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To show compassion is one of the highest values. Strive within your martial art to make this your priority.
To show compassion is one of the highest values. Strive within your martial art to make this your priority.
The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.
To train a life time acquiring skills of self-defence only to seek retribution in the destruction of others becomes a wasted journey; a path of self-destruction.
To care for others is the real martial art. To not care shows a disregard for yourself and the universe.
Uke’s part in trying to hold nage with strength within the technique, teaches spiritual & physical flexibility.
To seek the path of ego within the martial arts will seed jealousy and corruption.
When performing Nikkyo to the wrist, enter and then apply the pressure to the wrist, don’t apply pressure to the wrist first.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
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.
To view one as an enemy is to see ourselves without having any wrong.