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About the Founder/Instructor


JOE LAU, RN

Since 1985, which was his junior year in high school, Joe Lau has focused his training within these four fields and/or lineages:

  • The Warriorship skills of Soke Masaaki Hatsumi's Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu under Capt. Jack Hoban, Hatsumi Sensei's personal student.
  • The studies of the Natural Law and Life/Living Value Theories and teachings from the Life Values Institute, founded by Jack Hoban's college professor and mentor, Dr. Robert Humphrey.
  • The Wilderness Skills of Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School
  • The study of Emergency Department Nursing

Photo taken at the 1997 New Jersey Tai Kai Banquet.
Left to right:
Tom Brown, Jr., Joe Lau RN, Capt. Jack Hoban, and Soke Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi

Currently, Joseph Lau is:

A former Instructor (May 1996 - November 1997), former Senior Instructor (November 1997 - August 2001), former Assistant Manager and Website Developer (August 2001 - September 2005) at Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School.
A Shidoshi Instructor at Jack Hoban's Bujinkan Buyu Dojo Spring Lake, New Jersey. Joseph Lau still trains under Capt. Jack Hoban and visits Soke Hatsumi Sensei and his friends in Japan every year. He also tries to find time to train/teach with his BUYU Jon Haas and Josh Sager of the Princeton Buyu Dojo and teaches friends at his Bujinkan Buyu Shizen Ho Dojo.
A former Nationally Registered New Jersey EMT. He is now a Registered Nurse (A.A.S. Degree) from Warren County Community College in order to bring up his healing and medical skills. Joseph Lau currently works in the field of Emergency Medicine at Warren Hospital and Hunterdon Medical Center and is a member of the Emergency Nurses Association.

Teaching workshops on Dr. Robert L. Humphrey's Natural Law and Life/Living Value Theories and the Natural Duties in the U.S. and in Japan.

Joseph is also a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. http://www.isg-iags.org
The Essence of The Human Nature Institute

"My childhood was full of many near death experiences. I was born with a severe type of chronic, life threatening asthma which I have never outgrown. I knew hospital emergency rooms well.

During my time studying at the Tracker School, I learned a teaching called "the Sacred Question...WHY?" As long as I could remember, I too, asked myself this question. I wanted to understand why I was different...Why couldn't I breathe normally like everyone else? Why do I have to keep trying so hard to prevent my death? Also, my father died of a heart attack when I was thirteen. "Why?" was an obsession my whole life. It pervaded my being to get to the universal principles and common denominators of all things.

This lead me to studies of nature skills, martial arts and medicine. I had felt that I had found something within these areas of study. For the longest time, I wasn't quite clear as to why I was training in the wilderness skills and the martial arts. All I knew was that it was the right thing to do - it felt right. Friends and family did not understand.

Only after meeting and knowing Dr. Humphrey and his research through Jack Hoban did I begin to feel that I was getting closer to understanding the relationships of Nature and Humans. Natural Law and Life/Living Value Theories.

Natural Law Theories governing the Dual Life/Living Value Theories... Natural Rights and Natural Duties. The Natural Rights of the Self-Preservation Life/Living Value and the Natural Duties of the Species-Preservation Life/Living Value aspects of "Human Nature."

What were the physical manifestations of Natural Law and Life/Living Value Theories? I feel I have (so far) clarified them into four main categories...the 4 Life Supporting-Promoting Balancer Duty-Roles:


- In the universal Profiler-Duty of the Scout-Role, we train in the physical-moral principles and skills of awareness, information-gathering and critical thinkingproblem solving for prevention, preparation and solutions to the three other life needs below.
- In the universal Provider-Duty of the Hunter/Gatherer-Role, we train in the physical-moral principles and skills of the "Sacred Order" of Needs and other wilderness skills as well as economic skills to maintain and sustain life.
- In the universal Protector-Duty of the Warrior-Role, we train in the physical-moral principles and skills to protect and defend life.
- In the universal Preserver-Duty of the Healer-Role, we train in the physical-moral principles and skills of healing to preserve life.

I feel that education, training and practice of Natural Law and Life/Living Value Theories and the 4 Life Balancer Duty-Roles are of great importance in our understanding of human nature and help mature the course of humanity. As such...my life's focus is and will be entirely on the transmission of these perspectives to my children and grandchildren.