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ESCalderon Blog Tools Rate This Blog
Creation Date: 01-16-2007 07:42 AM
Erik Calderon
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Erik Calderon's Martial Arts Program
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Entries: 98
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In Spiritual Are We Really Learning to Fight? Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #80 New 05-25-2017 04:36 PM
I've heard it said many times, "the enemy is not of the flesh." Something so hard to understand. We train ourselves in Aikido to protect ourselves from someone, an enemy, attacking us.

But that person isn't really our enemy, "the enemy is not of the flesh," so in Aikido not only are we taught to protect ourselves, but also the person attacking. He or she is our brother or sister.

Yea, sometimes we really want to hurt someone, but isn't that because we're hurting on the inside. Something to think about...
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