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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 →
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? [9.9.08]
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: Just thinking about the election makes me uneasy and actually a little queasy. The past two times I … more →
Spirituality
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: Recently I’ve had two people interested in aikido ask me about aikido and its “spiritual … 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 →
Commonalities and Differences
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: From “agasan’s” blog: On June 1, there was a seminar I attended that was hosted by … more →
Training (and the person you are) away from the dojo
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I am reposting something that had possibly originally piqued my interest because it was about true s … more →
Choice
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: Is choice something that a person gains very simply and suddenly? When a person is told, “You … more →
How to teach
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: From agasan’s blog | and gnarly Google translated page here: (my highlights in bold) When my t … 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 →
Stigma ("Manipulative-ness", "Resistance", "Connection")
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: Communication in general involves a lot of interpretation and presumptions, probably more so than we … more →
Perfection - When the middle way can't be
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been playing with a question that started forming when I left Seattle a few days ago. It … more →
advanced theory/practical vs basics theory
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I had a conversation recently with sensei in which he said clearly that what he did normally in his … more →
Aikido Metaphor, Language, DBT
da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: I haven’t had any conscious, pseudo-literal applications of aikido principles for a long time … 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 →
Is it the skill or the person? + Developing One's Eye
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da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: a person can do all of these things but still be missing something. As I accumulate experience/just … more →
Productive Keiko
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da2elni4na wrote 1 year ago: From a post on Aikiweb on Paul Kang sensei’s passing:In a class devoted to ukemi, while workin … 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 →
