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To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.
To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.
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.
Within the martial arts, while competition in the form of sport exists, the art of Budo, a way of love may never be truly understood.
Aikido is a means of self-correction of Intention through reflection.
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.
Do not view martial arts as mere self-defence! You could miss out on so much more they offer.
Martial arts should not be a platform for displaying the ego. Methods that do can lead one down a wrong path.
The true martial artist has a caring spirit that sees all as one.
The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.