4.30.08

"Day after day train your heart out, refining your technique: Use the One to strike the Many! That is the discipline of the Warrior." -O'Sensei

4.28.08

Thank you to Bill Gleason Sensei and Jay Weik Sensei for their insight and instruction and all the Okugyo participants for their sincerity and generosity throughout the past week's training.

Okugyo

There will be no club meeting this week. I will be participating in the Okugyo Aikido Intensive in Vermont. See you next wednesday.

Things seen and unseen

The way that can be followed is not the eternal way.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth
While naming is the origin of the myriad things.
Therefore, always desireless, you see the mystery
Ever desiring, you see the manifestations.
These two are the same--
When they appear they are named differently.
Their sameness is the mystery,
Mystery within mystery;

The door to all marvels.

-Lao Tzu

4.9.08

"Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as practice makes perfect."
-Periander

4.2.08

Completely relaxed, breathe in uke's attack and move through with complete freedom.

Wake Up

Evening Gatha
Let me respectfully remind you,
Life and death are of supreme importance.
Time passes by swiftly and opportunity is lost.
Each of us should strive to awaken.
Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

3.26.08

Bodhidharma

Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -ovid

Resistance

Through the practice of Aikido and understanding of it's principle, one learns to receive another's attack, putting an end to the action-reaction trap. Unlike action-reaction, receiving allows us to break the violence-begets-violence scenario that continues to devastate the world around us. Instead, the aggression is fully accepted to be released peacefully back to the universe.

3.19.08

True victory is victory of self; may this happen at the speed of light!

iroha poem

Although its scent still lingers on

the form of a flower has scattered away

For whom will the glory

of this world remain unchanged?

Arriving today at the yonder side

of the deep mountains of evanescent existence

We shall never allow ourselves to drift away

intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams.

3.12.08

tonight at keiko we were privileged to have jamie from burlington, vermont stop in to train with us. the group had a good practice working on some of Saotome Sensei's lessons from last weekend. it is always interesting to see how conflict breaks down to simply who controls the center.

Aiki Shrine

Here are some photos of a recent trip to the Aiki Shrine in Myakka City, Fl.

Aiki Shrine (pt. 2)