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11-24-2003, 05:22 PM
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#301
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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I will be fine over the Holidays, I have so much work to do here on various writing projects, so please not to worry. But there are many people who are out there and very lonely during this season - be a good friend over the Holidays!
Btw, there will be a special on the Samurai on the History Channel on Dec. 8th or around this date. Please check your local listings, I will post more detailed information as I find out. Yours truly will have a short interview on this program. I am very shy and just mention it here in this thread for a few of my friends here. Much later in the month, there will be another special on A&E in which I am also featured. Many thanks!
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11-24-2003, 05:58 PM
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#302
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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I accidentally posted this in Haiku so I hope it is okay to post it again here:
Not as warm as the sounds of training,
Not as warm as the students' smiles,
Not as warm as their nightly goodbyes,
This old heater in my cold office!
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11-24-2003, 06:35 PM
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#303
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History Channel...A&E...hmmm, are these television things?...can you get them on a DVD that I can put into my computer? Or a transcript of the interview by email?
Sorry, but we don't have television, cable TV, satellite, VHS, microwave oven or even cell phone or cordless phone at our house. We do have radio (three stations--NPR, news and classical) and a computer with a telephone modem that plays DVD's and CD's, but that is about the extent of our home electronics. Keeps home life fairly quiet and simple.
(There is a VHS player at that dojo that I can use for martial arts tapes...)
We don't know what we're missing. We don't miss it.
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Little birdie chirps
On my shoulder while I type:
"Where is my dinner?"
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11-24-2003, 08:58 PM
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#304
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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I just mention these programs in passing because a few people are interested to see them but they are not really important or very informative - and geared for the more uninformed general public. You won't be missing anything. . . . . thanks.
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11-25-2003, 01:39 AM
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#305
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Just want to say, "Happy Thanksgiving" to everyone and all my friends here in cyberspace. Thanksgiving used to be my favorite holiday because it was when my mother would always cooked up a storm with roast turkey and all of the trimmings. Since she passed away, all that is gone and nowadays I only spend a quiet, early brunch with one or two of my uchi-deshi before they take off to their own family and friends. Enjoy it now while you can have your family all around you and make of the most of it, by all means! Best wishes!
Only one Mom,
Only one Dad,
Only one Life,
Only one moment,
Too precious to waste!
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11-25-2003, 09:20 AM
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#306
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Dojo: Shobu Aikido Cape Cod
Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Join Date: Nov 2003
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For all we have
For each new day
For all our friends
We meet on the Way
For happiness and health
For the family we love
For a moment of peace
We thank Gd above
Happy Thanksgiving to all..............
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11-25-2003, 12:49 PM
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#307
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Soaring in stillness
Wings fold, brown pelican dives:
Irimi fishing.
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11-25-2003, 03:14 PM
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#308
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Just to be tough,
Is not enough.
Just to be weak,
Is not what you seek,
Just have a good day,
Just enter the Way.
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11-25-2003, 04:50 PM
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#309
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Dojo: 合気研究会
Location: Jakarta Selatan
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Once there was a saying
The pen is mightier than the sword
But now I know
The keyboard is mightier than both of them
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11-25-2003, 06:40 PM
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#310
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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MIghtier than the pen?
Mightier than the sword?
This mighty keyboard?
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11-25-2003, 09:45 PM
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#311
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How mighty is this keyboard?
A few weeks of typing about aikido
fans my love of the art of peace,
my first love of martial arts.
Again I try to find a dojo near home
(commuting is a barrier for me).
Google, the modern Delphi, gives me a clue.
An email of inquiry (an act of faith?)
and I find a small,
new (7 months), Aikikai club
just down the street from my home,
training at an elementary school
in the dark, quiet hills.
Tomorrow night we will visit.
How mighty is this keyboard?
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11-26-2003, 12:39 AM
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#312
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Hello, Furuya Sensei,
Happy holidays. Hope you are well and in good spirits. I just thought I would send you this little poem since your message the other day inspired it.
"Enlightenment"
Who knows which way the path will go?
What determines how the vine will grow?
Just follow your heart where your mind won't go.
No such thing as foe or friend,
No spirit to break no will to bend
Just stay the path from beginning to end,
Oh look! The apple is just an apple again!
Hope you enjoyed it. Happy Thanksgiving.
