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To have no compassion in your martial art, shows a cover up of our most natural instinct; “fear”.
To have no compassion in your martial art, shows a cover up of our most natural instinct; “fear”.
Look for a Sensei that can inspire you to search beyond technique. The longer you study the martial arts, clearer will be your understanding within the applied techniques.
To win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.
To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.
Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.
Why do we study a lifetime of fighting within the martial arts? To seek a peaceful path to enlightenment.
Aikido is a means of self-correction of Intention through reflection.
With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.
Learning to be soft when intimidated is the key to progress. If the ego will not yield to the attackers physical aggression a conflict of the physical to co-exist takes place. This restricts the true concepts of Aikido to be realised.
The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.