy Robinson sure is a violent person.” The point is, my catharsis would come from my imagination. But the product couldn’t just be freakishly violent. It also had to be funny because I needed to find my sense of humor again. The resulting project was THE NINJA’S PATH – INSPIRATIONAL SAYINGS FOR THE SILENT ASSASSIN, a very funny, very violent parody on inspirational books written and illustrated under the pen name, Kutyuso Deep (sound it out).
The book contains seventy illustrations and inspirational sayings along with seven chapters of text that reveal the seven pillars of ninjitsu. This hard cover tome of hilarity makes for the perfect Christmas gift for pretty much any man, teenage or adult, and while women aren’t the target audience, most find the book funny too. If you leave this sucker on the coffee table, your next gathering will have more than a few memorable conversations. I promise.
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Here’s the book’s description:
WITH SEVENTY ILLUSTRATIONS portraying the simple joys of the ninja lifestyle, this concise and elegantly designed book gives ninjas messages of peace and illumination in the virtues, rewards, ideals, and emotions of their chosen profession—silent assassination. The Ninja’s Path is for anyone who understands that the “wellness” messages typically spouted by the world leave the silent assassin a castrated version of his former self, overflowing with useless emotions like compassion and love.
Kutyuso Deep calls on all ninjas—aspiring and professional—to ignore all that! Instead, with this book in hand, they can finally focus on the pure and simple pleasures that come from intimidating those around them, stalking a target from the shadows, or eviscerating an enemy in his sleep.
Ninjas can now turn their attention to the seven pillars of ninjitsu wellness—Social, Occupational, Spiritual, Intellectual, Emotional, Environmental, and Physical—as poetically described and exquisitely illustrated in this book. Each pillar is represented by ten core values for which the author has provided an inspirational saying and illustration to help reveal how each value applies to the ninja.
And here’s a quick excerpt:
How do you feel about killing?
Don’t answer quickly. Ponder the question. Let your mind flash back and experience every evisceration, strangulation,and dismemberment. Taste it afresh. Smell the blood. The bile. Feel the gore between your fingers and toes. Hear the cries for mercy and the ting! of blade on bone.
This is your job.
Your occupation.
You are a ninja.
The silent assassin.
And your profession is a noble one—
perhaps the noblest.
