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Keith Gates wrote:
And I am not here to promote a dead Sensei I never even met.
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Couldn't you at least give him a teensy-weensy eleventh dan out of the goodness of your heart?
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Modern man tries to impose his will onto all sorts of things, even nature, perhaps ultimately to his own demise. This is not Aikido, this is not living in accordance with the way, it is not truth.
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Ermmmmmm.... that's pretty fraught with Christian symbolism, so I'll pass. I think you're missing the fact that the "power" is usually used in conjunction with the opponent's power; thus the opponent's power/attack is used to defeat him.
FWIW
Mike Sigman