(583 posts)
Oct 19, 2011 12:32 am
Practice and the way
DOJO is the way place-- all the stuff we practice in a DO-jo -- the aiki do and ju do and jo do and karate do and ken do and iai do and all the rest, are all just pointers to the DO-- different lamps lighting the way-- as we train in a Do art, the point is to get into harmony with the Way-- to realize the Way in your own physical being and mind and emotions and words-- to surrender yourself, to imbue yourself and to finally forget yourself in process of practice and realization so that we are no longer merely a person doing a DO, a way, but we ourselves are becoming an co-creative expression of the Way-- in the end you don't do aikido, or do judo; you become aikido, you become judo-- you become DO