Meditation and the Martial Arts

Raposa's thesis — that meditation is itself a form of combat, and that martial disciplines and spiritual disciplines share deep structural kinship — is genuinely original and pursued with real philosophical ambition. A University of Virginia Press imprint and peer-reviewed credibility back up the argument. The catch is that reviewers noted the book tilts toward Western and Christian sources despite its broad comparative scope, and the academic prose assumes considerable background in religious studies — this is not a book for someone who just started tai chi.