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Francis Takahashi wrote:
His Silver Bridge was not only his to cross, but for the entirety of mankind, and for as long as we all believed in, and upheld Aiki Principles.
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What precisely are the Aiki Principles, and how are they manifested?
I could say, for example, that I am the inheritor of the Ballet Principles of Mikhail Baryshnikov. But if I can't explain what those principles are, how they apply, or demonstrate them at some level, then that would seem somewhat odd, wouldn't it?
I could dismiss all those stories of him leaping through the air as irrelevant past events (even though many people saw them), but wouldn't that then be just an attempt to justify my own inability?
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Francis Takahashi wrote:
Make a cult of it if you like, and proclaim pre-eminence from the highest street corner. I simply do not care.
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If you didn't care then...why are you writing about it?
Mostly, what you're seeing is an anti-cult - groups of people who are trying to test basic assumptions and demonstrate the conclusions for themselves.
Best,
Chris