To hate or to not hate an enemy! It starts within your mind! Train to see all from the same perspective.

To hate is to know love. Strive to love over hate, if we are all to survive.

To overcome fear one must have lived with fear.

If you study the martial arts with aggression and malice this will eventually bring you to view the world from a fearful place.

Those who only seek destruction within the martial arts are disconnected to themselves and all fragile life.

To understand compassion one must first live compassionately.

A martial artist should not be measured on their ability to hurt or destroy an enemy but how they can change aggression into the art of peace.

The enlightened martial artist sees no enemy but the one within.

To understand Aikido’s many layers-consistency is the “ki”

To defeat an enemy with compassion over aggression will take great understanding. Introduce this as a part of your life’s philosophy.