Brisbane Ki Aikido

Happy Birthday Brenton & Chris

Thank you everyone for a great grading evening tonight.
Congratulations to Lisa and Rogier on Nidan!!

Now is the most important time. The world today is chaotic-you know this. But the age of the heart will come. O-Sensei emphasized that we must return to the heart. Firmly grasp O-Sensei's philosophy–the heart of Aikido–and integrate it into your technique, into your own body. Train hard and well, until, like O-Sensei, light shines out from your heart. Then what comes out of you naturally will be Aikido.

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Koichi Tohei Sensei - New Jersey 1965 This 8mm movie footage captured an informal demonstration by Koichi Tohei Sensei in New Jersey in 1965. It was originally provided by Terry Pierce Sensei, Ch...

Hilltop Hoods - The Nosebleed Section Hilltop Hoods - Nosebleed Section Awesome riding skills by Simon O Brian.Enjoy!

There is a story about a disciple who let it be known that he was meditating to polish his mind to absolute clarity, to remove every last trace of human weakness. When the master learned of it, he sought out this particular disciple, who was sitting piously in a place of prominence.
The master sat down next to him and asked what he was doing.
"I am polishing my mind to clarity."
The master thought for a moment, then picked up a brick and began rubbing it on the rock where the disciple was seated. Unable to resist his curiosity, the disciple asked the master what he was doing.
"I am polishing this brick to make it a mirror."
"You can't do that," said the disciple. "No amount of polishing will make that brick into a mirror."
Tossing the brick away, the master said, "And no amount of polishing will bring clarity to your mind."

There are said to be many methods of meditation, but really there is only one. Meditation is not to be thought of as the admission fee for some celestial joy ride. The purpose of meditation, regardless of the technique involved, is to slow down the mind, to bring it from the high rpm's encouraged by our fast paces back to idle speed.

Having learned to separate the mind from the body (at least in our thinking), and having concluded that it is the mind which is somehow responsible for our being, our minds are in nearly constant activity, thinking about one thing or another, worrying or planning or recalling or projecting. After all, time is money, right? And when you waste time/money, you are committing a terrible sin right?.

This continuous mental activity becomes obvious when you sit down and try to hold your attention on one thing.
One thought naturally leads to another. You begin by thinking about, let’s say, a flower, and before long you find you have been thinking about flower arrangements, pesticides, bouquets, mother's day, and ants, and soon the original thought, flower, has wilted to nothingness.

The purpose of meditation isn't to still this continual activity, because it is the mind's special talent to provide associations. The purpose is to learn the difference between all those thoughts and the consciousness which is experiencing them. When you become properly aware of this thing called consciousness which is having these thoughts, only then is your real one point reached, where, unlike the spinning thoughts around you, there is peace.

https://youtu.be/zJ84OvG7IHY

Aikido Documentary - One day her training in Aikido Shinburenseijuku Kumagai Yuna 2nd dan aikikai Aikido ShinburenseijukuShirakawa Ryuji shihan - aikikai 6th dan◆Facebook ：https://www.facebook.com/aikido.shirakawa◆Instagram：ht...

It seems like ages since I played with our fellow students in Cairns.
Miss you guys :-)