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You can own a sword, display a sword or collect to sell swords. But the way of the samurai sword is only revealed to the user.
You can own a sword, display a sword or collect to sell swords. But the way of the samurai sword is only revealed to the user.
It takes greater courage to lead by truth than to lead with fear and deception.
Your brain doesn’t always understand what your eyes see. Training is the only option to unlock the many facets to the martial arts.
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.
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.
It is not aggression from the martial artist that you should fear! It’s the calm from the lack of aggression you should fear the most.
Martial Arts should not focus entirely on the destruction of an enemy but in ways it can strive to embrace the enemy.
The study of one’s posture within Aikido is as much spiritual as it is physical.