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11-20-2010, 06:48 PM
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Dojo: golden center aikido-highgate
Location: london
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Aikido Rule Number One
You are tha spirit.
You have a mind and you have a body.
They are not you.
Realize this and you will be ready to start Aikido.
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11-20-2010, 06:51 PM
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Location: Left Coast
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
My mind & body are one, and aikido is one way I work on actually realizing/living this. Clearly, YMMV.....
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Janet Rosen
http://www.zanshinart.com
"peace will enter when hate is gone"--percy mayfield
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11-21-2010, 06:20 AM
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Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Why this constant need of aikidoka to come up with absolute labels, definitive categories and sets of rules?
The Great Way is not difficult:
Just don't pick and choose.
Cut off all likes or dislikes
And it is clear like space.
- Hsin Shin Ming of Tseng Ts'an
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11-21-2010, 06:52 AM
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Dojo: Central Aikido
Location: Warrensburg, MO
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
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Mary Malmros wrote:
Why this constant need of aikidoka to come up with absolute labels, definitive categories and sets of rules?
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Something to do to pass the time while off the mat.
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11-21-2010, 06:56 AM
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Dojo: Wherever I happen to be
Location: Zaragoza
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
What's left from that "I'm the Universe"?
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11-21-2010, 09:01 AM
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Dojo: AIA, Los Angeles, CA
Location: California
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Hmmm, looking in the mirror this morning the only thought I had was "I am the walrus..." Gotta work on my diet...
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11-21-2010, 09:16 AM
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Dojo: Dartington
Location: Devon
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
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Keith Larman wrote:
Hmmm, looking in the mirror this morning the only thought I had was "I am the walrus..." Gotta work on my diet...
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Could've been worse Keith, you could have been the eggman!
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Success is having what you want. Happiness is wanting what you have.
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11-21-2010, 09:18 AM
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Location: Santa Fe New Mexico
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
I think conceptual/philosophical constructs and aikido practice have little in common, or about as much as thinking about music theory will help you master the guitar (which I don't play).
So it's incongruous to me to hear that I can only be ready to start the study of aikido if I think about my relationship to...whatever in a particular way.
Proof's in the pudding, or it isn't, in my view.
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David Henderson
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11-21-2010, 09:34 AM
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Dojo: Dartington
Location: Devon
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Quote:
Charles David Henderson wrote:
I think conceptual/philosophical constructs and aikido practice have little in common, or about as much as thinking about music theory will help you master the guitar (which I don't play).
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pretty much agree with you. You are ready to play the guitar (which I do), when you are ready to pick one up and practice for endless hours. You only master the guitar when you no longer have to think about what you are doing (which I can't).
I think Aikido is pretty much the same.
regards
Mark
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Success is having what you want. Happiness is wanting what you have.
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11-21-2010, 12:07 PM
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Quote:
Mark Freeman wrote:
pretty much agree with you. You are ready to play the guitar (which I do), when you are ready to pick one up and practice for endless hours. You only master the guitar when you no longer have to think about what you are doing (which I can't).
I think Aikido is pretty much the same.
regards
Mark
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Yes!!!
You only master (insert skill, language, anything) when you no longer have to think about what you are doing. One might say "when it is part of you"...
Cheers,
Walter
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11-21-2010, 12:32 PM
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Quote:
Charles David Henderson wrote:
Proof's in the pudding, ....
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Pudding, did someone say pudding?
I like pudding.
I have mastery of pudding.
I am one with the pudding.
I am pudding.
David
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11-21-2010, 07:17 PM
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Dojo: Sukagawa Aikido Club of Montreal
Location: Montreal
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Your doing it wrong.
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11-21-2010, 09:32 PM
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
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MM
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11-22-2010, 09:17 AM
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Location: Santa Fe New Mexico
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Best answer yet.
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David Henderson
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11-22-2010, 01:15 PM
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Dojo: Renshinkan
Location: Tempe, AZ
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
I thought aikido rule number one was "don't talk about aikido."
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11-22-2010, 01:46 PM
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Quote:
Carl Bilodeau wrote:
I thought aikido rule number one was "don't talk about aikido."
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Then I bet I can guess the 2nd...
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MM
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11-22-2010, 02:30 PM
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Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
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Maggie Schill wrote:
Then I bet I can guess the 2nd...
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"shut up and train"
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11-22-2010, 02:55 PM
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Dojo: Aikido of Del Mar
Location: San Diego, CA
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Quote:
Mary Malmros wrote:
"shut up and train"
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I think that many times I click "reply" on this site... but not for this post
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01-10-2011, 07:55 PM
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
i find alot of the time that all these clever maxims and cornflake box quotes actually get in the way of training. just get in and train hard
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01-11-2011, 03:17 AM
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Location: Winchester
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Get off your ass.........
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01-11-2011, 04:11 AM
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Dojo: Ellis Schools of Traditional Aikido
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Quote:
Graham Christian wrote:
You are tha spirit.
You have a mind and you have a body.
They are not you.
Realize this and you will be ready to start Aikido.
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Rule number one and only
Get on the mat and train
Stop posting so much pony
A pony a day
keeps your students away.
You have a mind, you have a body
Its not you ??
Then it must be NODDY.
Henry Ellis
http://rik-ellis.blogspot.com/
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01-11-2011, 09:00 AM
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Location: Winchester
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
ha ha ha ha
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01-12-2011, 02:04 PM
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Dojo: Aikidoseura Asahi Lappeenranta Finland
Location: Imatra South Karelia
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
I find this little consept here to be really close to how i see my existance here..
I am not my body, not my name, not my ego...
Body is my temple, my home during this current lifetime, my mind is what makes my soul/spirit compatible with the body, but its not me.
I am the spirit, the soul. mind and body are extensions of my consciousness on my path here. Body does, mind guides body, soul guides mind(when i'm running the show, not my ego.) and the spirit is who i really am.
This is only how i percieve this, i like this philosophy...
And if i manage to make the body, mind and soul work as one, my Aikido works.
I think it's a western consept to see there's only body/mind/soul... I see it that there's spirit too. HIger self or I, it has many names.
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01-12-2011, 03:29 PM
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Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
I've never heard of "soul" and "spirit" being considered separate concepts in non-Western philosophies.
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01-12-2011, 03:47 PM
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Dojo: Sakumeikan N.E. Aikkai .Newcastle upon Tyne.
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Re: Aikido Rule Number One
Quote:
Henry Ellis wrote:
Rule number one and only
Get on the mat and train
Stop posting so much pony
A pony a day
keeps your students away.
You have a mind, you have a body
Its not you ??
Then it must be NODDY.
Henry Ellis
http://rik-ellis.blogspot.com/
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Henry,
You are on the way to being the Aikiiweb Poet Laureate.
Joe.
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