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Gernot Hassenpflug · 07-10-2008, 05:25 PM

I think I'll subscribe to the idea that bujutsu (and budo I suppose, or other kinds of "shugyo") practice elevate one to another plane. Depending on how you wish to define that once you've arrived! Certainly, the fact that a great many previously cherished notions, thought-patterns and world-views are going to have to be discarded is enough to change the person practicing quite substantially.

07-10-2008, 05:25 PM	#3
Gernot Hassenpflug Dojo: Aunkai, Tokyo Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 319 Offline	Re: Is the Goal of Aikido to reach another plane? I think I'll subscribe to the idea that bujutsu (and budo I suppose, or other kinds of "shugyo") practice elevate one to another plane. Depending on how you wish to define that once you've arrived! Certainly, the fact that a great many previously cherished notions, thought-patterns and world-views are going to have to be discarded is enough to change the person practicing quite substantially.