Blogs about: Aikido Tangent
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'What are we doing?'
My ‘thinking out loud’: Originally, “What is the point” – specifically, what are we in aikido doing if we stick with approaches that are different from traditional jujuts… more →
Dokodemo Diary
Theoretical Learning
da2elni4na wrote 4 months ago: Below is a reworked but messier draft… Theory can give a thing a semblance of order and struct … more →
Inspiration vs Mystification
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: In the end it is as simple as one moving you toward, and the other keeping you away from your goal. … more →
Common sense and reactivity
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: We seem to experience greater discomfort and agitation, or we are likelier to hit a “nerve … more →
Language/Communication
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da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I find myself often return to the analogy of language (or conversation, communication, etc.) when th … more →
Cheating
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da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I was watching a ted.com video of Michael Moschen, and at one point he was talking about finding bal … more →
Tradition, Ignorance, and (Inadvertent) Obfuscation
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: There has been some “pieces falling into place” in my brain recently, and I thought abou … more →
"Knowledge is Power"; "Power Corrupts"
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: This could be related to the idea/realization that a lot of the “aikido greats” uchidesh … more →
Manipulative Behavior (cont.)
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: The parallel between conversation and dance has been often used. There’s rhythm, spacing, and … more →
Know Thyself
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I read in an interview one shihan’s statement that kata (forms) were a way for a person to be … more →
Oppression - a reframe (2)
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: As I was reading my first “fly-by” of this topic I saw that what I wrote would give the … more →
Homeostasis (dammit!)
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: One night at an introductory lecture given by the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program.When the le … more →
合気道に向いている人 (people for whom aikido is a good match)
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: We may not notice, i.e., consciously experience, being influenced We may have some experience like, … more →
"Manipulative" - Defining - Idiosyncracy
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I recall, a while ago I was having some thoughts around how “sadism”, “oppression … more →
Rules
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: Mostly I’m not into rules, although O Sensei’s “Practice joyfully” comes to … more →
from Social Intelligence
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I’m jumping around, not reading this book in order. The following excerpt resonated with my ex … more →
"Kuroiwa School"
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: Kuroiwa sensei was not a so-called uchideshi. He commuted to the dojo from his house by train. At th … more →
Exchanges
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: A section of a post on “Agasan”’s blog, (but this time not about shihan). Because … more →
The Battle of Each Moment
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: We sometimes hear, “True victory is victory over the self,” that real or meaningful batt … more →
More on Atari (cont.)
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: Once we start to gain some certainty of what we’re looking for, we can “hang out where i … more →
