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Well, I believe that there is a legitimate, scholarly body of work to demonstrate the concept of budo.
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Can you summarize what that body of scholarly writing indicates is budo? I have my own ideas about what budo is, but they would not, I think, be exactly "scholarly." I would be content to defer to a well-researched and well-reasoned definition of the term "budo." I suspect that if you can't offer such a definition, this thread may end up, as many do on Aikiweb, with endless quibbling over terms. Mind you, you're likely to get people who will question and argue about it regardless.
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Many do seem to maintain that they can re-define it to suit them, which of course, means that discussion is fruitless.
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Yes. Essentially, you're asking for at least a partial definition of what Aikido is, which people on Aikiweb, perhaps overly-influenced by the all-pervading postmodernism of western culture, are loathe to do.
I don't think that Aikido, as it is practiced generally, can rightly be described as budo.
Regards,
Jon.