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Clarence Couch wrote:
While it's true that each and very person is carrying all their own personal baggage that's going to influence their decisions and comments, if Aikido is truly "enlightening", then folks should be able to "fight' thru that baggage (or at least ID and acknowledge it).
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When the intensity, severity, and sincerity of the practice picks up and the students are exhausted and sweaty, all thoughts of what aikido is, what aikido should be, the similarities and differences between our organizations and techniques, the colors of our belts, and so forth, all dissolve.
To someone not in the know, it looks like violence, To the practitioners, it's one shared mind, peace and harmony.
Hopefully, you learn to keep that mind occasionally outside of those conditions as well.
To me, that's the practice.
