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If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
Those who only seek destruction within the martial arts are disconnected to themselves and all fragile life.
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.
A martial artist should always train the mind as well as the body, but not always moving in synchronization.
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 train a life time acquiring skills of self-defence only to seek retribution in the destruction of others becomes a wasted journey; a path of self-destruction.
We are all of this earth, do not fight or lay greed. The earth is plentiful if we can all learn to share it.
To care for others is the real martial art. To not care shows a disregard for yourself and the universe.
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.