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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 hate or to not hate an enemy! It starts within your mind! Train to see all from the same perspective.
Why do we study a lifetime of fighting within the martial arts? To seek a peaceful path to enlightenment.
All techniques must blend with your partner. If felt by their physical they will be resisted by their physical.
Learning to receive holds like nikkyo, sankyo, kotegashi etc. Is the study of extending ki out of an arm that is constantly flexible.
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.
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.
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 bear arms at the slightest miscommunication? Our relationship with our ego craves always to be right.