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To win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.
To win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.
To seek the path of ego within the martial arts will seed jealousy and corruption.
Why is there so much energy given to the art of war? The art of peace requires so little!
Learning to receive holds like nikkyo, sankyo, kotegashi etc. Is the study of extending ki out of an arm that is constantly flexible.
In ikkyo the hand on the elbow must travel in the same direction as the hand on the wrist.
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.
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.
If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.
The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.