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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 is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.
Treat others in the way you would like to be treated and a harmony shall exist.
While performing the shomen uchi Ikkyo technique you must enter in first then raise your arms, not raise your arms then enter in.
The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.
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.
Be more attracted to the less aggressive side within the martial arts, control without destruction is the key.
To defeat an enemy with compassion over aggression will take great understanding. Introduce this as a part of your life’s philosophy.