Showing posts with label the path of aikido. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the path of aikido. Show all posts

Sunday, August 23, 2009

The Noble Art of Service


If I want to ask for something. If I want to reach a goal I must learn to give. Only in this way I will recognize and be established within the evolutionary order which rewards our giving based in the noble art of service.
The whole universe obeys this principle,there will always be a perfect balance and the noble and just actions will never be forgotten. All those ones who can give, will receive in proportion to their intentions generosity and nobility.
The universe is loving of Love and this is the secretfor all spiritual achievement.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Art of Flowing


The Art of Flowing is the Art of Living. The river flows to the sea, the wind to the space, the thought to the day of tomorrow, the feeling to the loved one.
To flow is to be born and not to die, it is to be awaken in the eternal dawn.
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Mystic Healing Art

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

How to Fly if We don't have Wings


We often need to be free of prejudices in order to be able to see the reality, which is seen by going beyond our own limits. But how can we fly if we don't have wings. How to go into a deep sea or intense fire and come out unharmed?
Well, we have to free the mind, the imagination, fears, insecurity and the supposed monotony of a rigid established security.
Art teaches us, and occasionally in a very singular way, about breaking the limits. It will be like laughing and crying at the same time.
In order to be able to contemplate we have to look without pre-established patterns, parameters. And to look is only this: To look freely, to simply know what is in front of us and in this way we will also know even more, about our own beings.
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Author: Oscar Basurto Carbonell

Thursday, January 10, 2008

The Path of Ki. The Path of Glory. The Path of Aiki.


The path of equilibrium is the Path of Ki, the Path of Glory, the Path of Aiki, where man is the brother of the mountains, of the skies and absolutely one with eternity.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

The Art of Flowing


The inner art has to do with the flowing of Nature. And it is accomplished by adapting and uniting to her.

Monday, December 3, 2007

The Perfect Circle



The movement is complete only when it has the same flexibility than a perfect circle. Where there is no conflict neither in its beginning nor in its end.
There is no end. There is no beginning. It only flows.

Friday, November 9, 2007

The Path of Aikido


Several learned students asked their mentor: "Sir, can you please explain to us in an easy understandable way, neither too metaphysical nor spiritual because our minds do not have the necessary training but we have the interest and would like to really know what is Ki."

Because there is too much mystery involved and too many definitions that do not clearly define. It is true that this is a profound topic and besides we do not want to understand it one hundred percent but at least some light that can free us of the confusion."


They spoke in that way to their mentor, who replied: "The understanding of Ki comes of two forces that are in contradiction: Calm and Movement. Nevertheless, this contradiction is only apparent. Since a serene mind may have a strong, really powerful, agile and dynamic body. But this does not happen by chance but by having lived with order and the consequence of that order is balance and as such, the opposites have been able to balance. It is a natural fact that many variables exist in the thought of the reason and also in the expression of the body.

For a better understanding. When there is discipline and it is worthy and noble, the understanding of Ki appears but what first must be understood is that Ki is an ideal strength in the ideal human being. And this is the one who has respect for life and as a consequence, he has taken an step, he has looked up to heaven. And from that step, clear and clean water has sprang forth which is good to drink. And in that heaven, he has found contemplation, expansion and harmony. And it is there where Ki begins to manifest.

Man, then, has understood that between heaven and earth and earth and heaven, there is a primordial principle. And from there, he has begun to understand that there must be balance and equilibrium in life.The way to this equilibrium is the way of Ki, the way of glory, the path of Aikido, where man is brother of the mountains, companion of the skies and absolutely one with eternity.This may seem too physiological or contemplative but it begins by noticing your breath, calming your thoughts, but also by been vigilant and attentive with your inner calm.Ki is the equilibrium of everything in existence and it will become present in your heart and your life.

Then, what is Ki? Is it the result of good intention? No, is more than that. Ki appears when truth is expressed with strength, as action, as harmony. That is the reason that Ki is naturally present in the whole Nature, which has order and movement.

Notice, how the wind flows, feel it. How the bird flies in the wind and the space. How the bird comes back to its nest. How the large bird flies. Notice how the foam of the sea comes softly to the shore and although gigantic and explosive, the foam is delicate and abundant. Listen to the wind in the sea. Is it possible to separate them? Notice how the wood burns in the fire, notice how the fire becomes wood and how the wood becomes fire.

And by contemplating Nature in that way and by self contemplation, you will see that the universe is not separated but united like a little stone tied to a mountain, like a drop of water in the ocean.

Who are you, the drop or the ocean? Where are the limits? Where is the beginning? Where is the end? Now, take this to reflection, go through and cut these words with discernment.
Live the moment. Discover yourself. Discover the truth without veil.
Ki flows eternally, eternally flows."