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Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
As there are opposites such as, positive and negative, yin and yang, war and peace. We should always strive to seek the art of peace.
To win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.
Don’t be attracted only to powerful techniques within a martial art you do see, but more in the peaceful path of what you don’t see.
To care for others is the real martial art. To not care shows a disregard for yourself and the universe.
To defeat an enemy with compassion over aggression will take great understanding. Introduce this as a part of your life’s philosophy.
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.
Compassion is a powerful word. In it contains all of what is martial and what is art. Yet without the years in its study one may not come to understand its true meaning.
The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.