A definition of the Aikido spirit by the great scientist-mathematician-artist-humanist R. Buckminster Fuller

re: TAKE-MUSU-AIKI

…an ever-healthier, ever-less environmentally-restrained, ever-better-informed and -comprehensiely-educated, ever-more-thoughtfully, -spontaneously, and-cooperatively-productive total humanity operating as an ever-more-mutually-intertrusting and-interconsiderate world family, living in an ever-more-generous and less wasteful way, at an ever-more-foresighted and comprehensively-anticipatory level; engaged in ever-more-constructive-initiative-taking and cooperative intersupport of one another’s initiatives and explorations; an ever-more-truly omni-loving, classless, raceless, human family of Earth’s planetarians— all engaged in successful support of the hundred per cent integrity of eternally regenerative Universe…R.B.Fuller, from Critical Path; World Game.

re: TEN-MEI

A. [I found that] the larger the number of humans I undertook to serve, the more effective I became, wherefore I concluded that if I committed myself to serve everyone, I would be optimally effective:

B. I find the foregoing to  be sociologically akin to the hard-science fact that astronomy and astrophysics—dealing in total-known-Universe—enjoy humanity’s fastest-ahead-in-time, reliable prognosticating record by a reliably proven prognosticated-events-margin of hundreds of years.

C. There seem o be a scientific generalization at work here that relates intimately to the phenomena synergy—behavior of whole system unpredicted by the behavior or integral characteristics of any part of the system when the parts are considered only separately/:  What is inferred here is that a competitive employment of the whole family of generalized principles employed to serve the successful human functioning in Universe renders one maximally effective.
All scientific generalizations are synergetic—that is, they describe scientifically discovered interrelationships of system parts that vary in respect to one another at only mathematically describable different rates of change, which interrelationships are in no way suggested by separate inspection of any one part of the system.

The generalization discovered to be commonly operative in the forgoing paragraphs A, B, and C, says,  “To be optimally effective, undertake at outset the most comprehensive task in the most comprehensive and incisively detailed manner.

In undertaking our critical-path development of a practically realizable means of bringing about all humanity’s spontaneously realizable escape from fearfully ignorant self-destruction—and entrance into a…sustainable..high standard of living for all,…we are being taught by the foregoing paragraphs A,B,C,D, to immediately “undertake the greatest task with thorough commitment of attention- [shin-ken-shobu]…”

We are being taught by all the foregoing to assume as closely as possible the viewpoint, the patience, and the competence of God. [shin-no-budo]….R.B. Fuller