June AikiWeb Columns Now Available

Posted 2009-06-15 15:48:15 by Jun Akiyama
News URL: http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=75

We have five new AikiWeb columns for June available for your reading pleasure from Ross Robertson, "The Mirror," Stefan Stenudd, Lynn Seiser, and Peter Goldsbury available at http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=75.

As always, please be encouraged to leave your feedback for the authors, as they are always interested in hearing your thoughts and appreciate the discussions around their writings and really makes their day!

Enjoy!

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Hello Jun,

I am not sure about "really makes their day!".

A few years ago, the late Ubaldo Alcantara (remember him?) started a discussion about Internet discussion forums and he complained about the fact that discussions were too bland, too intellectually lightweight. I am not sure that this is true of Aikiweb.

Since the book(s) I am planning are serious scholarly works, I have to trust that Aikiweb readers will not mind, for example, struggling through the text of the Man'yoshu, to see how kotodama really started in Japan. Morihei Ueshiba was always thinking in a context and too many people take it for granted, in my opinion, that this context is transparent merely from the English translations of his works.

Best wishes,

PAG