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Carsten Möllering wrote:
Actually I think it is only the transmission of knowledge that provides the quality of aikidō. I think practicing budō is about transmission of what is already there, transmission of what was known by those before us. It is not about searching and exploring. It is about finding and revealing.
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How are they different?
Toby Threadgill has pointed out that, even in the koryu, the transmission is never perfect. There are no perfect teachers and no perfect students. Every generation loses things. If the art is going to survive, every generation has a responsibility to rediscover part of what has been lost.
Katherine