Jason (Perma)
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11-26-2003, 10:31 PM
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#313
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Weak or strong is all the same,
Tall or short is all the same,
Old or strong is all the same,
It only a problem when we give it a name!
Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday!
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11-26-2003, 11:05 PM
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#314
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Pigeons dance on eaves,
Tonight my wife danced ikkyo
With me for first time.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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11-27-2003, 07:41 AM
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#315
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Dojo: 合気研究会
Location: Jakarta Selatan
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Broken mind
Everything skips
Like a dream
of endless sleep
Last edited by Thalib : 11-27-2003 at 07:43 AM.
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11-27-2003, 07:50 AM
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#316
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Let it flow and let it be,
And discover the very real me.
This is the Path to be free.
Just let it go and you will see!
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11-27-2003, 09:13 PM
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#317
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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To bow one's head,
Fills some with dread,
No need to be afraid,
It is nothing to degrade,
It is only to be polite,
So no need to take flight.
Just bring your head low,
And in your heart know,
That everything is good,
Just as everything should,
So when you bow,
Just be in the now,
And give a nice smile,
That will go a long mile,
So don't worry alot,
It is what it is not!
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11-28-2003, 01:58 AM
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#318
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Dojo: 合気研究会
Location: Jakarta Selatan
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Fear of losing balance
The mind is trapped in one place
The mind should be set free
Another new beginning
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11-28-2003, 08:51 AM
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
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This is a very nice poem. It reminds me of a story about Bodhidharma, the patriarch of Zen Buddhism. The 27th patriarch travelled to China in 520ad and became its 1st patriarch of Zen Buddhism. It is said that he sat in meditation for nine years facing a wall. One student came to him but was repeatedly refused instruction. Finally, in desperation and as a show of his sincerity, he cut off his left hand and offered it to the monk.
Bodhidharma (Daruma) asked, "What are you seeking?
"My mind is in turmoil," said the monk.
"Bring it to me and I was pacify it."
"When I search for it, I cannot find it," replied the monk.
"There! It is pacified!" replied Bodhidharma.
This is a well known story in Zen and is what started the Zen tradition in China which eventually came to Japan. Best wishes!
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11-28-2003, 10:51 AM
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#320
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After more practice,
Apple just apple, and me?
Also not special.
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11-28-2003, 05:43 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
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The toy Daruma,
No fear of losing balance,
"Nana-korobi, ya-oki."
Note: "Nana-korobi, ya-oki" is a popular Japanese saying associated with Daruma. It means, "falling seven times, but getting back up on the eighth." Even though we may fail numerous times, like the toy Daruma, we keep bouncing back up.
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11-28-2003, 09:22 PM
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#322
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The toy Daruma,
was it there with the Fathers
in Egypt's desert?
"A brother asked Abba Sisoes, 'What shall I do, abba, for I have fallen?' The old man said to him, 'Get up again.' The brother said, 'I have got up again, but I have fallen again.' The old man said, 'Get up again and again.' So then the brother said, 'How many times?' The old man said, 'Until you are taken up either in virtue or in sin. For a man presents himself to judgement in the state in which he is found.'"
Abba Sisoes lived in the Egyptian desert south of Alexandria during the late 4th century.
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11-29-2003, 12:50 AM
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#323
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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So many paths it seems,
But there is only one.
So many questions it seems,
But one word answers all.
Take one step,
And one thousand miles are covered.
Where are you going?
One thought,
And we are already home.
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11-29-2003, 08:26 AM
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#324
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Dojo: Aikido of Petaluma, Petaluma,CA
Join Date: Jan 2003
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preparing this morning
to go
once again into
battle
clowns shall assault me
jesters will taunt me
lovers laughing in the face
of my lonliness
tides of strangers
demanding of my blood
and time
how shall i survive
this war i chose to
enter with
myself?
entering
and yielding
and tenkan dancing
through my day.
...............
...in honor of opening day at the San Francisco Dickens Fair, where i am exhibiting and performing for the next month-Bay Area folks, please come by!( just opening day jitters here!)
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11-29-2003, 09:22 AM
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#325
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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The greatest battle is within the heart,
From this fight, we can never depart.
They ridicule, laugh and and make it hell,
I know this path, I travelled well.
Let them scorn and let them laugh,
You play nice in their behalf,
And if they have no word of thanks,
Blast them all with army tanks!
Just kidding! Good luck on your performance today! My Best,
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