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To live only in today or the past leaves no room for tomorrow.
It is not aggression from the martial artist that you should fear! It’s the calm from the lack of aggression you should fear the most.
To hate or to not hate an enemy! It starts within your mind! Train to see all from the same perspective.
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.
While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.
Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.
The use of aggression for the martial artist is to cover up there anger and or fear. This contributes to their miss-understanding to truly know themselves.
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.
Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.