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11-24-2003, 05:47 PM
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#101
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
Join Date: Apr 2002
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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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11-25-2003, 07:01 AM
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#102
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Dojo: Ki no Kenyukai/Jakarta
Location: Indonesia
Join Date: Sep 2001
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black coulds gather
cold water pours furiously
mind freezing
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Imho Viggo Mortensen should've played Last Samurai!
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11-25-2003, 06:04 PM
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#103
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Dojo: AikidoKIDS! & Katsujinken Dojo, Prescott Arizona
Location: Arizona
Join Date: May 2002
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This cat knows secrets,
sitting quietly all day
doing not-doing
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Quietly, red leaves
drift into tempting piles
scrunch! crunch! scuffling shoes
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There is more to balance than not falling over.
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11-25-2003, 06:31 PM
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#104
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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The sleeping cat,
Really sleeping?
Pounce!
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11-26-2003, 08:30 AM
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#105
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Dojo: Aikido of Petaluma, Petaluma,CA
Join Date: Jan 2003
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and as i read this
look outside the back window
cat springs from the weeds
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11-26-2003, 08:38 AM
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#106
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Hahah! My neighbor's cats are destroying my garden at the moment, sleeping on the plants. What to do!
One of the great classics on swordsmanship, uses this idea of the "sleeping cat." Is the cat sleeping? Or, is the cat awake and ready to ponce? No one can tell! This is related to swordmanship in which the mind and body achieve a state where it is difficult to detect any movement or intention. . . . . We see this motif on early sword fittings of the pre-Edo Period, late Muromachi Period, so we know that this is a very popular idea among smaurai warriors early on. On one of the buildings, within the compound of Toshogu, the tomb of the 1st Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu, there is a famous carving of the sleeping cat, said to be carved by Hidari Jingoro.
At the moment, however, I just wish they wouldn't play in my garden! Hehehe!
Happy Thanksgiving
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12-02-2003, 11:09 PM
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#107
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Real Samurai,
No longer here day,
Just the shadow of my sword.
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12-02-2003, 11:59 PM
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#108
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Dojo: 合気研究会
Location: Jakarta Selatan
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Real Samurai
Maybe it is only myth
But the heart is true
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12-03-2003, 08:48 AM
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#109
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Real Samurai,
Surely not a myth,
A true heart lost!
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12-03-2003, 09:33 AM
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#110
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Dojo: 合気研究会
Location: Jakarta Selatan
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Once was a true heart
Only sleeping never lost
Need to awake it
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12-03-2003, 10:10 AM
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#111
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Drawing this fine, old blade,
It shines so bright,
The true warrior spirit!
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12-04-2003, 06:35 AM
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#112
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Ah-choo!
Not Aikido or Ki,
Just a cold!
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12-04-2003, 08:32 AM
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#113
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Dojo: Aikido of Petaluma, Petaluma,CA
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Zen master Ah-choo
valuable to stay in bed
sometimes all day long....
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have some chicken soup
drink lots of tea and water
you will get well soon
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12-04-2003, 08:42 AM
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#114
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Chicken soup at Canter's
Cures all colds,
Mmmmmmm!
Many thanks!
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12-04-2003, 11:51 AM
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#115
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Dojo: Airenjuku Brighton
Location: On the road - UK
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Real Samurai?
Perhaps Tom Cruise's wisdom
Will enlighten us?
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12-04-2003, 05:56 PM
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#116
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Top Gun!
Please don't cut yourself,
It's sharp!
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12-05-2003, 06:48 AM
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#117
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Nasty cold!
No practice for now,
Just cough and sneeze!
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12-05-2003, 07:30 AM
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#118
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Big box of Kleenex
Zen master tweaks his own nose -
Take care and get well...!
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12-05-2003, 09:10 AM
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#119
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Ah-choo!
The gentle breeze thru the pine -
Not!
Race horses win by a nose,
Aikido teachers are felled by one!
Hahahahah!
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12-05-2003, 10:53 PM
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#120
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Dojo: Ki no Kenyukai/Jakarta
Location: Indonesia
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Sroooot! Sniff! Chooo!
Virtual student from far away land.
Here to accompany your misery.
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much ki flying down
from all that sunshine in LA
get well soon sensei!
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Imho Viggo Mortensen should've played Last Samurai!
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12-06-2003, 12:05 AM
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#121
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Many thanks!
A-choo,
Humans being are not so superior as we think!
A-choo again!
Best wishes, and please don't catch a cold, everyone!
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12-06-2003, 04:41 AM
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#122
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Dojo: Aikidog Aikikai
Location: Massachusetts
Join Date: Jun 2003
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First season's snowfall,
Blanketing the darkened streets,
Please don't cancel class!
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12-06-2003, 05:31 AM
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#123
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Sensei is down,
But never the dojo!
Sniffle, achoo!
I have many good assistants here who do a better job than me! Many thanks!
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12-07-2003, 02:13 AM
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#124
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Dojo: Yongsan Aikikai
Location: Seoul, S. Korea
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hard-way learning softens
battered ego's brittle fall
maybe uke knows
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12-07-2003, 06:48 AM
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#125
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Ego!
With or without it,
I am still me.
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