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No te enseño a mover los pies

Durante una clase, un estudiante se acercó a Morihei Ueshiba para pedirle que repitiera el juego de pies de una técnica. Quería observar mejor el desplazamiento, los ángulos, los detalles del movimiento.

Pero O-Sensei no repitió la técnica. Lo miró con seriedad y le respondió con firmeza:
“No te enseño a mover los pies… ¡te estoy enseñando a mover la mente!”

El mensaje era claro: el verdadero aprendizaje en Aikido no se encuentra solo en la forma externa. El gesto técnico es solo la superficie. Lo que importa es el estado interior desde el cual se mueve el cuerpo.

Ueshiba no entrenaba para producir copias exactas de sus movimientos, sino para despertar en sus alumnos una comprensión más profunda: sensibilidad, intuición, claridad. Les enseñaba a ver más allá del paso y el gesto, y a entender la intención, el ritmo, la presencia.

En Aikido, la técnica es solo el vehículo. La mente es el motor.

Gabriel Benitez©

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In this clip, you will see the same technics of aikido in the 30's and 50/60's .aikidojo ajaccio iwama takemusu aikido

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Here's a short note about the phrase "Samuhara", which appears in the phrase “Ame-no-murakumo Kuki Samuhara Ryu-ō” ( 天の村雲九鬼さむはら竜王).

This phrase, which Morihei Ueshiba stated contains “all the techniques of Aikido”, appears at the top right of the calligraphy on the left by Morihei Ueshiba (which hung at the Waialae Dojo in Honolulu), and was mentioned in "Three Doka and the Aiki O-Kami":

https://www.aikidosangenkai.org/blog/three-doka-aiki-o-kami/

John Stevens translated this phrase as "cold plain", based upon a phonetic reading ("samui"/cold + "hara"/plain), but this was really just a guess.

The phrase itself is a Sanskrit-like four character talisman believed to have protective powers and was often carried by during the Russo-Japanese War, in which Morihei participated. An example of a protective coin from the Japanese Imperial Navy appears on the right.

Morihei Ueshiba himself described Samuhara as "a source of limitless energy".

He also often wrote "Samuhara", but read the characters as "Takemusu".

We have seen previously that Morihei Ueshiba defined "Takemusu" as the training of attractive force between opposing forces within oneself - Yin and Yang, In and Yo...Heaven and Earth - which is the most basic expression of opposing forces, gravity and the ground.

Heaven-Earth-Man was the basic, and primary model by which Morihei Ueshiba described his training methodology, as discussed in "Aikido and the Structure of the Universe":

https://www.aikidosangenkai.org/blog/aikido-structure-universe/

In the first section of Morihei Ueshiba's book "Takemusu Aiki" he actually defines Aikido this way:

合気道は天地人和合の道と理なり。

“Aikido is the Way and Principle of harmonizing Heaven, Earth and Man.”

Getting back to Samuhara, there is actually a shrine in Osaka called Samuhara Jinja:

https://samuhara.or.jp/

There it is explained that the term "Samuhara" stands for the three creator deities:

1) Amenominakanushi – the “Diety at the Absolute Center of Heaven” – whom Morihei Ueshiba said represents you, yourself.

2) Takamimusubi, representing “Yang” or “Heaven”.

3) Kamimusubi, representing “Yin” or “Earth”.

In other words, Heaven-Earth-Man...is Takemusu.

Joining (合) those opposing forces (氣) within oneself (man) is...Takemusu Aiki. Opposing forces joined within oneself being both a source of limitless energy and of limitless variation, as in the taiji injunction:

"Through change, ten thousand endings

But only through one theory

The union of opposites"

Further, Takamimusibi and Kamimusubi manifest in...dual opposing spirals - as in Morihei Ueshiba's statement:

"The mysteries of aiki are revealed as dual opposing spirals, one rising on the right, one sinking on the left. A friction is created in the middle. This gives rise to Yin and Yang. Once you move this way no one can stop you"

Some of this is also discussed in "Morihei Ueshiba and the Way of the Cross":

https://www.aikidosangenkai.org/blog/morihei-ueshiba-way-cross/