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There are constant messages guiding our paths through life. To hear we must stop our busy lives a moment and listen.
There are constant messages guiding our paths through life. To hear we must stop our busy lives a moment and listen.
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.
Why do we study a lifetime of fighting within the martial arts? To seek a peaceful path to enlightenment.
It takes greater courage to lead by truth than to lead with fear and deception.
To care for others is the real martial art. To not care shows a disregard for yourself and the universe.
All techniques must blend with your partner. If felt by their physical they will be resisted by their physical.
With shomen uchi ikkyo don’t meet at the top – the person may perceive this as you defending and change the attack.
To win over an enemy with love is a far greater reward than to conquer the enemy with hate.
As there are opposites such as, positive and negative, yin and yang, war and peace. We should always strive to seek the art of peace.
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.