The river flows naturally, blending with the landscape before it,
changing its shape while maintaining its form.
The large boulder, solid and impenetrable,
does not succeed in stopping the river.
The body of water does not cling to the rock, grab it or hold it.
Perhaps it just pushes just slightly into the boulder as the river simply passes by.
In fact the boulder is slowly eroded by the water on it’s way to the ocean.
Ultimately it is not the land that shapes the water but the water that shapes the land.We endeavour in Aikido to emulate this quality in our mind, body and spirit.
Allow oneself to be the river.
My personal hope is that through manifesting Aikido in my life
I can slowly erode the hardness, the anger and the clinging despair of the boulders in my life
and the boulder I know that I can be.
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Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water.
But for attacking the hard and strong, there is nothing like it!
For nothing can take its place.
That the weak overcomes the strong, and the soft overcomes the hard,
This is something known by all, but practiced by none. ~ Lao Tzu.
I guess Aikido Masters get closer than most! Thanks, Marc.
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Thanks for sharing that quote Janice, I really like that one reminds me of Bruce Lee’s
Be water my friend.
Thank you. Still flowing. Thank you for your support through my laptop and AOL crash. The effects are still hitting me daily but the less I resist, the more I’m just flowing on, doing what I’m meant to be doing.
Now look what you’ve gone and made me think of…
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself. ~ From The Matrix
So, have we watched way too many films?
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