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Erick Mead wrote:
Does desire for power help or impair the learning or operation of Aiki as O Sensei understood it?
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If a car has somehow landed on top of your child, won't you "desire" the "power" to get the car off your child?
Is it wrong to desire that power?
Like all budo, aikido is meant for instant victory in the time of need--whatever the need may be.
If you could have had the power to save your child but you chose to eschew it because you abstractly decided the power was "bad," and your child dies because you abstractly dithered over what to do, then after that fact, you will not have to be told that you were wrong.
David