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To understand compassion one must first live compassionately.
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.
With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.
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.
As there are opposites such as, positive and negative, yin and yang, war and peace. We should always strive to seek the art of peace.
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 view one as an enemy is to see ourselves without having any wrong.
Why do we bear arms at the slightest miscommunication? Our relationship with our ego craves always to be right.
There are constant messages guiding our paths through life. To hear we must stop our busy lives a moment and listen.