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Training in a martial art has no end, just a beginning.
The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.
To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.
We are all of this earth, do not fight or lay greed. The earth is plentiful if we can all learn to share it.
After a life time study in martial arts you may come to the realization that fighting or not fighting, is really the same.
A martial artist should not be measured on their ability to hurt or destroy an enemy but how they can change aggression into the art of peace.
Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.
Learning to be soft when intimidated is the key to progress. If the ego will not yield to the attackers physical aggression a conflict of the physical to co-exist takes place. This restricts the true concepts of Aikido to be realised.
There really are no throws in Aikido only the art of leading your partners ki with your ki in a unified direction. Anything other than this opposes harmony and will inevitably be a throw.