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12-05-2003, 06:52 AM
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#351
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Nasty cold!
Thrown down and pinned so hard,
By a cough and sneeze!
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12-05-2003, 09:25 AM
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#352
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When someone says to me,
"I want to learn self-defense,"
I always ask them,
"Did you get a flu shot?"
(Let's start with basics.)
Then on to advanced techniques:
"Do you go to bed at a reasonable time
and get enough rest?"
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12-05-2003, 11:20 AM
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#353
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Dojo: Aikido of Fresno
Location: Fresno, CA, USA
Join Date: Oct 2003
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martial arts from childhood on
karate
kenpo
and now aikido
a year ago a son was born
and now I'm best at tickle-fu (and gotch-u-do)
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12-05-2003, 11:31 AM
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#354
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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gotch-u-do or gotch-u-doo?
I hope this is not about cleaning poo!
Hahaha
Many congratulations on your baby!
One of my black belts just had his #7 last year. . . . . - a few more and it is almost a branch dojo! Just kidding. Best wishes!
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12-05-2003, 12:00 PM
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#355
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Dojo: Aikido of Fresno
Location: Fresno, CA, USA
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I've tried to pass that of to mommy - saying that her diaper-waza needs work... It didn't go over as I planned.
Children are a great source of inspiration..
...and prespiration...
...and sometimes deperation.
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12-05-2003, 12:11 PM
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#356
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Just as there is a lot to teach them, there is more to learn from them. Children absorb much more than adults. All my black belts are required to begin their teaching experiences in our Children's Class. . . . Children are easy to teach as long as you are completely honest and open. Of course, adults are easy to teach too, once you get passed all the crap! Oops! I am confused, are we talking about diapers again???? Haha!
Just teasing you, folks, no angry letters, please!
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12-05-2003, 04:21 PM
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#357
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Taking care of a nasty cold,
Hearing about a new-born child,
Ain't Life strange?
Ain't Life Wonderful!
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12-07-2003, 10:07 AM
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#358
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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A bow is not simply a bow,
It brings our spirit into the now.
Clearing the air like a cool spring breeze,
Like a pure mountain stream, our soul, it frees
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12-07-2003, 04:39 PM
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#359
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Here is a bow story,
of 800 miles in California,
three steps and a bow.
Rev. Hung Sure is in my neighborhood.
http://www.charityfocus.org/insp/people/hs/
Just bow.
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12-08-2003, 07:01 AM
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#360
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Dear Furuya Sensei,
I hope you are getting plenty of peacful rest and your health is being restored. I also hope that the bowing discussion does not make you sneeze (or weep)!
I have noticed over the last 30-some years that many people would like to pull aikido out of its Japanese cultural and spiritual roots. Of course, a plant can be carefully uprooted and transplanted, growing deep roots in a new place. The risk, however, is that if the gardener does not provide a deep and rich environment, the transplant will wither and die. (Is it the plant's fault that it "doesn't work"?)
In life, we may be involved with various "transplantings": children often transplant themselves into environments different from their parents', and marriage is also often a transplanting experience. Religions, in order to spread to new places, must also be transplanted. Also, the Japanese martial arts are increasingly stripped of their Japanese and broader Asian cultural and spiritual roots. Sometimes they are planted again in deep soil in another cultural setting. Sometimes not.
This is starting to sound like the parable of the sower in the Gospels. Without these roots, we can easily be crushed by whatever passes by in our daily life, or we wither under a harsh environment, or we are choked by internal anxieties and concerns. The crucial factor is the heart, the attitude.
Peace to you, and I you are getting over your cold.
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12-08-2003, 08:56 AM
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#361
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Dojo: Aikido Center of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles
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Do you think the leaf at the top of the tree is different from its roots deep in the ground?
A rose by any other name is still a rose. Please do not be confused by appearances. Please practice what you preach - "heart."
Spring breeze,
Eternally old, yet so fresh,
When will you ever return again?
