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Old 03-17-2011, 07:11 PM   #24
RonRagusa
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Re: Aikido film

My spirit is my bond with the totality of existence. Before I began Aikido training I had no awareness of this side of myself. The progression of hours to days to weeks to months to years to decades of training has awakened me to the fact that I possess spirit and that with continued practice I am able to strengthen the body/mind/spirit connection.

For me Aikido is much more than just a bunch of techniques that I learn and then spend years perfecting. The whole notion strikes me as patently absurd. It's like saying Michelangelo spent his life perfecting his art in order to become a helluva chisel on stone man or a great painter of ceilings.

The spiritual side of Aikido isn't taught; it's found... or not.
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