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Old 05-04-2007, 06:36 PM   #2
Paul Sanderson-Cimino
Dojo: Yoshokai; looking into judo
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Re: Parsing ai ki do

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido

It's three symbols which translate to, more or less, "joining-spirit-way".

The common character for harmony ("wa") does not appear in the name. The above translations might have some figurative validity, and are perfectly fair suggestions about the "deeper meaning" of aikido, but they have relatively little to do with the literal meaning of the word.
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