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Old 12-12-2008, 11:54 PM   #238
Joe McParland
 
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Re: The continued Evolution of Aikido

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Musashi, Five Rings wrote:
When you look at the world, the various arts have been tailored to be items for sale. Likewise, a person thinks of himself as something to be sold and even the implements of these ways are proffered as merchandise. This mentality divides the flower and the fruit into two, and makes much less of the fruit than the flower. In this Way of the Martial Arts, especially, form is made into ornament, the flower is forced into bloom and technique is made into display: one talks of this or that dojo, teaching this Way or that Way, in an attempt to gain some benefit. Someone has said that "the immature martial art is a source of great injury," and this is certainly the truth.
I'll wait for someone to tell us what Musashi really meant