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12-08-2003, 10:21 AM
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#362
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Dojo: none
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Paper gardenias
please the eye but not the nose.
No root, no heart here.
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02-24-2004, 08:07 AM
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#363
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Dojo: 合気研究会
Location: Jakarta Selatan
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Stand Alone Complex
In a world of interconnectivity
One lives in the dense forest of uniformity
Protected by the shades of the trees
Yet, suffocating in their denseness
Need to breathe, need the protection
Addicted to the group but crave individuality
Such is the stand alone complex
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07-28-2004, 10:53 PM
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#364
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: A Silly Poem
A blank map in hand
So easy to find things with
Places untraveled
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08-18-2004, 07:12 AM
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#365
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Dojo: Suomen Ki-Aikido Yhdistys, Helsinki
Location: Espoo, Finland
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Re: A Silly Poem
Sunshine, sleet
rain and clouds
Could I fit
them in my hands?
Maybe they are not enough
maybe there's another way
but it is sometimes very tough
to keep on happy every day
It is within you
the inner light
that through all plight
will make you do
Alone you are
And you are not
Feel free in both
Sorry if this is too cheesy, my native language is Spanish and I can produce much better stuff than that using it.
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08-19-2004, 05:38 AM
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#366
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: A Silly Poem
City of Gardens
I have roamed them in the past
A beautiful site
My last day's Today
Now I may see them again
In memories end
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08-26-2004, 09:15 PM
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#367
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Dojo: Lenwakan
Location: São Paulo
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: A Silly Poem
Quote:
Drew Ames wrote:
The poem reminded me of Bilbo Baggins taunting the spiders in The Hobbit.
Regards,
-Drew
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Too true!! LOL! I'd forgotten about that... Only remembered now, when I read your post... LOL
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08-27-2004, 08:13 AM
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#368
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Dojo: Lenwakan
Location: São Paulo
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Re: A Silly Poem
Quote:
Kensho Furuya wrote:
It can only be seen,
Running to and fro
But in stillness. . . .
Where did the wind go?
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Kensho - san.. Where do you get such pretty ideas for your writing? I mean... Where do you go for insperation?????
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09-05-2004, 04:45 AM
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#369
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Re: A Silly Poem
With Heaven in my hand I go to and from
Not knowing what I may become
Destiny reveals all things in time
The future holds what fate is mine.
For these things I am not concerened
through the way the soul's returned.
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09-06-2004, 07:19 PM
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#370
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: A Silly Poem
Here's a random poem I read in a book once....not very nice though
Rawhead close behind you treads
3 looks back and youll be dead
But Close your eyes and count to 10
And Rawhead will be gone again.
really Random dont ya think....another one from the same book...
All these years I've built up a wall
Now its crumbling, Soon it will fall.
It geta harder and harder to keep a straight face
Its Harder and harder to keep up the pace ....
lol he he he
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09-06-2004, 07:22 PM
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#371
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: A Silly Poem
Heres 1 my sister found...
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, i do not sleep.
I am the thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond that glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
i am the gentle autumns rain.
When you awaken in the mornings hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush.
Of quiet birds incircled flight,
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not stand at my Grave and cry,
I am not there...I did not die.
i luv this one!!!
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09-24-2004, 05:43 AM
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#372
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: A Silly Poem
Early on morning, late one night.
2 dead boys got up to fight,
back to back they face each other
drew there swords and shot one another.
The deaf police mean heard the noise,
Came and got those two dead boys.
If you dont believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man, he saw it too!!!
he he he
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12-14-2004, 11:29 PM
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#373
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Location: Tupelo, MS
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 180
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Re: A Silly Poem
I figured if it worked for O'Sensei it'd work for anything...
Bryce
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01-26-2008, 10:45 AM
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#374
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Dojo: 合気研究会
Location: Jakarta Selatan
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Re: A Silly Poem
I just found out today that Reverend Kensho Furuya passed away last year 06 March 2007...
... then I remember the poems that we used to trade back and forth in this thread...
... may you rest in peace, Sensei...
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