Jon, please chill. I'm not jabbing at the author of the essay and I meant no disrespect to him by my comments. I don't disagree with the facts he presented. I think the essay was concise and nicely put together. But I thoroughly disagree with some underlying assumptions, and I do not think they were built on to sufficiently support Mr. Murray's conclusion, so I shared my thoughts.
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Neither Dan nor Mark post here anymore. I still don't know how Dan has any relevance to an essay from Mark, except to point out that Mark knows Dan.
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I do hope this was directed at Chris Li and not somehow to me, because I also didn't get the relevance of Dan or of Mr. Murray's experiences with him to the essay.
My main gripe with the piece is that while it argues very well that Ueshiba's actual teachings were different than what you get from the Aikikai or Ki Society (or etc), this is not enough to show that Ueshiba left any other "legacy."