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Demetrio Cereijo wrote:
If the individidual will has joined the universal will, then the individual has lost his own free will.
Is losing your free will what is aikido about in your definition?
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Ah: I see what you meant.
It's an equivocation: I didn't mean will in the sense of 'free will': I meant it in the sense that Schopenhauer would use it.
Essentially, there is the Zen belief that we lose our 'Buddha nature' - our natural state of being; a natural state of being that every part of the universe has, but which we lose because we can - and do - deliberate about things.
Hence why some people speak of aikido as 'misogi': a form of purification.
'A fish swimming as a fish, a bird flying as a bird...'
If we do what is natural, we will be in accord (harmony) with the rest of the universe; to do what is unnatural, is to be disconnected from the rest of the universe/nature.