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Old 01-01-2008, 06:30 PM   #7
Rupert Atkinson
 
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Re: Takemusu

Hmm. You must bit a bit of a philosopher. I am not concered with why I am here in this instance. Keep phil out of it. When animals or people meet in confrontation, they do not debate phil.

Aiki is a trained skill. The animals have their place and in nature, we have lost ours. Learning aiki is not an attempt to return to the raw, rather, it is a new skill that is more conscious in that it has been developed/taught/learned. Learning aiki is an attempt to become more martial - takemusu etc. -- it is more refined than raw nature, it is alive, not dancing in kata.

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