{"id":1132,"date":"2022-08-04T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2022-08-27T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T23:57:09","slug":"some-more-thoughts-on-aikido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2022\/08\/04\/some-more-thoughts-on-aikido\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More Thoughts on Aikido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Though aikido is enmeshed a densely literate web &#8212; one has only to think of the tanka and other writings, not to mention the calligraphy of the Founder O Sensei himself &#8212; its primary mode of learning is physical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">t you are looking for an advance rational explanation, you are wasting your time. This is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">because aikido aims at inscribing its logic into your own bodies, where it will lodge until you transpire, or at least as long as your body responds to your mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That is the dilemma I in particular face returning to aikido in my late seventies. My thought moves faster than my body, though It too is destined to decay. Already is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There is admittedly something here of the zen master&#8217;s twacking with a stick the novice \u00a0monk who is meditating rationally about the meaning of a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>koan.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But aikido is not zen, zen is not aikido.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though aikido is enmeshed a densely literate web &#8212; one has only to think of the tanka and other writings, not to mention the calligraphy of the Founder O Sensei himself &#8212; its primary mode of learning is physical. It you are looking for an advance rational explanation, you are wasting your time. This is\u00a0because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2022\/08\/04\/some-more-thoughts-on-aikido\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some More Thoughts on Aikido&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-aikido"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}