Aikido lecture by Peter Shapiro Sensei, ki-no-nagare aikido dojo, Bern Switzerland, www.kinonagare.com
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This video includes:
Quotations from O-Sensei
Spiritual aspects of Aikido
Bigness vs. smallness
"Aikido is big, Aikido is big" (O-Sensei)
Aikido is not to become better then someone else.
purification (misogi)
"If you really understand Aikido you don't have to draw your sword"
The story of the samurai's cat
Zen-story
"Aikido is shin-no-budo" (O-Sensei)
"Without bu a nation will die" (O-Sensei)
comprehensivity vs. specialisation
Aikido to me as an art or way that exists in the realm of possibility. It creates, generates, allows for that something bigger to exist. What we inherit is the world of identity. The world of identity is about overcoming, it is about someday, it is about dominating etc. The world of possibility is about being. It is a now phenomenon. In the world of possibility, anything that is possible is available in that world. Much of what the purifying is about happens in being complete. Never becoming.
standinginnothing 10 months ago