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Old 05-11-2010, 11:58 PM   #36
Nafis Zahir
 
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Re: Tohei resignation letter

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Carsten Möllering wrote: View Post
Hi,

Tohei Sensei sent what we call in in German an "open letter" (Don't know whether this word exists in English?) to the aikikai affiliated dojo all over the world and it was - as far as I know - addressed to the aikido-public: To the people doing aikikai-aikido. Up to then he was the main teacher of the aikikai.

This letter was definitely not a private one. - Neither was the answer of Abe Sensei. - It was meant by Tohei Sensei to be read by every student of aikikai aikido.

So why shouldn't it be published again after all those years?
Is it still impossible to look back without anger?
Maybe our look on those conflict here in Germany is more relaxed because we didn't suffer such a split of aikido as you did in the US? (Over here there is nearly no Ki-Aikido.)
But is this really more than a "historical issue" today?

Hm and:
It's not Tohei Sensei who doesn't show this letter to the public. It's the addressees. The aikikai dojo which have it in their records.

Carsten


Not only would I like to see the letter, but Abe Sensei's response as well.

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