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Why is there so much energy given to the art of war? The art of peace requires so little!
Why is there so much energy given to the art of war? The art of peace requires so little!
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.
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.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
Love never destroys; hate in itself bears the scars of countless battles.
To care for others is the real martial art. To not care shows a disregard for yourself and the universe.
With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.
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.
To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.
Why do we bear arms at the slightest miscommunication? Our relationship with our ego craves always to be right.