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

Takemusu Aiki are lectures O-Sensei giving to Goi-Senseis deciples.

The translation of Aikido “The Way of oneness and love and ki” is yoga.
Aikido is much closer to yoga than to martial arts like judo or karate.
Because there is no winning in Aikido

The purpose of the techniques is to connect to God or the Divine. Aikido protects the way of buddha and the way of Gods (Shinto).

Bujutsu, Budo, Shin-no-Budo (true Budo)

“I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore. I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also want this to stop. Disbelief and horror is what I feel. Disappointment. I am disappointed that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it. This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world. This is not at all what the people here asked for when they came into this world. This is not the world you and Dad wanted me to come into when you decided to have me. This is not what I meant when I looked at Capital Lake and said: “This is the wide world and I’m coming to it.” I did not mean that I was coming into a world where I could live a comfortable life and possibly, with no effort at all, exist in complete unawareness of my participation in genocide. More big explosions somewhere in the distance outside. When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel that into more work. Coming here is one of the better things I’ve ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible.”
http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/rachel/

Kabir

This poem by Kabir is a way of expressing the nothingness of Aikido….. Peter

“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.”

This two quotes from Simone Weil that express perfectly, though somewhat tragically, the meaning of Aiki…. Peter