Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Meaning of Budo

“The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles.

The supreme excellence is to subdue your enemies without fighting them.”
Sun-Tzu

Friday, December 16, 2011

Video: Rinjiro Shirata — “A Catalog of Prewar Aiki Budo Techniques”

blog.aikidojournal.com
In this video, you will discover many Aiki Budo techniques you have never seen before. As with the Kanemoto Sunadomari book we released a few days ago, the techniques covered are closer to Morihei Ueshiba “Aiki Budo” film than to modern aikido.


http://blog.aikidojournal.com/2011/12/15/video-rinjiro-shirata-a-catalog-of-prewar-aiki-budo-techniques/

Thanks to Aikido Journal for posting this.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Question From a Zen Master

"Throughout the universe, one thing, and one thing only 
is manifesting; what are you if not that?"
(Yasutani Hakuun Roshi, Zen-master)

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Purpose of Aikido

With Aikido, 
we learn to sweep away evil with our breath 
instead of a sword; 
as human beings we find our true purpose, 
our true activity on this earth; and 
                          we open our hearts to the spirit 
                       of loving protection of all things.

Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido