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David Skaggs wrote:
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George S. Ledyard wrote:
I do not think that it is necessary to attempt to duplicate exactly the elements that O-Sensei combined to create his own Aikido. He did what worked for him in his time and culture. But I do think that to have any meaningful sense of what the Founder was modeling for us, we need to acheive much that same balance between the spiritual side of our practice and the martial side.
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So I could achieve that balance if the ethical and moral goals of my practice of Christianity are similiar to the ethical and moral goals of O'Sensei's practice of his eclectic religious beliefs?
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"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said, is from the Holy Spirit." St. Thomas Aquinas, cit. 1 Cor. 12:4-11 (paraphrasing St. Jerome).