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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.
Why do we bear arms at the slightest miscommunication? Our relationship with our ego craves always to be right.
The pursuit of powerful aggression within martial arts are the most often sought. This only creates more distance from one another and will never be the answer. Seek the pathless path in your journey and all will become clear in time.
Have patience while walking the path of Aikido there really is no final destination. Study sincerely in the moment for today is what matters. Tomorrow will come all too soon. Reflect in the journey this is the ultimate goal.
Respect should always be offered to the opponent first. Often this can lead an attitude of dis-harmony into a peaceful resolution.
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.
Treat others in the way you would like to be treated and a harmony shall exist.
The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.
Love never destroys; hate in itself bears the scars of countless battles.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.