The Sword and The Way

Dari sekian banyak tulisan dan blog mengenai pedang dan latihan serta filosofinya, saya menemukan tulisan dalam blog “The Path” termasuk yang menarik perhatian saya.

Berikut petikan dan terjemahan bebas dari blog tersebut:

“Dari sekian banyak deskripsi mengenai bagaimana memegang pedang, satu yang popular adalah:

Holding the sword is like holding a bird

Hold it too tightly, the bird will not be able to breathe and die

Hold it too lightly, the bird will move around and away it will fly

Aikido Talks

The following quotations have been compiled from O-Sensei’s collected talks, poems, and calligraphy, and from oral tradition, just several of them.

The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter