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To understand compassion one must first live compassionately.
It’s less important how strong others see you. And far more important in the strength you see in yourself.
The true martial artist has a caring spirit that sees all as one.
Uke’s part in trying to hold nage with strength within the technique, teaches spiritual & physical flexibility.
To defeat an enemy with compassion over aggression will take great understanding. Introduce this as a part of your life’s philosophy.
Learning to receive holds like nikkyo, sankyo, kotegashi etc. Is the study of extending ki out of an arm that is constantly flexible.
To have no compassion in your martial art, shows a cover up of our most natural instinct; “fear”.
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.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
To seek the path of ego within the martial arts will seed jealousy and corruption.