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Old 09-27-2011, 09:45 AM   #29
donhebert
Dojo: River Valley Aikido
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Discussion of Spirituality from an Aikido Perspective.

Hi Keith,

I respect what you are saying (which means, of course that I am about to disagree). Certainly "Aikido as a metaphor for something else" has its value. But metaphors only get me so far. I experience Aikido spirituality as the thing that is happening in the very moment when I am practicing and I think one can actually create a practical training framework for this process which is just as valid as the physical doing part.

I was in closer agreement when you said "For me Aikido is much like a Zen Koan, it asks of us a seemingly impossible question, this acts to force us into a state of intuition."

Best regards,

Don Hebert
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