Bodywork wrote:Rich
Posture? Is for newbies. To still be thinking about posture even after a year is just sad.
Posture is to learn to feel where your musculature is holding tension.
Okay
Done
Next?
How does THAT create structure?
Why have structure?
What is structure?
What is a center?
How do you maintain that in any imaginable position? Horizontal, upside down, rolling like a snake?
Ueshiba went on an on about manipulating the two kis ... in you. Care to describe that? Is kindergarten, first day of practice stuff- according to your founder?
Thoughts?
I answered the question about the dance of the Gods.
Your turn to answer
Figure out the above and you will be on your way to actually doing the way of aiki.
Aiki-do
The way of aiki is the way of yin/ yang
Being one with the universe
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"I am aiki!" was not an arrogant trope. It was a provable declaration. I can have you touch almost any part of me while I am barely moving and you will feel aiki.
Why?
Aiki is in...me.
Every part of me.
I....am aiki as well. Its provable and testable. Anyone who truly understands Ueshiba, understands how to do this. And so far, 100% of your arts teachers have failed to show this when tested.
Why?
Modern aikido has no aiki and no understanding of what aiki ...is. More and more sensies now understand that too. And it stated with your founder shouting it in the dojo after he had retired.
Modern aikido teacher's just.. don't... Get it
No yin and yang....in you?
No aiki.
That is all.
Call it what ever you like. Make up names and practices. It will never be Ueshiba's "way of aiki."
posture and mental calmness whilst grown men try to beat you with hands, head, feet, elbows, knees, sticks, knifes, and the occasional axe...
( I hate the axe, top heavy )
There is no end to this practice. If one were practicing posture only then that would be a different thing.
Posture is not static, tied to the mind it undulates with micro tensions, ticks and tells. Where does the mind and posture separate, you cannot find this.
Posture is mind, mind is posture.
I see no end to this study.
In a flash we become heavy and unmovable then instantly so light we almost disappear..
....and then clunk, its gone, attachment and desire rush in, a slight angle, something flashes in the periphery, the jo tightens around the throat, how did that happen, laughter all round...
fail fast...learn quickly...
what is everyone else in the world studying, I have no idea....
what I practice is so dull and slow, its as if nothing is going on...
I know nothing of dancing Gods, and yin or yang...( this is Scotland pal...)
all I know is the space that opens, the absence of thought, body moves from where I do not know, I try to follow this unfolding, emerging intelligence, quieter the mind, the more freely this body flows. How is this even possible. Its a mystery to me.
Body quiet, mind quiet, grabs, sticks, punches and kicks, why is everyone moving so slowly, this is a child's game.. but wait there is pressure, increasing, tighter, damn that old man, he waits and waits and then wham...bokken cracks the back of your head.. laughter, never mind...the study deepens
no one stays for long around here, too boring, just the old timers..disintegrating into emptiness.....
Rich
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