Philosophy, strategy, fiction, martial arts, survival, history —
written from a life lived at full volume.
Twenty-two meditation traditions from around the world — fourteen months in a Theravada temple, six months in a Zen priory, nearly fifty years of martial arts. No mystique, no jargon. Volume One.
A journey through Jeet Kune Do — the mastery phase is not about more techniques. It is about less. Nearly thirty years of JKD, distilled. Kindle and paperback.
Volume One: The Backstory. A temple singer in ancient Ugarit writes the Hurrian Hymn, dies unburied in battle — and an interrupted rite curses him to walk the ages.
The complete preparedness manual — food, water, shelter, medicine, and security for when the grid goes down. From a lifetime of survival and high-risk security work.
Twelve lives throughout the ages — from Fu Hao to Musashi. Military history told as it really was: brilliant, brutal, and human.
Daniel in the lions' den. Socrates and the hemlock. Leonidas at the Gates of Fire. Eight lives that were given every reason to bend — and refused.
Co-written with Gary Dill, Richard's JKD instructor of fifteen years. The untold story of JKD's creation — and long-overdue credit to James Yimm Lee.
Over fifty reflections on life, pain, and awakening — written by a man who has walked through darkness and returned with light.
Fragments of wisdom, truth, and humor from a lifetime of discipline, written in the cadence of old-world scripture.
When a sacred feather escapes the flames of the eternal phoenix, a boy named Mythos is chosen to find what was never meant to be lost.
Full per-book Amazon links live at richardvigslist.com — the author's home page.