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		<title>Shu-Ha-Ri, and Imitation and Confidence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the process of learning in budo, we learn by forms. This entails imitating the &#8220;signposts&#8221; created by those who came before us. Another way to consider forms is as the language, the letters, words, and grammar, that ultimately open the door for the practitioner to see the world the way the predecessors did, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=615&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obedience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought that the post below was good even apart from the original context of the discussion thread.


Patrick Augé writes: Jul 24th, 2009 at 1:18 am
A teacher is a student who teaches in order to continue his study. (Mochizuki Minoru Sensei)
The question is: is our teacher here for us or is he here for himself?
How [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=532&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on theoretical teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naomi Klein 7:43 &#8211; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO4aH5ZSb_o
When people fall in love with what seems to be a perfect theory, a set of rules, and they love those rules more than they love people or places. In fact they start to see the messy reality of life as interfering with the beauty, the imagined beauty, that exists only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=562&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remedying disharmony</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://agasan.no-blog.jp/hitorigoto/2009/08/post_0daf.html
108 »Remedying disharmony
Aikido practice takes place according to an agreement. When your right foot is supposed to go forward, you move it forward; when your left foot is supposed to go back, you move it back &#8211; the broad movements are managed in this way. It is not as strict as traditional martial arts, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=584&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good artists copy&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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I came across this video on Boing Boing. It resonated pretty strongly with the budo idea of stealing from your teachers in order to learn. I believe it&#8217;s also closely related to the idea of practicing repetitions of forms in a way that is &#8220;alive&#8221;. On top of all that, at the end the guy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=565&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To know the originators of a theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second part that I&#8217;ve put in bold, below, resonated with my thinking around theoretical vs. practical learning, specifically the idea of striving to know the thinking of the originators of a theory. It easily relates, also, to the ideas of aspiration, relationship, and communication.
http://www.aikidojournal.com/article?articleID=662
I am mystified and challenged by O-Sensei, a man who went [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=555&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machines / Being mechanical</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another nice find from that site.  Likely with strong influence from Endo sensei talking about the danger of becoming mechanical, I myself see how people show a tendency to become so, such as desiring to be told, desiring a formula or system by which they can act, desiring simplicity and ease, desiring power so that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=549&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mentors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked this comment (in bold) about mentors from this article I found:
http://moongadget.com/origins/dune.html
Zen Buddhism: Herbert sprinkled Zen ideas throughout Dune. When The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam nonsequiters Paul with &#8220;Ever sift sand through a screen?&#8221; Herbert next writes, &#8220;The tangential slash of her question shocked his mind into higher awareness.&#8221; This is the technique [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=547&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theoretical Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a reworked but messier draft&#8230;
Theory can give a thing a semblance of order and structure. It simplifies. The pieces in the theory can then be more thoroughly identified and become bite-sized and comprehensible. The pieces make sense relative to each other i.e. they&#8217;re internally coherent. The organization and the simplicity enable the student [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=312&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The energy of the heart/mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8216;agasan&#8217;s&#8217; blog. Emphasis in color is mine &#8211; what resonated most to me.
The energy of the heart/mind
The other day, our prefecture&#8217;s aikido federation, along with the Aikikai, Nippon Budokan, and other budo groups, held the &#8220;Regional Community Budo (Aikido) Instructors Seminar&#8221;. The seminar consisted of classes oriented toward instructors and intermediate or higher level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=da2el.wordpress.com&blog=477831&post=518&subd=da2el&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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