[Gazelle]

'The martial way' is simply a phrase that has no set definition; therefore they have not even any agreed meaning to dampen a persons individual interpritation. Therefore, no one can become close to being wrong, technically.

My take on it, i think is that one does not need to train in a martial art to live this 'way', but to have the ideal basic 'mentality' that i think a true martial artist has.

I think it is associated with awareness, the quest of refinement (apologies for the vagueness of this), patience, the ability to do what needs to be done without complaint or hinderance, to discover and follow your own 'code of life' (after all, a martial artist, i think is a person first and a soldier second, if at all, and, even a soldier must follow his/her own guide), but not just any code of life, one that is associated with finding their balance between life and death, killing and not, (perhaps, if it was further back i would say something about being a warrior in there, if one was to put it more inconjunction with martial arts, but, i think that could be sufficiently explained away simply by saying that someone 'lives the martial way' and 'is a warrior/martial artist/soldier/whatever appropriate (i have no time to linger on this point)' - 'warrior' being used in a fighting sense - but i think now, that has faded out of neccesity now at any rate).

All in all, 'martial way' is simply personal quest to better themselves. But note, at least in my view this is not the 'single way'. One can go on a personal quest to give themselves higher standing in things (cash, power, whatever), that is not to me living the martial way, this is not a 'quest of refinement' in the sense i am meaning it.

Of course, that is in my little world, from my little perspective. If you account for everyone's perspective, then technically, everyone is most probably living every 'way' imaginable, and therefore living a 'single way', as you stated, Zefff. But, i think one should judge the world through your own eyes, not others, but using others to better clarify and refine your own.