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Kotodama - At the Beginning - At Each Moment Vibrations
Everything is vibration. The Japanese have been around for over 1000 years or so. They inherited the concept and some applications of Kotodama from the Chinese. Atsutane argued that many efforts in the theoretical study of Shinto were based on the borrowed...
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Aikido's OS
“Generating harmony, not because it is easy but because it is not easy, despite all opposition. This is true Aikido…..” For millions of years, preceded by billions, certain predispositions of physics and cause and effect tried, tested, proved and became...
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The Street – Many Shades of Violence
There is more to violence than, “the street... When we hear about violence, often “the street” is mentioned, as if that’s the only place that violence takes place. Well I’m here to disillusion you. Only a small percentage of violence takes pace in the...
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Mother Nature is a Serial Killer!
"Mother Nature is a Serial Killer. No one's better, more creative, but, like all Serial Killers she can't help the urge to want to get caught. And what good are all those brilliant crimes, if no one takes the credit? So she leave crumbs. Now the hard...
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Who Controls the Technique, Uke or Nage?
I pretend to attack you telegraphing a single movement such as never exists in combat and you pretend to bowl me over with skill that is not there because I’m taking a dive. But is this really Aikido? A good stance and posture reflect a balanced state...
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Three Critical Assumptions
When someone plans to assault you, they usually take care to make sure that the assault will be as unfair as possible so as to advantage them and disadvantage you. Of course, when you successfully defend yourself they will whine and attempt to say that...
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Penetrate the Soft and Absorb Force
The best time to train is when you think you are “too tired” to train. That’s when the, “juice” begins to extract! When cowards meet in the field of combat nothing happens. They all slink away. Paradoxically this may also seem to happen with the enlightened,...
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Challenges Are Steppingstones
To convert aggression, violence, attack, indeed any challenge into a steppingstone is the prize.. What makes Aikido different? How did it come about? Yes, yes, we all think we know because we've read something, but let's assume for a moment that all writings...
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Why This Blog?
Survival and evolution is at our core as sentient beings. The Aiki attitude enables us to this end in the best and most sustainable way. Aikido is love, all love, from human to universal love. And love, as all the enlightened continually strive to remind...
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What's Normal?
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. "Normal" is a conformist concept born out of fear and doubt and everything that stifles our expanding, bright, light generating, natural creative potentials. "Normal"...
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Will Aikido Survive?
.. the influence of Aikido is unstoppable. It will continue to progress further than we can now see into the distant future. The history which led to the arrival of Aikido as we now know it, was a long one. Many hundreds of years. But is there as much...
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Aiki Juji — Keys to Unlocking Paramount Skill
If these fundamental combat principles are lost, Aikido dies the death and become a pretence where pushing someone over is the deluded goal.. If you cannot handle the primordial terror, then my friends of the dancey-ki-do, you are likely to come to harm. It...
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Fallow Field - Clearing the Weeds
"When life takes you away from training, do not worry. Because Aikido is natural and follows the principles of the Universe, it is like a food garden. When you have been away and return, it may have become overgrown with other herbs, but when you return...
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Wheat, Tares and Chaff
“One a day a tough biker from one of the mean clubs with a reputation, very humbly approached me thinking I was going to ban him on sight.” I don’t set out to laboriously screen candidate students who apply to train. The Universe does it for me. If they...
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The Dojo Oasis
“Dojo is family. Dojo is life. Dojo is tribe. Dojo is community. Dojo is clan. Dojo is humanity.” The dojo is a place where you go to reclaim yourself and fortify moral integrity. The body-mind connection and the practicing of tranquility in the midst...
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It’s Already Here! It Always Was!
..and inside the cave found a vast treasure trove of such immense wealth that it could have changed his life a long time ago. Everything could have been so different. “Lamed-Vav Tzadikim: Sacredness in the Ordinary” "It is said that at all times there...
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Value Yourself
You are relevant! Do not EVER let anyone suggest otherwise! “It’s only me!” How often do you hear this? Only! Only? Conversely, that same deep insecurity gives rise to much posturing and aggression in males. Notwithstanding, it arises from the same fear...
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Aikido - Universal Healing Art
Regular Aikido training serves to balance the body-mind connection and to harmonise the faculty of intention. It heals the deeply rooted psychic flaws and psychological inherited illness which predispose our species toward unconscious reactivity, violence,...
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When Does An Attack Begin?
We live, dwell, exist and have our being in a unified field of energy, a veritable ocean of many currents, an interwoven web of potential, of rates of vibration, symphonies, discords, waves and variables that constitute a cosmic keyboard of possibilities....
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A Smile and a Friendly word...
Some of my Aikido students have worked in security related professions. One in particular stands out. I’ll call him D… to protect his professional anonymity. Where it is possible to do so, he quietly approaches the suspect and says, “You’ve been caught..”...
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Energy Exchange & Value
If energy is not being exchanged, it is being stolen. I've proven to my satisfaction again and again that the best sales and marketing practices are ruthlessly transparent and honest because the product is solid. Marketing is relationship. Relationship,...
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The Aiki of Daily Life - Dealing Happily with Pretentious Arrogant Assholes
This girl is a keeper!!!! It happened at a New York Airport. This is hilarious. I wish I had the guts of this girl. An award should go to the United Airlines gate agent in New York for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with...
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Movement as Identity
I sat in my family living room a few hours ago, staring out the window as the sun began to lower itself casting innumerable long shadows through the pines. I was greeted by the sight of a friend I had not seen through all the long winter months - a little...
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Your Worst Enemy
This minor dojo incident is embedded in my memory. Minor it may have been but the outcomes will be of immense consequence for some. During a class, a geek who had not been training for about five years, was practicing with a retired battlefield hardened...
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Ki no Musubi – A Meeting of Minds
Uniting body and mind forms the active principle of ki. To Melanesians, being of "one mind," means exactly that. And this is why the more heavily populated Niuginis never successfully invaded them for over 50,000 years of trying to do so. In principles...